The main purpose of this post is to serve as a reference to myself. Covers sites of learning, tools, assets and manuals. Main language: PHP.

Setting up

• Package manager for PHP: Composer
• GitHub repository hosting

Testing

• BDD testing for PHP: Behat
• Unittesting for PHP: PHPUnit
• Testing within a browser: Selenium (tutorials)

Designing

• OWASP - The Open Web Application Security Project
• PHP: The Right Way
• Database ERD: MySQL Workbench
• Visual design inspiration: Pattern TAP

Not reinventing the wheel

• Kohana PHP framework
• A list of Kohana modules
• Twitter Bootstrap CSS framework
• Themes for Bootstrap CSS framework

Learning something

• SQL indexes explained
• Reddit: /programming
• Reddit: /webdev

Doing good things better

• CoffeeScript - Write wise JavaScript
• SASS - Type less CSS
• phpDocumentator - Document code

Misc tools

• The Toolbox - a list of useful (web) tools/resources/sites for developers
• CSS3 generator