F.E.L.T.

Functionally Equivalent Language Translation

This page is a list of those people who inadvertently helped me get this site up and running by providing really really useful tools, utilities, stuff etc., be it subversion hosting services or PHP utilities or CLI stuff. Whatever.

I have listed them here so that you too may be able to check out the services / features that each has to offer and see if they bring benefit to any projects that you may be working on or thinking of working on in the near future.

I never use other peoples stuff unless I am really pushed for time or dazzled by the quality of the work, so whilst that is no guarantee in itself of the quality of the things listed here, (YMMV of course), they are to me at least going to be used again and againtango icon emotes/face-grin

Hi Nick! tango icon emotes/face-winkkNet are UK based and I've used them for quite a while now not just for this project but others too and apart from their excellent hosting and pricing plans, their technical support is second-to-none in my opinion and I've used a lot of ISP-s trust me!

Word to 'Nick' who's put up with my dumb questions and issues and been nothing but professional and helpful.

I used this after somebody told me about it and after one hour of playing with it I took a big decision to rip out all hand-rolled FELT Javascript code and replace it with this. I admit it, I suck as a graphics guy! A big thanks to the authors of this library for making it easy for even an amateur like me to produce a half-decent looking site with almost no effort. Nice!

When reCAPTCHA let me down because of irritating layout issues, I looked around for the cleanest simplest to get working alternative and this is what I found. It was up and running in under five minutes and that's a plus point in my book any day

_Copyright 2011 Cory LaViska for A Beautiful Site, LLC. (http://abeautifulsite.net), Dual licensed under the MIT / GPLv2 licenses

I love these little icons, tango icon emotes/face-grin they make me smile!

These icons are used in the toolbar and here and there throughout the site. If you ever need a good set of icons in a hurry, I recommend these. They cover most options of most programs and can be used anywhere.

I decided early on that I wanted to use Markdown syntax early on for the larger text portions of the site to make it more natural to create the mass of documentation I knew was coming. Imagine my delight when I found that Michel Fortin has written an absolutely first class PHP wrapper (with extensions) around it.

To sum it up, It just works. No sooner had I incorporated it into my code than the future started looking a lot brighter when it came to producing the content. Awesome effort, thanks Michel.

The fruits of this great project have allowed me to produce a rudimentary 'REPL' for you to examine ode and play with code and have it syntax coloured to help you see what you are doing.

I have not made any real significant changes to the stock out-of-the-box distribution, I use the standard 'scheme' language colouring option as that is pretty much good enough; FELT is a LISP dialect and Scheme and LISP have the same syntactical for, s-expressions.

Before finding Twitter Bootstrap I had used jQuery/UI a lot but decided that I didn't like the way things were heading so I ripped it out. However, I still proudly mention it here because jQuery rocks whichever way you look at it! And the Twitter Bootstrap library needs some parts of it to function anyway, they know it rocks too! I am also a long-term Drupal developer and I love jQuery in a good clean nerd kind of way!tango icon emotes/face-wink because it just does what you want with minimum code and fuss. Nice work!

This site has provided most of the little incidental graphics and images here and there throughout the site. Thanks to all those talented people who allow less talented people to use their work for the sheer pleasure of it. What goes around come around, thank you my friends and keep up the good work!

I tried a few solutions but the sheer ease with which this integrated into all the pages and also allowed me to create a FELT specific colouring scheme means that I will be using this library a lot in the future.

I am a big big fan of typography, probably need to get out more. However, I have nearly 7500 fonts on my Linux box and I wanted a really nice easy to read font for the site and I got it and the ease of installation as well across browsers

For reference, the font used is called Metrophobic.

First, thanks to Jocelyne and George for putting up with me as in-animate objects (mainly my Linux box!) made me scream and shout when things got interesting at times, mainly at my own inability to realise how dumb I am and I can be. I know another word for that but this is a family show.

Thanks to my co-hackers who've helped me here and there with this and that. Thanks to Andy 'Dij-Master' Mac for being an awesome friend and helping with site feedback and stuff. 'Word' to Marc'O for showing me Twitter Bootstrap. Thanks everybody that helped whether they knew it or not.