Software

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Softwares

Tornado : light web framework used to set up REST services of Newebe.
Couchdb : light document database (NoSQL).
Javascript : client is in the browser.
Coffee Script : allow easier javascript development with a lighter syntax.
Stylus : allow easier CSS development with a lighter syntax.
Cake : needed to convert easily coffescript files to javascript files.
UglifyJS : to optimise generated javascript.

Javascript Libraries

jQuery : easier javascript development and add some FX.
jQuery-ui : to have complex UI.
date.js : easier date usage.
Backbone.js : MVC-like framework to build more maintanable applications.
Underscore.js : easier list manipulation and template rendering (backbone.js dependency).
json2.js : easier JSON handling (backbone.js dependency).
showdown : for markdown rendering on client side
fileuploader : for picture uploading

Python Libraries

couchdbkit : Couchdb "ORM"
restkit : couchdbkit dependency
pycurl : tornado dependency
markdown : for markdown rendering on server side
pil : for image manipulation
pytz : needed to have correct time zones
whoosh : indexation library