Toward a Secret Sky

Well, I am always in search of new ways to host and serve code. Recently I have been using bitbucket.org's free service more and more. The benefits as I see them are: Mercurial hosting Ability to branch and publish any number of branches (a la launchpad) Plain web space for hosting generated documentation etc, with built-in wiki User interface entirely geared around source code I don't have to host it myself Responsive and generous developers Now if we were to compare this to some other things, we might have: (and please correct me if I am wrong). Mercurial Publish many branches Web space Wiki Hosted by someone else for free Bitbucket.org Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Launchpad.net No Yes No No Yes Google code No No No Yes Yes Self-hosted Trac Yes No Yes Yes No There are features that I would still really like, and the great developers are implementing them as we speak. The most exciting is the idea of an API where third-party applications could be written to do just about anything. S...

Ok, I'll start by saying that I love jQuery as much as the next developer, and every contributor has my eternal thanks, but there is a problem. Plugin development goes crazy, in that many similar plugins are released, and often these are just modifications including other sets of modifications. There must be a better way, like isn't this what version control is made for? Here is an excerpt of http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins#Forms * Autocomplete by Dylan Verheul Autocomplete with caching to limit server requests and other options. * jQuery Autocomplete Mod by Dan G. Switzer Modification of Autocomplete plugin with enhancements and bug fixes. * Modified Auto-complete by Anjesh Tuladhar Auto-complete plugin extended for auto-completing multiple words in the same text input * Autocomplete by Jörn Zaefferer Heavily improved Dylan Verheul’s initial plugin, integrating modifications by Dan G. Switzer and Anjesh Tuladhar. * jQuery Autocomplet...