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Django v1.0 cheat sheet
A very nice cheat sheet for Django v1.0. Had originally been released for 0.96 and now updated.
Http Sub-Sessions for different browser tabs (in IWebMvc2)
IWebMvc2 now includes the code to allow different (sub)sessions for each tab in your web application. The approach and the code is explained in detail.
Dojo Developer Day or Two
This weekend I got a chance to go two Dojo Developer Meetups and was impressed with all the things I saw the community doing with Dojo. Having been around since ~2004, Dojo has built up an impress list of functionality that makes every type of Ajax application easier to build and maintain. I wrote up my notes from the two days and break down the project into its piece to make it easier to swallow.
Create your own Facebook in minutes
Elgg is an open, flexible social networking engine, designed to run at the heart of any socially-aware application. Building on Elgg is easy, and because the engine handles common web application and social functionality for you, you can concentrate on developing your idea.
Download free CSS templates
Download free standards compliant CSS templates.Web Template Source has a huge selection of web templates, available for immediate download. You will find well-categorized HTML, Fireworks, Flash and PHP Nuke templates.
Introducing Lucene.Net
Lucene.Net is a high performance Information Retrieval (IR) library, also known as a search engine library. Lucene.Net contains powerful APIs for creating full text indexes and implementing advanced and precise search technologies into your programs. Some people may confuse Lucene.net with a ready to use application like a web search/crawler, or a file search application, But Lucene.Net is not such an application, it a framework library. Lucene.Net provides a framework for implementing these difficult technologies yourself. Lucene.net makes no discriminations on what you can index and search, which gives you a lot more power compared to other full text indexing/searching implications, you can index anything that can be represented as text. There are also ways to get Lucene.net to index HTML, Office documents, PDF files and much more.
Designing a CMS Architecture
When faced with the alternative between an off-the-shelf CMS or a custom development, many companies pick solutions like ezPublish or Drupal. In addition to being free, these CMS seem to fulfill all possible requirements. But while choosing an open-source solution is a great idea, going for a full-featured CMS may prove more expensive than designing and developing your own Custom Management System.
prettyPhoto a jQuery lightbox clone
A jQuery lightbox clone with additional functionality. The best out there !
Google Chrome is impressive, really.
It’s been three weeks since Google released their new browser “Chrome” to windows users. Google’s dominance in web really helped them to push this ‘yet-another-browser’ easily to hundreds of people. Wait! Did I say ‘yet-another-browser’!? No, Google chrome is not a ‘yet-another-browser’, but it’s a new beginning to the world of web 2.0 computing. Yup! Chrome has redefined the way browsers are interacting with users and with the pages.
Suite, best of breed or in-house development
In this blog I want to write about the pros and cons when choosing between suite, best of breed or in-house development when setting up the infrastructure of a developer shop. I will reason why we chose best of breed and the argumentation that lead to this conclusion.This blog will contain most references an examples to products on the Microsoft .NET platform, but the content was written to be read by anyone including non-developers.
5 plugins and tips to secure your Wordpress blog
Webmasters and bloggers often have a huge fear of being hacked, and the more a website is popular, the more it is exposed to various hacking attempts. Here are 5 tips and plugins that will allow you to secure your Wordpress install, because prevention is always better than cure!
How do the Javascript frameworks do it?
Let's take a second and appreciate just how much work must go into building a popular open source JS toolkit.
How spammers spams your blog comments
As a blogger, everyday I’m receiving hundreds of spam comments. I was very curious about how spammers can sends so many automated comments to thousands of blogs. Here’s an exemple which demonstrate how to spam blogs using PHP and Curl.
Google Chrome: Firefox, Chrome already fighting over who's faster
The real browser war isn't between Microsoft and anyone. It's between Firefox and Google Chrome, jostling to become the aftermarket browser of choice. Yesterday, a Google engineer assured News.com that the company's new open-source browser processes webpages much faster than Mozilla Firefox — "Many times faster. I guarantee you." Mozilla engineers released their own test results that show Firefox with a slight performance edge. But the latest test, run independently by News.com, skews the other way.
Is google chrome under / partially reporting RAM usage ?
Memory utilisation as showed in google chrome task manager seems to be consistently lesser than that shown by the windows task manager.
FrogCMS - Content Management Simplified
There are literally thousands of content management systems available on the web. Many of them free, many of them not. Each boasting more compelling features than the next. In the disarray of all the competition I found a little content management system named simply FrogCMS. Features are great, interface is awesome, and simplicity is its middle name.Vanilla - Open Source Web Forum
Working with a web forum can be a dreadful task. Setting up categories, permissions, and public/password posts can hurt. Trying to attract users to your forum is hard enough, why should setting up the forum be the same? Replace those fears with a scoop of Vanilla.Merb Camp 2008 announced!
Merb, the newest and awesomest Ruby framework is finally having its first conf/camp to celebrate version 1.0!Piwik - The Best Open Source Google Analytics Alternative
Ever have a surge in traffic but not realize what happened until four hours later because you're using Google Analytics? Perhaps you want to show off your traffic in an attractive and easily embeddable format? Let me introduce you to the truly analytical world of a great open source program named Piwik.Web 2.0 Development With Aptana Studio
Aptana Studio is an IDE for creating web 2.0 applications. It can be downloaded and run as an application or run in the Eclipse IDE. The IDE can be purchased as a professional edition or downloaded in an open source community edition. The open source community edition boasts over 1,300,000 downloads with a combined total including the professional version of more than 2,200,000 downloads to date. This application is designed and optimized for web development languages such as JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, and PHP, with other plugins available including Adobe AIR and iPhone development.Writing Portlets in Wicket using the OpenPortal Portlet Server
There is a nice integration of OpenPortal (the Sun Java System We Made This Name So Long You Can't Say It Portal Server by any other name) with NetBeans, for one-click deployment. But OpenPortal is missing the Apache Portlet Bridges stuff necessary to use the wicket portlet. So I wrote an implementation last night. It's not beautiful, and is currently tied to Wicket, but it will get you going.Pagination Class for ASP.NET MVC
A class for creating different types of pagination link in Asp.Net Mvc.JavaFX complete guide
JavaFX is being extremely popular as Rich Internet Application development technology in the present development world. Read complete information along with example program. Also download the PDF magazine free.Mozilla concept series : Future of Web browser
Mozilla, the organization behind Firefox, has recently announced a concept series to discuss about the future directions for Firefox browser. This announcement has stimulated few discussions on blogosphere. Many people are already giving their views/ideas on what the coming versions of Firefox should have.As a web developer, I would like to see some features for web development to be included in the future versions of the browser.What is the next Killer App of Ruby?
"The JAOO conference recently released the following video of Chad Fowler, Marcel Molina Jr. and Glenn Vanderburg answering the question “What is the next killer app for Ruby?” The video starts by them diving into a flattering discussion about Adhearsion as a candidate."Introducing Alfresco Labs 3
John Newton, Alfresco's co-founder and CTO, talks about Alfresco Labs 3. Alfresco is the open source alternative for Enterprise Content Management and this week announced support for the Microsoft Office SharePoint protocol.Top 10 Javascript slideshows, carousels and sliders
When you’re looking for a very eye-candy way to display your content, slideshows are always a good choice. Here’s our selection of 10 cross-platform, absolutely stunning slideshows, carousels and sliders, based on Mootools, JQuery, Yahoo! User Interface, and Script.aculo.us.What's New in Seam 2.1 - An interview with Peter Muir
In this podcast interview, Peter Muir previews some of the upcoming features in Seam 2.1, including support for GWT and Wicket, improved security enhancements for identity management, permissioning, and single sign-on, as well as better support for RESTful application development.Can Rails Affect Your Business’ Bottom Line?
Can Rails affect your business’ bottom line? An ROI analysis for Ruby on Rails applications.How to get started with web development? A complete Guide.
How to start with web development? I am not expert but here in this post I would like to describe a few steps that might help one climb the ladder of web development fast. Kindly feel free to add to this blog post if you think some other methodology might be better off.Greylisting blog comments
Greylisting is a system used to combat SPAM that’s quite ingenious, and at least on my mail server, is 99% effective. I’ve written a a greylisting/tarpitting Django-app for this..Apache Roller 4.0 supports Groovy
Apache Roller 4.0 supports Groovy in 3 different ways: a Groovy client for the Roller API, Groovy code as a template renderer to produce HTML directly with the HTMLMarkupBuilder and as a template renderer through Groovy Server Pages (GSP).WSO2 Mashup Server 1.5 Released
The latest release of the WSO2 Mashup Server with data services, WS-security, Google gadget and OpenID support and it's own dashboard for hosting gadgets is available for download under the Apache License.3 Great Open Source Software Website Enhancements
Open source software is software in which the source code is available to the general public for use and/or modification from its original design. These three open source software downloads are all free and can be great additions to your site, making for a better user experience, more return visits and more unique visitors per month.phpCheckZ 1.1.0 Released
Today we have released phpCheckZ 1.1.0. There are quite a few changes and several bug fixes in this release. We have added a new bridge for phpBB 3.0.1. We cleaned up the documentation...