organization devoted to building and operating fan sites for the pony community.</p>
<h2>Open-source credits</h2>
<p>Pony.fm would not be possible without the efforts of the open-source community.
We thank the following projects, in no particular order, for providing the building
blocks for our own.</p>
<ul>
<li><ahref="http://laravel.com/"target="_blank">Laravel</a> - our backend framework of choice</li>
<li><ahref="https://angularjs.org/"target="_blank">Angular.js</a> - our front-end framework of choice</li>
<li><ahref="https://secure.php.net/"target="_blank">PHP</a> - for providing a batteries-loaded language to build great web apps in</li>
<li><ahref="https://getcomposer.org/"target="_blank">Composer</a> - for making the management of PHP dependencies sane</li>
<li><ahref="https://ffmpeg.org/"target="_blank">FFmpeg</a> - for analyzing and dealing with every audio file we can throw at it</li>
<li><ahref="http://guzzlephp.org/"target="_blank">Guzzle</a> - for adding sanity to the art of making HTTP requests</li>
<li><ahref="https://github.com/CodeScaleInc/ffmpeg-php"target="_blank">FFmpegPHP</a> - for providing a sweet PHP interface to ffmpeg</li>
<li><ahref="https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper"target="_blank">Laravel IDE Helper Generator</a> - for making our IDE useful</li>
<li><ahref="https://github.com/In-Touch/laravel-newrelic"target="_blank">Laravel NewRelic Service Provider</a> - for making it easy to monitor Pony.fm''s performance</li>
<li><ahref="https://www.vagrantup.com/"target="_blank">Vagrant</a> - for making cross-platform dev environments possible</li>
<li><ahref="http://atomicparsley.sourceforge.net/"target="_blank">AtomicParsley</a> - for making it easy to work with tags in M4A files</li>
<li><ahref="https://xiph.org/flac/"target="_blank">FLAC</a> - FLAC is best audio codec /)</li>
<li><ahref="http://www.vorbis.com/"target="_blank">OGG Vorbis</a> - A great open-source audio codec</li>
<li><ahref="http://www.audiocoding.com/faac.html"target="_blank">FAAC</a> - for encoding our AAC files</li>
<li><ahref="http://lame.sourceforge.net/"target="_blank">LAME</a> - for encoding our MP3 files</li>
<li><ahref="http://gulpjs.com/"target="_blank">gulp</a> - for being our asset pipeline</li>
<li><ahref="https://nodejs.org/"target="_blank">Node.js</a> - for making JavaScript useful outside the browser</li>
<li><ahref="http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/"target="_blank">SoundManager</a> - for smoothing out cross-browser audio playback</li>
<li><ahref="http://momentjs.com/"target="_blank">Moment.js</a> - for making JavaScript dates sane</li>
<li><ahref="http://getbootstrap.com/"target="_blank">Bootstrap</a> - for its front-end components and making layouts easy</li>
<li><ahref="http://lesscss.org/"target="_blank">LESS</a> - for (almost) making CSS awesome</li>
<li><ahref="https://jquery.com/"target="_blank">jQuery</a> - for being useful all over the place</li>
<li><ahref="https://github.com/mgonto/angularytics"target="_blank">Angularytics</a> - for making Google Analytics useful in a single-page app</li>
<li><ahref="https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-router"target="_blank">UI-Router</a> - for making non-trivial Angular.js routes possible</li>
<li><ahref="https://angular-ui.github.io/bootstrap/"target="_blank">UI-Bootstrap</a> - for making Bootstrap and Angular.js get along</li>