Talk In Code

JS Bin is an online tool that allows you to test JavaScript without having to muck about with files. You can just quickly cut and paste some code in and view the output. It is even possible to make the code you are looking at public and then use this as part of an ajax call in another instance of the application.

To get you started there is a nice help section, which also includes a couple of videos.

This tool really impressed me, especially the easy inclusion of several different JavaScript frameworks. I don’t mind testing JavaScript, but sometimes I just want to run a little bit of code on it’s own to see why it isn’t working as I expected it would. This tool fills that much needed gap, and the addition of allowing other people to view your code is a very nice feature. Well worth a look!

Practical PHP Programming is a wiki site that has been set up to provide a central area for PHP developers to contribute to learning and understanding PHP. This site was recently called Hudzilla and was a pretty good online PHP book.

Practical PHP Programming was a pretty good site when it was just static pages, people were always linking to it from the php.net site in order to explain something that wasn’t clear in the documentation. I think that the decision to turn it into a Wiki can only lead to it becoming a better resource.