Development Stack and stuff - 2013 Edition

Dec, 2013

For the past year or two, I had been dabbling with different technologies, frameworks looking for an ideal combination of frontend, backend and development tools. Following are what I tend to use and recommend for both personal and consultancy projects.
I usually customize most of these open-source projects as per my needs

Project Management

Asana - https://asana.com

Database

MongoDB

CMS

Calipso - http://calip.so/

Bulletin Board

NodeBB - http://nodebb.org/

Configuration Management

Etcd - https://github.com/coreos/etcd

Logging and Analysis

Logstash - http://logstash.net
Kibana - http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/kibana
Log.io - http://logio.org

Search

ElasticSearch - http://www.elasticsearch.org
Algolia - http://www.algolia.com

Source Control

Github - http://github.com

AWS - Amazon Web Services

SQS - Simple Queue service
SES - Simple Email Service

Hosting

Rackspace / Amazon
Digital Ocean - https://www.digitalocean.com

Image processing

GraphicsMagick with Node API - http://aheckmann.github.io/gm/

Development Tools/Frameworks/Languages

.NET
- ASP.NET MVC
- ASP.NET WebAPI for REST services - http://www.asp.net/web-api
- Dapper.NET or Simple.Data for SQL ORM's and MongoDB CSharp Driver for MongoDB access
- FluentSecurity for user authentication and roles http://www.fluentsecurity.net/
NodeJS
- NodeProxy for proxy and load balancing service
- Node Cluster for Multi Node process
- Node Express Boilerplate - https://github.com/mape/node-express-boilerplate

Misc Libraries and websites

ASP.NET Razor Helpers - http://www.mikepope.com/blog/documents/WebHelpersAPI.html
OverAPI - http://overapi.com/
JQuery Plugins - http://www.unheap.com/
MicroJs - http://microjs.com/