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There are some amazing tools available for developers on the web, from pretty-printing your code to validating it, from colour palettes for visual impairments to tools for testing APIs. Here are some of my favourites. Stack Overflow This is the go-to site for questions and answers about coding. It has questions and answers on just about every programming language that you can think of - PHP, Python, Java, Ruby, JavaScript, jQuery, Angular, and more. And every environment you can think of - Windows, iOS, Android, and so on. And every mark-up and styling language - HTML, XML, CSS, and Sass. Stack Overflow has an awesome community of people willing to help complete strangers, which I think is amazing. I have learnt so much from reading Stack Overflow, and I haven't asked that many questions on there, because many of the common questions have already been asked and answered. User Experience This is the equivalent site to Stack Overflow for asking user experience questions (usability an...

Getting Angular to work with a Moodle webservice I am building an application to get Json data from a Moodle web service, and using AngularJs to display the data in the app. There are multiple functions on the Moodle webservice, so I need multiple controllers in the Angular app. I am using Visual Studio and Cordova to write the app. I have come up with a solution for getting the token from Moodle, storing it using jstorage, and displaying it on the various panes of the single-page mobile app. Step 1. Get web token from where you stored it in jstorage (in myApp.js) moodleUrl = 'https://moodle.yourwebsite.com/webservice/rest/server.php' ; session = $ . jStorage . get ( 'session' , '' ); // syntax: $.jStorage.get(keyname, "default value") moodlewsrestformat = 'json' ; wstoken = session ; concatUrl = moodleUrl + '?moodlewsrestformat=' + moodlewsrestformat + '&wstoken=' + wstoken + '&wsfunction=' ; Step...