An introduction to the JavaScript programming language, by Marijn Haverbeke. Very complete, extensive, and well-written resource. Must read for every intern in web developement ! :-)
A js graphical library for drawing charts. It stands on top of jQuery, MooTools or Prototyp, depending on the host project fundations, and provides a large serie of nice colored animated charts.
A presentation which explains how semweb people should work to create more user-friendly tools. There is a common dream about the semantic web : it should help develop omnipotent applications. Instead of this, the author explain that developers should concentrate on creating useful software, using semweb technologies. Meaningful.
http://www.roadsend.com/home/index.php?pageID=compiler
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A compiler for PHP programs, which allows to compile PHP application as common desktop binaries: non-required php executable, eventually microserver embedded, php-gtk support, etc.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bnbbfjbeaefgipfjpdabmpadaacmafkj
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Firebug Lite easily integrated into Chrome. Even if I am not a fan of Chrome, because of the omnipotence of Google, I find this tool very useful as a debug facility.
https://github.com/anthonyshort/csscaffold
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A dynamic CSS framework inspired by Shaun Inman's CSS Cacheer. It's aimed at experienced CSS developers - it gives you the tools to create great CSS easily. It abstracts some repetitive and annoying flaws of the language to make it easier to create and maintain, all while giving you the benefits of caching.
Gearman provides a generic application framework to farm out work to other machines or processes that are better suited to do the work. It allows you to do work in parallel, to load balance processing, and to call functions between languages. It can be used in a variety of applications, from high-availability web sites to the transport of database replication events. In other words, it is the nervous system for how distributed processing communicates.
One type of asynchronous and worker solution I could use in the implementation of asynchronousity in Symfony's media plugin
http://blogs.sun.com/netbeansphp/entry/symfony_support_finished
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The work for supporting for Symfony PHP Framework in NetBeans 6.8 is finished. This should make Netbeans the default editor for PHP developers, far before Eclipse.
As for me, I'll stick to Textmate :)
http://www.cahaya-project.org/
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CAHAYA CMS is an open source management system built on top of the Zend Framework, which makes building websites extremely easy.
Even if interesting, the project is still very young and suffers some conception limitations - the lack for structured content is one of the greatest, in my opinion.
Symfony-Zone » HelloWorld example with Flex and Symfony
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A simple guide on how to use Flex from within Symfony. The tutorial helps creating a simple client with a text field and a button, and shows all the mechanism involved in the communication to the Symfony backend server.
http://spindrop.us/2009/02/18/database-versus-files-for-images/
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Dave gives his feedback on a long-debated developement topic : storing files in database or on the filesystem.
"I had been serving images via the database. Immediately when I switched to the filesystem I saw a huge benefit. Not just a drop in database connections, but overall ?zippiness? in the site.
We?ll see how well this performs in the real world, but I am quite sure that I learned my lesson."
All this makes sense : files are not data, they are just files. A filesystem is designed for hosting files. A database is designed for hosting data. Don't mess things.
Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Introducing Bespin
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Bespin is the new prject of the Mozilla Labs. It is an online code editor. The first 0.1 release includes support for basic editing features, such as syntax highlighting, large file sizes, undo/redo, previewing files in the browser, importing/exporting projects, etc.
"The news is that the Symfony support will be part of NetBeans 7.0. We are going to start work on it very soon. I hope
that it will be a part of continual build this year and community can comment the support and work with us to finish it
in the best possible quality and usability."
EditArea is a free javascript editor for source code, which allows to write well formated source code with line numerotation, tab support, search & replace (with regexp) and live syntax highlighting (customizable).
https://www.clever-age.com/veille/publications/livres-blancs/livre-blanc-frameworks-php-pour-l-entreprise.html
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Forte d’une expérience éprouvée des frameworks PHP majeurs, Clever Age publie aujourd’hui un livre blanc au sujet des frameworks PHP pour l’entreprise.
https://www.opera.com/products/dragonfly
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Welcome to Opera Dragonfly alpha, the foundations of Opera's upcoming Developer Tools. Debug JavaScript, inspect CSS and the DOM, and view any errors – Opera Dragonfly makes developing using Opera easier than ever, both on your computer and mobile phone.
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/introduction-to-opera-dragonfly/
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We have unleashed the Dragonfly! Opera Dragonfly is Opera's all-new set of developer tools, designed to give developers a lightweight-but-powerful application that provides effective mechanisms for web standards debugging and problem solving without slowing down the browser, and fits in nicely with the development workflow.
https://www.croustillant.ch/news/08-24-2007/28/late-static-bindings-expl.html
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Late Static Binding (LSB, yes, not LSD) is an OO feature that is meant to be implemented in PHP 6, and maybe even backported to PHP 5. This article will describe what LSB is, what problems it's supposed to solve and how.
YSlow analyzes any web page and generates a grade for each rule and an overall grade. If a page can be improved, YSlow lists the specific changes to be made.
http://www.plaxo.com/api/openid_recipe
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This is a step-by-step tutorial guide for implementing OpenID consumer-side support with a web site that already has users with accounts. It will explain how to easily let new users sign up for an account on your site using their OpenID URL and how to let existing users attach their OpenID(s) so they can sign in using them.
https://www.koziarski.net/archives/2007/5/28/clever-caching
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Expiry is a Pain. If you could somehow avoid expiring all the ‘stuff’ you’re caching, your life would be much much easier. The key to getting away with this is to pick a key which completely encapsulates the resource you’re caching, and also ensures that if anything relevant changes, the key changes.
Ext JS Blog - » Building a desktop application with Ext, AIR, Aptana and Red Bull
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Ext JS is an excellent framework for building web applications that have desktop like functionality in a web browser. But what if you could take your JavaScript powered application and run on the desktop like any other native application?
Asshole Driven development (ADD) - Any team where the biggest jerk makes all the big decisions is asshole driven development. All wisdom, logic or process goes out the window when Mr. Asshole is in the room, doing whatever idiotic, selfish thing he thinks is best. There may rules and processes, but Mr. A breaks them and people follow anyway.
https://johnresig.com/blog/javascript-18-progress/
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In case you haven't been following the progress being made on JavaScript 1.8 here's a quick overview of what's already landed in the latest Firefox 3 nightlies.
http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/full_java_stack_in_ubuntu
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A full Java developer stack with tools is available from today in the Multiverse repository for Ubuntu 7.04 (that's Feisty Fawn). It includes JDK 6, the Glassfish Java EE server, the NetBeans development environment and the Java DB database.
