A publish-subscribe messaging system, which provides message servers for both Node.js and Ruby. Clients are available for all the major typical consumers. The full stack implements several protocols, and comes with a wide range of adapters.
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.
http://mnutt.github.com/hummingbird/
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Hummingbird lets you see how visitors are interacting with your website in real time, using WebSockets.
Hummingbird is built on top of Node.js, a new javascript web toolkit that can handle large amounts of traffic and many concurrent users.
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.
dbrec - Intelligent music recommendations for and from the Web of Data
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dbrec is a new kind of recommender system, entirely based on Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies, providing recommendations for 39,000 artists from DBpedia (and consequently from Wikipedia) based on the relationships that they hold together, either directly (e.g. having played together) or indirectly (e.g. playing the same genre, sharing a common record label or even being associated in a particular cultural movement).
http://www.checkmycolours.com/
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CheckMyColours is a tool for checking foreground and background color combinations of all DOM elements and determining if they provide sufficient contrast when viewed by someone having color deficits.
The W3C published 2 days ago the OWL2 Recommendation, made by 12 documents. A great step further in SW technologies, 5 years after the first OWL Recommendation !
https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/1158/
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TAW3 with a click allows to verify, with just a click, the accessibility of the Web sites that you are visiting, by means of the TAW3 online service (www.tawdis.net) and making use of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 1.0 and WCAG 2.0).
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.
A jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone,
Android, Palm Pre, and other forward-thinking devices.
It features image preloading, animations, themes, swipe detection and callback events. A must-use for light IPhone developement.
Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers (which contain the cookies and caching information).
Seems to be little more usable than wireshark!
http://code.google.com/p/svgweb/
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SVG Web is a JavaScript library which provides SVG support on many browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari. Using the library plus native SVG support you can instantly target ~95% of the existing installed web base.
https://flowplayer.com/tools/index.html
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jQuery Tools is a collection of the most important js user-interface components. It defines itself as THE web js UI library, and explains that "do you really need drag-and-drop, resizable windows or sortable tables in your web applications? Websites are not desktop applications. They are different.". Just a pinch at jQuery UI ?
http://code.google.com/intl/fr/speed/page-speed/
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Google releases Page Speed, a YSlow-like firefox extension. Webmasters and web developers can use Page Speed to evaluate the performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them.
Gantter est un outil en ligne de gestion de projets compatible avec MS Project. Vu le look de l'application, j'en connais un qui aimerait bien se faire racheter par Google :-D
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.
fluidIA is an online design tool for prototyping rich user interfaces. Jakub, author of Wireframe magazine (another reading that I would advice) just launched the project.
Safari's inspector has been redesigned a few months ago, but I didn't notice this. It looks pretty and rather efficient, I am gonna give it a try on our next project.
http://www.recessframework.com/
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The Recess! Framework is built from the ground up to conform to the HTTP protocol. This makes REST a natural fit. From 100s to 505s, from GETs to PUTs, Recess! makes it straightforward for your web apps to play nice
24 ways is the advent calendar for web geeks. Each day throughout December we publish a daily dose of web design and development goodness to bring you all a little Christmas cheer.
http://browserplus.yahoo.com/
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Yahoo has unveiled BrowserPlus, a brower plugin that adds some features to the browser. They explain : "BrowserPlus? is a technology for web browsers that allows developers to create rich web applications with desktop capabilities."
http://snaptrip.appspot.com/
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Snaptripr is a web application hat permits to match Tripr trips to Flickr pictures. Simply authenticate using OpenId on both services, and you'll get a better view of your past trips !
MobilePress is a WordPress plugin that will render your WordPress blog on mobile handsets, with the ability to use customized themes. The plugin also allows specific themes for specific devices / mobile browsers, such as iPhone, Opera Mini, Windows CE Mobile and other generic handset browsers.
typeface.js -- Rendering text with Javascript, <canvas>, and VML
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Typeface is a js library that permits to render text in custom fonts without using flash or images. Else, it uses canvas, VML or SVG.
It has the disadvantage of not allowing to select the text for copy-pasting (while siFr allows it).
SmushIt is an online tool that optimizes images. A firefox extension is available, that allows to optimize all the images of one web page at one stretch.
On prend les mêmes (trolls) et on recommence - <Glazblog/>
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"Vous n'aurez pas besoin d'attendre trois ans pour voir les dernières nouveautés CSS intégrées (essayez donc de faire des CSS Transformations avec Dreamweaver ou Web Expression). Et l'éditeur est en MPL. Alors merde aux trolls, non ?"
C'est tellement vrai !
A google-interface behaves similar to a unix-shell. Several commands are available : mapsearch, translation, blogsearch, newsearch, and of course the traditionnal websearch. Love it.
Cappuccino is an open source Objective-J application framework for developing applications that look and feel like the desktop software users are familiar with. Objective-J is a programming language which is modelled after Objective-C and built entirely on top of JavaScript.
Vitamin Features » Easy Automated Web Application Testing with Hudson and Selenium
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Developing web applications is getting more complex - it’s easy to accidentally break functionality as changes are made. In this article, Ben describes the setup his team uses test their apps as changes are committed; automatically notifying the developers of any problems.
An alternative to sIFR: Facelift Image Replacement | Breathe new life into your web pages
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Facelift Image Replacement (or FLIR, pronounced fleer) is an image replacement script that dynamically generates image representations of text on your web page in fonts that otherwise might not be visible to your visitors. The generated image will be automatically inserted into your web page via Javascript and visible to all modern browsers.
SoundManager 2 is an attempt at providing the sound API which Javascript has been missing. It's a Javascript library which wraps and extends Flash's sound capabilities, bringing cross-platform audio functionality to Javascript.
Opera's new Web Standards Curriculum is a complete course to teach you standards-based web development, including HTML, CSS, design principles and background theory, and JavaScript basics. It already has support from many organizations (including Yahoo! and the Web Standards Project) and universities. The first 23 articles are currently available, with about 30 more to be published between now and late September.
The Multiple File Upload Plugin (jQuery.MultiFile) is a non-obstrusive plugin for the jQuery Javascript library that helps users easily select multiple files for upload quickly and easily whilst also providing some basic validation functionality to help developers idenfity simple errors, without having to submit the form (ie.: upload files).
Merb is an MVC framework that is ORM-agnostic, JavaScript library agnostic, and template language agnostic, preferring plugins that add in support for a particular feature rather than trying to produce a monolithic library with everything in the core.
http://www.thinkvitamin.com/training/webapps/designing-a-web-app-with-character/
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In this presentation, Denise Wilton, designer at Moo.com talks about how to build web apps that not only work well, but have their own special character and personality.
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.
The Massachusetts Commonwealth Chief Technology Strategist Sarah Bourne posted a comment about problems that microformats present for website accessibility.
http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=9942
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All critical bugs and issues have now been resolved in the new 3.x branch of TinyMCE so it was time to release this it as an final/production ready version.
This release contains mostly bug fixes and most of them was not that critical. This release is as stable or more stable as the old 2.1.3 so we recommend users to upgrade.
https://labs.mozilla.com/2007/10/prism/
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Mozilla Labs is launching a series of experiments to bridge the divide in the user experience between web applications and desktop apps and to explore new usability models as the line between traditional desktop and new web applications continues to blur.
https://maps.yahoo.com/mapmixer
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It's easy to mix your own map. Upload an image of your map, use our layering tool to align it with Yahoo! Maps and we'll do the rest! Your map will have all the features of Yahoo! Maps (zooming, panning). You can also syndicate it on your own site or blog.
Castle is an open source project for .net that aspires to simplify the development of enterprise and web applications. Castle helps you get more done with less code. MonoRail is a MVC framework inspired by ActionPack, a paradigm shift to simplicity.
https://www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/suhl/bizer/pub/LinkedDataTutorial/
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There is already a lot of structured data accessible on the Web through Web 2.0 APIs such as the eBay, Amazon, Yahoo, and Google Base APIs. Compared to these APIs, Linked Data has the advantage of providing a single, standardized access mechanism instead of relying on diverse interfaces and result formats.
The recently-announced revisions to the Google search service may require agency Webmasters to do more preparation to get their agency's content properly indexed by the site.
http://www.websemantique.com/
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Ce site est rédigé par une poignée de designers de sites web désireux de mettre en pratique les outils méta-données mises à notre disposition aujourd'hui.
This article presents a little-known use of XUL (Mozilla's user-interface language) and shows how to take advantage of its superior performance and accessibility over HTML while maintaining cross-browser compatibility.
Astuce (pour développeurs web) concernant le correcteur d'orthographe de Firefox - Carnet Web de Pascal
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si en tant que développeurs vous désirez que des champs input soient aussi vérifiés, vous pouvez ajouter l'attribut spellcheck="true" à l'input
https://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xformsfirefox/
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Using the experimental Mozilla XForms extension, you can process XForms in your browser today. While not yet deployed widely enough for use on the public Internet, XForms may be suitable for some intranet applications. This article demonstrates basic XForms processing as currently supported by Firefox and the Mozilla XForms plug-in.
Classer, trier et taguer pour retrouver : les enjeux documentaires du Web (2.0) - Clever Link - Veille - Clever Age
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Quelques réflexions sur les tags, le "Web 2.0" et le Web sémantique...
Wapiti allows you to audit the security of your web applications. It performs "black-box" scans, i.e. it does not study the source code of the application but will scans the webpages of the deployed webapp, looking for scripts and forms where it can inject data. Once it gets this list, Wapiti acts like a fuzzer, injecting payloads to see if a script is vulnerable.
Sintags, The Akelos Framework special syntax for view Templates
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The Akelos Framework uses PHP as its language for templates, but sometimes looping and printing PHP vars becomes a repetitive task that makes your view templates look not beauty. The Akelos Framework doesn't want to force you to learn another useless template language. You have the power of PHP on your templates, but in some cases there is need for a graphic designer to create templates for views, so we have added a very limited syntax that allows you to create simple but powerful templates on WYSIWYG HTML editors.
https://www.ogc.org/pt/06-050r3
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GeoRSS is a simple proposal for geo-enabling, or tagging, “really simple syndication” (RSS) feeds with location information. GeoRSS standardizes the way in which “where” is encoded with enough simplicity and descriptive power to satisfy most needs to describe the location of Web content. It is extensible and upwardly-compatible with more sophisticated formats like the OGC GML (Geography Markup Language®).
