Social Media Toolbox for Developers

With the web centered around social media, there is huge potential for developers and designers to easily share, collaborate and find useful information. There are many great tools that help you in web and software development. Whether you are starting with web development or designing advanced applications, these tools and resources will be of great help. Following are some of the prolific social media resources available to designers and developers.

Social Communities

Dzone: Dzone is a free link-sharing community for developers. Users can browse, search and comment on links. Based on the voting on upcoming links what gets promoted is determined.

Good Tutorials: Good-Tutorials is a website which holds a wide range of various user submitted tutorials in many design and development related topics.

Stack Overflow: Stack Overflow is a community for developers and programmers for asking questions and getting answers – regardless of platform or programming language. If you are struck with a programming error or have general questions about programming and development, Stack Overflow is a good option to consider.

Digg – Programming: Digg is a community based web site for people to discover and share information from anywhere on the web. It’s one of the biggest online destinations to find the best stuff voted by many people across the world.

Reddit – Programming: Reddit is another cool website for sharing social news. It has a growing community of developers that discuss programming and alike topics. Reddit is a great place to share useful resources.

TopCoder: On TopCoder, programmers compete in a variety of skill-based challenges and get rewarded with prize money, recognition etc., The better you perform, the better will be your TopCoder ranking.

Academic Earth: A prolific web site for free online course lectures from leading universities on a wide array of topics. If you want to learn web development, a specific programming language or programming methodoligies Academic Earth is the place to go. It provides you with educational content for free.

Social web tools

GitHub: GitHub is one of the best tools for collaborative social software development. When you have a team building a product, the secure source code hosting, development news feeds, inline editing, network graph on GitHub come very handy.

Yahoo Pipes: With Yahoo Pipes, you can quickly mashup content from around the web. Simple commands can be combined together to create output that meets your needs. For instance, enhance your website with widgets. Or, combine many feeds into one and then sort them.

Launchpad: Launchpad is a software collaboration platform which provides code hosting, bug tracking, reviews, mailing lists etc.,

SourceForge: If you are looking for open source software, SourceForge is the one-stop site. It’s holds a massive collection of open source projects. SourceForge gives users the ability to browse, share and develop open source projects for free. It has been the hub for building open source projects for many years now.