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Setting Up A News-Voting Website With Pligg

This article shows how to set up your own news-voting website with Pligg. Pligg is a content-management system published under the Affero General Public License, and it is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database for storing its data. With a little work you can create your own community and let users vote news to the front page.

Wordpress 2.1 released!

With an improved editor, image uploader, security features, and more. Nice polish added to already great blogging software.

10 Tips That Every PHP Newbie Should Know

10 things you probably didn’t know about PHP A few obvious items in this list, but a number of gems too. Even PHP experts should take a quick look—there ...

Paginating MySQL Data with PHP

Have a large MySQL dataset that you would like to display on your website, but don't want to bog down your users' connections with large HTML renderings? Try paginating your data.

How to solve the digg effect

Yes, Duggmirror is very helpful, but what about a permanent solution offered by digg? This links to a mock-up of what digg could do to solve this once and for all.

How NOT to Code a Website

This page's perl code is exploding all over the place. They even have their admin password visible! Talk about a security risk.

Building a Simple Search Engine with PHP

A little while ago, I was working on an intranet site for a mid-sized company. As the site grew in both size and popularity, the assigner requested me to extend the site with a search feature. Since one of the rules of the intranet was that all logic code should be written in-house, using an existing open source engine was not an option.

CRAZY cool javascript : Edit whatever you want on ANY page : Images, Text.

This is cool! GO to any web page, clear the address bar, and paste this: "javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0" without the quotes and hit enter. Feel free to edit whatever you want on the page!

U.S. Speed Trap Exchange - Learn the location of speed traps in your area

Ever been pulled over by a cop in a speed trap? On this site you can exchange information as to the location of speed traps wherever your travels may take you. They also provide scanner feed links to listen to live audio feeds of police in the area of your choice.

Can Digg Users Create the Next MySpace?

Inspired by Kevin Rose's $200 investment, and its success, I ask this: Can the collaborative social news phenomenon Digg.com inspire the rapid development of a MySpace-like social network created, collaboratively, by Digg users designers, programmers, beta testers , using open source web infrastructure?

Digg.com created for only $200.00

In 2003, Kevin Rose had a big idea. He went to Elance.com to post a project and look for a PHP programmer, he selected Owen Byrne Elance username: permafrost and worked with him to build Digg.com for $10 hr. Listen to Kevin's presentation

Visualizing Pi π

Nice way to visualize Pi...

Sometimes MySQL Sucks So Much that You Need PostgreSQL

A website acheived an increase in performance by switching to PostgreSQL.

Operators In PHP

This article is the second of a series of PHP guides that aim at teaching you the basics of PHP programming. Today we are going to discuss different types of operators used in PHP. I hope you remember the basic definition of the operators and operands from my last article PHP Programming Basics .

CodeFetch: Search through the source code in programming books.

Select a language, and search for code. It is as simple as that. The search displays the code along with what book it was found in and provides an Amazon link to buy the book.

Changes to Daylight Savings Time in 2007 may affect your databases; DB2...

In the United States the start and end of daylight savings times are being changed in 2007. Daylight savings time will now start on March 11, 2007 rather than early April and will end on November 4, 2007 rather than late October . Canada has also decided to follow the same schedule. This may impact your databases so read on.

The evolution of a web developer/designer

The popular "The Evolution of a Programmer" joke rewritten for web developers/web designers.

AJAX Debugging with Firebug: web development is fun again!

The creator of Firebug shows that this Firefox extension is much more than just a JavaScript console: modify the page in place, explore and change all object properties, display invisible elements, monitor network requests, and a lot more via Ajaxian

Official Prototype.js API Documentation Unveiled

The team behind the popular JavaScript library, Prototype, have just unveiled the official API documentation site and blog. Along with the launch of the new site, Prototype 1.5 has been released.

Ability to Bend Space-Time a Must

Martin's job duties as a web developer included some murkily-defined responsibilities including "Other Duties as Required." With the PM's request, Martin learned that "Other Duties" actually means either clairvoyance or independence from space-time.

PHP Programming Basics

This article is the first of a series of PHP guides that aim at teaching you the basics of PHP programming. In previous articles we have covered topics like "How to install PHP", "How to install Apache on Windows" and "PHP, MySQL, Apache installers". By now, I hope you would have set up your system to start actual PHP programming.

Introduction to Python - Part 1

Python is a very handy tool whenever you need to put together a small script that manipulates some files in a few minutes. Moreover, it is also useful for bigger projects, as you get all the power you from data structures, modularization, object orientation, unit testing, profiling, and the huge API.

The Web Developers List of Resources.

This page is huge. Everything you can imagine form FF plugins to Ruby. This page has it all.

10 CSS Tips from a Professional CSS Architect

When newbies get started with CSS/XHTML based web design, most of their work is focused on just getting the page to look like the Photoshop comp. While this translation is important to keep the client happy, considerable thought process should be involved in creating the semantic markup and marrying that with CSS. CSS is not a collection of hacks..

The Problem With C++

MIT's Technology Review recently interviewed Bjarne Stroustrup in a two-part article part one, part two . You may know Bjarne as the inventor of the C++ programming language. Indeed, he even maintains a comprehensive C++ FAQ that answers every imaginable C++ question.

jQuery 1.1 Released

jQuery, the succinct chainable JavaScript framework, achieved it's first birthday and the release of its massively improved version 1.1.

Download of the Day: Profanity Filter Greasemonkey for Firefox

Clean up all the **** from the ******* internet with the Profanity Filter script for Greasemonkey. By default, the script scans every page you visit against a pre-defined list of naughty words, then replaces any matches with little asterisks! ******* awesome!

A Digg feature I'd like to see

Next to every comment we see a number. For example: +125. But what does this number mean? Did the comment recieve 125 unanimous “thumbs up” or did it get 250 “thumbs up” and 125 “thumbs down”- revealing a Digg debate? Simply put: I'd like to see the number of "ups" v. "downs" on a given comment.

Why Doesn't My ActionScript Work? -- Hilarious Forum Post!

If only Actionscript _really_ worked like this....

Google releases MacFUSE !

FUSE makes it possible to implement a very functional file system in a normal program rather than requiring a complex addition to the operating system, An often-cited example of such a useful file system is sshfs, which until now was not available on Mac OS X....

A First Person Shooter in javascript?

With the Canvas tag, it's now possible. This article includes an emulator that loads roms and many proof of concept applications using this tag

Decrypt MD5 Hashes

This site can encrypt and decrypt md5 hash codes!

Top 100 Duplicate Digg Comments from 2006

With all of the “But will it blend” and “Pic it or it didn't happen” comments on digg.com I though it would be interesting to tally up the duplicate comments from the last year. My script ran through 1,255,627 comments from the ~30,000 most popular stories of last year. I also put together a Digg Cliche Comment Generator from this data.

Web developers: No more IE hacks!

Microsoft has yet again failed with IE7 to extend a helping hand towards web developers. They have yet again failed to improve IEs standard compliance. Web developers are living in html/css/javascript hell where we have to introduce extra hacks just to make a standards compliant site run on IE. Browsers should support standard compliant websites!

The Coolest Javascript Website trick ever!

All you have to do is follow these 4 steps basically go to a site and enter in a piece of java script code . the page reloads and the website graphics go NUTS - all the jpegs fall off their placeholders and fly around in a huge tornado. works on any site - which is the site with the funniest results that you can find?

A Mental Trick for Programmers & Coders

Whenever you are confronted with some code that you are trying to understand, imagine yourself re-typing it by hand. This is a neat mental trick you can use to make sure you're really understand the code you're looking at, and not just glancing over it.

Learning Assembly Language Programming

Good resource page for learning Assembly.

Why learning vi/vim still makes sense in 2007

2006 was vi's 30th anniversary, but it's still alive and kicking. Read about some of vi/vim's power, and why it's still as incredible as it ever was!

Digg.com "Site Down" Feature Suggestion for Digged-Out Sites

"How many times per day, when browsing Digg, do you click on a link to no avail? Plenty for me, and I know that the rest of you have the same problem. I can't believe they haven't implemented this." - Originally suggested by treelovinhippie

Scaling HotOrNot.com

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Why HREF is considerd harmful and why comparing Seaside to Rails is "not even wrong."

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The Joy Of Programming

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Is C# becoming a functional language?

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My Procrastination Hacks

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Closures python,scheme,ruby -- Why are closures so clumsy in python

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Children of a Lesser Python [why Vyper is not the answer]

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Bootstrapping from the pure lambda calculus

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Unix ports of many Plan 9 utilities

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PyPy 1.0 release scheduled for mid-February towards the middle of page

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A Collection of Tcpdump Recipes

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Threads Considered Harmful

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Fix error handling first

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Ask Reddit: What is your favorite CPU instruction set?

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A simple spec on GetACoder, He might need a bigger budget.

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Design and Taste in Open-Source Software

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Phooey: an arrow-based functional UI library for Haskell.

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Fast and Loose Reasoning is Morally Correct [pdf]

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color tail highlighting in emacs - beautiful link to homepage with latest version

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All About Monads

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Old Unix C code: "You are not expected to understand this"; "The value returned here has many subtle implications"

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Great Reading for Helpdesk People

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O'Reilly Database War Stories #1: Second Life

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Ramblings in Realtime by Michael Abrash a Book about Quake

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Why The PC Game Industry Figures Are Baloney

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Halite Studios: Piano Hero

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tags: music piano games software education

Theocacao: Cocoa Tutorial for Absolute Newbies

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tags: cocoa programming mac development tutorial

Open Culture: 45 Free Cutting-Edge Books ... Courtesy of Creative Commons

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tags: books free ebooks downloads opensource

About Openfiler

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GIMP - Tutorials

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tags: gimp tutorial graphics tutorials howto

CSSレイアウトが崩れている時に試す10の処方箋::::::STOPN' LISTEN::::::to the silence:::::::

first posted by dkdk

tags: css tips webdesign web layout

The Pixar Story: Dick Shoup, Alex Schure, George Lucas, Steve Jobs, and Disney

first posted by demafleez

tags: pixar history animation apple business

User experience design resources Dey Alexander Consulting

first posted by jacksonfox

tags: usability design reference resources webdesign

Books - CcWiki

first posted by tonotype

tags: books free creativecommons ebooks opensource

Just One Club Card - Combine All Of Your Club Cards

first posted by woodsa

tags: shopping lifehacks barcode clubcards cards

How to install ANYTHING in Ubuntu!

first posted by vginders

tags: ubuntu linux howto install reference

Quick Guide To Creating RSS Feeds > Understanding an RSS Document

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I Got My Job in SecondLife

People are getting hired in SecondLife without ever meeting in person. Who needs a FirstLife if it pays the bills.

How to fake a Web 2.0 logo

Design Web 2.0 graphics the easy way.

The Next Generation TV Over the Internet

Babelgum is a desktop client that allows their users to watch videos on their computer in a very TV-like experience. You can browse through the channels and choose your favorites show. You can rate the movies, add them to your favorites and watch them later on the video channel.

Linux Shell Scripting Tutorial

This tutorial is designed for beginners who wish to learn the basics of shell scripting/programming plus introduction to power tools such as awk, sed, etc. It is not help or manual for the shell.

Global Collaborative Music Experiment

hephaist0s writes "Last year, 165 bands completed the RPM Challenge: to record an original album 10 songs or 35 minutes during the 28 days of February. The idea is to get musicians to set aside the barriers that stop them from working on their music and simply devote a month to getting it done. This year, more than 300 bands from around the world — including two groups from McMurdo station in Antarctica — have already signed up at www.rpmchallenge.com, and this time the organizers of the challenge have built into the site the ability for bands to share samples with each other. If a band chooses to upload a sample into the Sample Engine, then any other participating group can use it however they like. The possibilities for global collaboration are vast!"

Bush's State of the Union Rhetoric

[daily dose of imagery] moon at the beaches

7 Habits of Highly Annoying Web Designers

"If I see another all-Helvetica site I will probably look up your house on whois.sc and Google Maps and sign you up for lots of spam and laugh at how tiny your hard drive looks from 100,000 feet."

New Firefox Digg Extension Dugged

Adds a duggmirror link to websites listed on digg.com.

Music Industry Considering Unrestricted Digital Music Sales

Major record labels are moving closer to releasing music on the Internet with no copying restrictions a step they once vowed never to take.

The Road to KDE 4: Job Progress Reimagined Screenshots

Have you ever had your taskbar filled with 10 applications all doing something that involved waiting for a task to finish? Document Printing Progress, a K3b CD burning dialogue, Audio Encoding via KAudioCreator, Kopete, KTorrent, checking email in KMail. The new Jobs support in KDE 4 will unify the display of progress for these tasks.

Does Sprawl Make Us Fat?

Ant writes "A Science News article talks about the relationship between city design and health. New cross-disciplinary research is exploring whether urban sprawl makes us soft, or whether people who don't like to exercise move to the sprawling suburbs, or some combination of both." From the article: "So far, the dozen strong studies that have probed the relationships among the urban environment, people's activity, and obesity have all agreed, says Ewing. 'Sprawling places have heavier people... There is evidence of an association between the built environment and obesity.' ... However, University of Toronto economist Matthew Turner charges that 'a lot of people out there don't like urban sprawl, and those people are trying to hijack the obesity epidemic to further the smart-growth agenda [and] change how cities look.' ... 'We're the only ones that have tried to distinguish between causation and sorting... and we find that it's sorting,' [says Turner]. 'The available facts do not support the conclusion that sprawling neighborhoods cause weight gain.'"

Apple touchscreen is NOTHING compared to this!!

Check it out....amazing. Reminds me of Minority Report.

Dell Sells Open Source Computers

Lo5 writes with the excellent news that Dell is selling desktop computers without Windows preinstalled. They are called "n Series"; you can choose from Dimension E520, E521, or C521 desktops. The hard drive comes unformatted.

optimus prime

Morningstar.com - Your 2007 Personal Finance Calendar

[ASP.NET] ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Released

Wie ScottGu berichtet ist es nun soweit - ASP.NET Ajax steht in der offiziellen 1.0 Version kostenfrei zum Download zur Verf��gung. Weshalb ist es interessant? Wegen folgender Zeile "... free framework with 24x7 technical support provided by Microsoft...". http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/01/23/asp-net-ajax-1-0-released .aspx This...

11 tips for growing large scale websites from nothing

Some tips on how to architect and design your site when you start with little content.» Visit DZone Jobs for great people and great opportunities.

Is C# becoming a functional language?

As many of you will be aware, C#3.0 is adding a significant number of new language features. While the overall driving force behind putting these features in is the support of LINQ, the way we do it is strongly inspired by functional programming techniques. This begs the question: Are we making C# a functional language?» Visit DZone Jobs...

How To Get Subversion Revision ID From PHP

First of all identify the file s for which you want to know the revision number from PHP. Then add a property to the file as follows: svn propset svn:keywords Revision file_name.php Now add the following function within php blocks: /** Returns revision number */ function getSCID { $svnid = '$Rev: 43 $'; $scid [...]

How To Get Subversion Revision ID From PHP

Java 2D and JOGL: The Flip Side

n my last blog entry, Easy 2D/3D Mixing in Swing, my goal was to show Swing developers how easy it can be to include 3D content in a desktop application via JOGL and OpenGL. I think we've done a decent job of making things easier for that class of developers, but what if we look at the problem from the other end of the barrel?» Visit...

DotNetCasts - Live! erfolgreich gestartet

Gestern war es dann nun endlich soweit. Der DotNetCasts - Live! wurde das erste Mal ausgetragen und war gut besucht. Statt der veranschlagten Stunde wurde 1,5 Stunden lang eifrigst du unterschiedlichsten Themen geplaudert: - O/R Mapper, NHibernate Performance - .NET Data Provider DB2 - Visual Studio 2005 im Vergleich zu Eclipse sind nur...

Proofpoint and VMWare success in virtual appliances

The Monash Report is reporting on the success of the VMWare virtual appliance program and the Proofpoint antispam appliance. I talked with Proofpoint today, and got a more positive view about VMware’s virtual appliance strategy than I’ve gotten from other appliance vendors. They cite over 500 downloads in the past couple of months,...

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Released

I am really excited to announce that the final release of ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 aka "Atlas" shipped this morning.» Visit DZone Jobs for great people and great opportunities.

Wing Lung Bank Hong Kong not exactly trustable.

Banks, while never perfect corporate citizens usually at least try to behave in a reasonable maner. That is probably why I was fuming with anger at Wing Lung Bank in Hong Kong.I have a credit card from this bank, that was given out as HKIA uses them for their membership cards, and my spouse being a member, just signed me up for it. I normally...

MindTouch releases Deki wiki software as a virtual appliance

Wiki vendor MindTouch has just released their Deki wiki software as a VMWare virtual appliance. MindTouch had been distributing Deki as a hardware appliance for sometime so it’s not surprising to see this come about. MindTouch, the most comprehensive vendor of business wiki solutions, today unveiled MindTouch Deki, the world’s first...

Adventures in Inshoring

Like many small consulting companies, Obtiva was built upon a longstanding relationship with a large, local client. A client like this provides a strong foundation on which to build a business. As I said in my 2006 Retrospective, my primary goal for 2007 is to spend an increasing amount of time in our Wheaton office leading our Rails projects...

VMWare revenue up 101% in 2006

EMC is reporting that revenue for VMWare is up 101% in 2006. VMware grew revenue 101% in 2006 to $709 million. VMware spokesmen attributed the growth primarily to its Infrastructure 3 suite of virtualization software, which provides tools to manage multiple brands of virtual machines, as well as VMware’s ESX Server and Virtual Server...

The Great String versus Numeric URL Key Shootout

In his RailConf keynote, Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson explained his reasoning for preferring numeric entity IDs in URLs as opposed strings. What's your opinion?

Manifest typing "helps"

Runar Jordahl explains how the mainstream languages solve problems - they make your life more complicated. Visual Studio now has the "new" feature Big Integers . Of course you have to declare a number up front to be “big”: There is no automatic overflow mechanism. You just have an exception. Try this in Smalltalk:1000 factorial.Now...

Mongrel 1.0.1 Released !

Alright folks, after nearly a month of pounding and beating up the Mongrel 1.0 RC1 release we’re putting out the official 1.0.1 release.
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Sun Isn't Relevant to Startups

I just watched another Scoble Show interview with Jonathan Schwartz, and it reminded me how frustrated I continue to be with Sun, particularly their Startup Essentials program.
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Rails Cookbook Released OReilly

Rails Cookbook is now released - even covers some Rails 1.2 features.
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The opposite of thinking defensively is thinking creatively.

Pat Maddox wrote a post called "Java People Must Be Stupid," and unfortunately, his irony blew up in his face. The point of his post isn't really that Java people are stupid -- it's that Java people coming to Ruby often seem to arrive with the crippling assumption that their fellow programmers are stupid.
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Introducing the Dojo Tree Widget

This is a little article I'm working on. That walks through using the dojo tree widget. It starts with the conventional HTML method and progresses to the programmatic method. I'm having some trouble with weird behavior on drag and drop and hope I can get a little feedback. Thanks
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Paper Prototyping

As interfaces become ever more complex and development schedules seem to get shorter and shorter, you may find it useful to give up your user-interface modeling software for awhile in favor of something simpler. All you need is paper, pens, scissors, and your imagination.
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AnswerU - Built using Rails

Anil Dharni and Brad are the brains behind AnswerU. AnswerU is a solution for fast and accurate answers for university students’ toughest questions. Anil shares some of his experiences in this interview.
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Codestriker - web-based code reviewing

Codestriker is an open-sourced web application which supports online code reviewing and is integrated with SCMs and issue tracking systems. Using Codestriker for your reviews minimizes paper work, ensures that issues, comments and decisions are recorded in a database, and provides a comfortable workspace for actually performing code inspections.
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Using Terracotta DSO

Terracotta DSO is an open source technology created by Terracotta, meant to provide clustering to Java at the virtual machine level. This articles talks about using Terracotta DSO.
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Java 2D and JOGL: The Flip Side

Introduction to XSLT

This tutorial is for developers who want to use Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations XSLT to transform the XML data into other forms without the need for to program in Java™ or other languages.
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Is C# becoming a functional language?

How to Undo a Commit in Subversion

A frequent question that is asked on the Subversion and Subclipse mailing lists is how to undo a change once it has been committed. A variant of the same request is how to get back a file that has been deleted.
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Online poll: should Closures be added to Java?

An online poll at the JavaPolis website asks if you'd like to see closures added to the Java programming language or not . Let your voice be heard!
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Dojo Offline Toolkit in Code

Brad Neuberg keeps it moving with the Dojo Offline Toolkit API. His latest work details the early API via example. The example is a web based email system, and the code using the API is below and shows you how you would use it .
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AmigaOS 4 : An exercise in computing, not nostalgia

Hyperion Entertainment, Inc., developers of the new AmigaOS 4 operating system, have announced that the final release version is available for download from their web site. The operating system is a free upgrade for registered users of any of the prerelease versions of OS4.
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The false dilemma of Agile Development

Will agile restore balance to the force, or are there hidden dangers?
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MySQL 5.0 Reference Manual

This is the MySQL Reference Manual. It documents MySQL 5.0 through 5.0.30.
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Blocks and Helpers, a Lovely Combination

Sometimes, a design requires a little extra markup, perhaps something to get that rounded corner to work or whathave you. Instead of copying and pasting this structure over and over, you can use a helper to make you life easier, and if you combine it with a block, it will just feel even more painless.
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Get a Free Full Conference Pass to EclipseCon 2007!

Genuitec is giving away a free full conference pass to EclipseCon - a $925 value.
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New Wicket-Stuff website online

The Wicket Stuff project provides additional Java web components to the core components supplied by the Wicket framework. Wicket is a Java web application framework that takes simplicity, separation of concerns and ease of development to a whole new level.
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Is Solaris really a bright choice for developers?

So, you're tired of Windows and thinking of trying Linux. There are lots of good distros, RedHat or Novell have all the enterprise cred you might need. And there's a support community too, it's a no brainer... Well, that's all true enough – but why not try Solaris - in its OpenSolaris form - too?
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NetBeans Version for WSIT in GlassFish

The NetBeans 5.5 IDE is tested with Sun Java System Application Server PE 9.0 Update Release 1 or GlassFish v1. It also used to work with GlassFish v2 but stopped doing so after b26 because of issue 90221 in NetBeans. A patch has been applied to NetBeans 5.5.1 which can be downloaded from here select 5.5.1 from the "NetBeans Version" list box .
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ASP.NET Ajax Released

darrenkopp writes "Microsoft released their anticipated AJAX framework that integrates with their ASP.NET product .It is a fully supported product 24x7 phone support , but is completely free! They are releasing the source for it as well."

IBM Releases Fastest SDK For Java 6

IndioMan writes "IBM is releasing an SDK for Java 6 and is sponsoring an Early Release Program to gather feedback from the Java community. Product binaries and documentation are available for Linux on x86 and 64-bit AMD, and AIX for PPC for 32- and 64-bit systems. In addition to supporting the Java SE 6 Platform specification, IBM's SDK also focuses on platform stability, performance, and diagnostics. It's tops on every benchmark."

The Birth of a FOSS Application

Joe Barr writes "Brice Burges explains why and how he created a new free software application, as well as what he learned from the birthing process, in a story on Linux.com. The story provides first-hand insights into the frustrations and satisfactions of developers working on free/open source projects. From the article: 'I'm always disappointed to hear open source project members say that they had "their developer" modify an aspect of the program without ever hearing from that developer or seeing any of the code. This is not progressive.'" Linux.com and Slashdot are both owned by OSTG.

Building a Programmer's Rosetta Stone

Did you ever run into the problem where you knew how to do something in one programming language, but really needed to do it in another? That's what Rosetta Code is all about. A variety of programming tasks are solved using as many languages as possible. You can examine existing tasks, or create your own.

A Primer for Microsoft's XNA

simoniker writes "Over at the education site Game Career Guide, they've got an in-depth primer of Microsoft's XNA, including interviews with Julie Ellen and Joe Nalewabau of Microsoft about the PC and Xbox 360 indie/student homebrew construction tool, as well as chats with two developers Benjamin Nitschke and Alex Okafor who have worked with XNA to some notable effect. Microsoft's Ellie claims of the efforts: 'Homebrew and independent developers are often very talented and have lots of creative ideas. Being able to officially write games directly for a retail console right at home is a first and could be very empowering for them. For the homebrew and indie scene to succeed we need to provide two things: great tools and access to a large audience. We're working on both.'"

Inside Bungie - Living The Spartan Life

Straight from the latest issue of Edge, a great feature all about the life inside Bungie studios. The article gets into a good bit of detail on the mindset of this insular part of Microsoft's development network. Interviewed developers discuss what it is like working for Microsoft, and how hard it is not to be hard on themselves. Specifically, the developers have some surprisingly harsh criticism of their own opus - Halo 2. From the article, comments by technical lead Chris Butcher: "One of the things that stuns me when I think about it, and I can't believe this is true - we had [no time to polish] for Halo 2. Take that polish period and completely get rid of it. We miscalculated, we screwed up, we came down to the wire and we just lost all of that. So Halo 2 is far less than it could and should be in many ways because of that. It kills me to think of it. Even the multiplayer experience for Halo 2 is a pale shadow of what it could and should have been if we had gotten the timing of our schedule right. It's astounding to me. I f***ing cannot play Halo 2 multiplayer. I cannot do it. And that's why I know Halo 3 is going to be so much better."

Ruby On Rails 1.2 Released

Scooter[AMMO] writes "David Heinemeier Hansson sent a post to the Rails 1.2. This new version adds a slew of buff and polish to the rest of the system, as well several new features like RESTful interfaces, response formats, improved multi-byte support, and more. If you haven't checked out the web application framework that aims to renew joy within its users, give it a look. You may be amazed at how easy it makes things without sacrificing power or functionality."

Is it Possible to Age Yourself Out of a Job?

An anonymous reader asks: "I'm a programmer with more than twelve years of experience. In all that time, I've never been a 'senior' developer. I'm competent and I work hard, but I don't think I am quite a senior developer in terms of technical or people skills. More and more I feel that I'm aging myself out a job. By this time, employers expect someone with my experience to have advanced some, and they may not be willing to even talk to me now, thinking that my pay requirements have grown while I have not. Even if I did get hired someplace new, my peers would likely be much younger than me. What do you do when you have an applicant like that? Are my fears legitimate?"

Slashback: Net Neutrality, Bugged Coins, and Pawns

Slashback tonight brings some clarifications and updates to previous Slashdot stories, including: anti-Net-neutrality article modified; no bugged Canadian coins; a tech program for women in Silicon Valley; Pirate Bay and Sealand; and Microsoft evangelist apologizes for "pawns" comment. Read on for details.

Netscape Restores RSS DTD, Until July

Randall Bennett writes "RSS 0.91's DTD has been restored to it's rightful location on my.netscape.com, but it'll only stay there till July 1st, 2007. Then, Netscape will remove the DTD, which is loaded four million times each day. Devs, start your caching engines."

The Hidden Engineering Gender Gap

ifindkarma writes "Joyce Park, CTO of invitation site Renkoo.com, has written a two-part essay exploring why there is no pipeline of self-taught female engineers entering the tech industry via Open Source or other individual efforts. In The Hidden Engineering Gap, she asks why there are so many self-taught male software engineers in startups, but no similar pool of women. In A Modest Proposal, she discusses a potential short-term fix to the problem: a one-year, co-op, certificate-granting program for women set up and sponsored by Silicon Valley companies." dgilik notes that his unscientific survey suggested that 93% of Linux users are male.

Sun Releases Fortran Replacement as OSS

sproketboy writes "Sun Microsystems has released an alpha version of a new programming language called Fortress to eventually replace Fortran for high performance scientific computing tasks. Fortress was designed specifically for multi-core processors and is published under the BSD license."

State Trooper Fights For His Source Code

BarneyRabble writes to tell us that a Wisconsin State Trooper is fighting to maintain control of the source code for a program he wrote that helps officers write traffic tickets electronically. Praised by the state just 18 months ago, Trooper David Meredith is now suing the head of patrol claiming that the state is trying to illegally seize the source that he had developed on his own time. From the article: "Meredith, of Oconto Falls, defied an order from his bosses to relinquish the source code - the heart of the program - in October and instead deposited it with Dane County Circuit Judge David T. Flanagan, pending a ruling on who should control it. The case centers on how the software was developed. Department of Transportation attorney Mike Kernats said the State Patrol - a division of DOT - provided Meredith with a computer to write the software and gave him time off patrol duties so he could do the work. But Meredith said in court filings that he spent hundreds of hours off duty working on it, developing it almost entirely on his own time. He noted that he never signed a software licensing agreement."

Lisp and Ruby

sdelmont writes "The developers of Rubinius, an experimental Ruby interpreter inspired by SmallTalk, have been discussing the possibility of adding a Lisp dialect to their VM. Pat Eyler collected some ideas and opinions from the people involved and it makes for some interesting reading. For many, Ruby already is an acceptable Lisp, and the language itself started as a 'perlification' of Lisp even Matz says so so it is perhaps fitting and might help explain why the whole idea feels right. Now, if someone added support for VB and gave it the respect it deserves, the world would be a better place."

New Outlook Won't Use IE To Render HTML

loconet writes to tell us about a little surprise coming in Outlook 2007: it will render HTML email using the MS Word engine, dropping the use of IE for this purpose. This represents a body-check to the movement towards Web standards. Whatever you think about HTML email, lots of it gets generated, and those generating it won't be able to use CSS any more, and may stop pushing for more widespread standards support. The announcement was made on MSDN. From the Campaign Monitor post: "Imagine for a second that the new version of IE7 killed off the majority of CSS support and only allowed table based layouts. The web design world would be up in arms! Well, that's exactly what the new version of Outlook does to email designers."

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