Coffeescript

So, we've got HAML for HTML, SASS for CSS, but now let's make JavaScript braceless. In comes coffeescript!
http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/

I'm not quite sure how it holds up when you need to debug stuff (finding the right line numbers etc)

New IDE

I'm trying out jetbrains' phpstorm and PyCharm for development. So far, they're pretty cool.

Opening a network folder is very slow though. I have to wait for the whole intellisense to be loaded before I can start editing.

count lines of code

( find ./ -name '*.php' -print0 | xargs -0 cat ) | wc -l

thanks to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1358540/how-to-count-all-the-lines-of-code-in-a-directory-recursively/1359246#1359246