O'Reilly Radar:
You open the letterbox. Inside are four interesting links covering politics, mobile business, Javascript, and MySQL:The Minimal Compact (Adam Greenfield) -- a manifesto on "open source constitutions for post-national entities". Sample: "Of interest are alternatives that are designed from the beginning to: Ensure the greate (Read More)
O'Reilly Radar:
Google released App Engine less than a year ago (Radar post). It was the first chance for external developers to use the power of Google's servers. The powerful platform supported Python and was free (within limits). It now supports 45,000 apps and those apps get over 100 million page views per month day. Those pageviews we (Read More)
OStatic blogs:
OStatic has recently been enjoying some very healthy traffic and growth, and I'd like to thank all of the members, readers and writers who make our site and this blog lively every day. It's a labor of love. One of our main charters on the OStatic blog is to regularly provide roundups and individual reviews of good open sour (Read More)
Submitted by Robdiana
from Google Reader:
During the last six weeks we have been researching the state of software development processes and a number of very interesting trends have become apparent. These trends and the results of our research will be documented in the research report Best Practices In Software Development Processes slated for Q1 2009. But I just (Read More)
OStatic blogs:
Ever since Google unveiled its open source Chrome browser, I and others have been wondering what its stance toward Mozilla Firefox will be going forward. Firefox, of course, has proven to be the little engine that could among really ubiquitous open source applications, with more than 20 percent market share now. Firefox has (Read More)
Ajaxian:
The UML diagram above is from Matt Prokes as he creates Java-like interfaces for JavaScript.He has a full example:An example of an object which requires an implementation of the interface. PLAIN TEXTJAVASCRIPT: //This code is valid, and the execution will be successful.function executeInterface1(executeThis){ var castedIfa (Read More)
TheServerSide.com: News:
Versant Corporation, a publicly traded commercial object database company, joins forces with the db4o open source object database community. Versant, in recognition of the value db4o has brought to object database visibility, will support the technology and community on a going forward basis.
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rss / new tutorials:
Design patterns are just for Java™ architects -- at least that's what you may have been led to believe. In fact, design patterns are useful for everyone. If these tools aren't exclusive to architecture astronauts, what are they, and why are they useful in PHP applications? This article explains. (Read More)
Riding Rails - home:
Phusion Passenger aka mod_rails has been on a tour de force lately and rightfully so. It makes Rails deployment so much simpler and combined with REE faster and with less memory overhead. So I’m really happy to see that lots of the hosting companies in the Rails world are adopting it and making it available to their custome (Read More)
raganwald:
Rails 2.2 is out, and one of the new features is that Chris Wanstrath’s #try is baked into ActiveSupport. What this means is that for people writing Ruby on Rails applications, the debate over nil handling is over. That’s right, the debate is over. No andand, no turtles, no ergo, no rescue nil.
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Scripteka:
]]>This Scriptaculous effect provides image wipes that you'd normally implement using Flash. Designate a DIV that contains your image and this will replace it with the image you specify using one of the available modes:Vertical splitHorizontal splitWipe rightWipe leftWipe upWipe downPage FlipHorizontal panelsVertical panels (Read More)
symfony Project Blog:
Previously on JobeetWith the addition of feeds on Jobeet, job seekers can now be informed of newjob posts in real-time.On the other side of the fence, when you post a job, you will want to have thegreatest exposure possible. If your job is syndicated on a lot of smallwebsites, you will have a better chance to find the right (Read More)
Submitted by Reddyjeevan
from Google Reader:
LWATCDR writes "First we got 64-bit Flash; then the beginnings of 64-bit Wine; now Sun is providing a 64-bit Java plugin. For most people there is nothing to hold you back from running 64-bit Linux."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Submitted by Robdiana
from Google Reader:
Six Apart has launched a preview of a new product called “Motion” that brings together a number of the year’s hottest trends – microblogging, aggregation, and portable identities – into one software package that is installed server side for users of Movable Type. As you can see in the sample below, Motion features a simple (Read More)
Submitted by Robdiana
from Google Reader:
You may have seen today’s news announcing the next generation of Yahoo! Mail — rolling out a “smarter inbox”experience to users. One way to make an inbox smarter: make applications that can work within it, opening up Yahoo! Mail to content and services built outside the Yahoo! network. We’ve talked here before about the Ya (Read More)