Open-source software is everywhere, and developers use it to speed up their development on a regular basis. This is as it should be, for the most part, assuming the developers follow the licensing for whatever open-source software (OSS) they use. Along with licensing, the open-source community is, probably rightly so, very focused on attributing credit [...]
According to Facebook’s Developer Blog, big changes are coming to the application directory, which will affect both developers and everyday users. With over 52,000 apps now available, the Facebook team, they’re looking at new ways to highlight the best apps and help users discover the ones most relevant to them. This should deliver a much-needed [...]
Say what you will about Adobe’s licensing fees and whatnot, but at least they’re willing to do something to provide a little assistance to developers that have been hit hard by the current economic situation. If you can provide proof that you are currently unemployed, Adobe will provide you a personal use license for Flex [...]
Two weeks ago, Microsoft open sourced the ASP.NET MVC code. Today, they announced that they’re dropping the price of Sharepoint Designer 2007 as far as it can go - it’s now available as a free download from Office Online.
The page states that Microsoft is “implementing a number of changes to promote and facilitate even more [...]
Jason recently wrote on Download Squad about a Facebook group aimed at eliminating Internet Explorer 6 from the web, and Lee even found a script that reminds IE6 users to upgrade when they visit your site. Not everyone is ready to let IE6 go, though. Just ask the folks behind Save IE6, a site dedicated [...]
At a time when a lot of newspapers are shutting down or finding themselves forced to come up with a smarter online strategy, the New York Times is evolving its web content with improvements like the Article Skimmer and an Article Search API. The API can be used to build interesting applications on top of [...]
Django, the open source web framework written in Python, has just hit the 1.0 milestone! My sincere congratulations to the entire Django team and community for all of their hard work.
Django (pronounced Jang-oh), like Ruby on Rails, is part of the new-hotness class of web frameworks that has generated interest amongst lots of web developers. [...]
I’ve written about plenty of great software, but I’ll probably never create any on my own. I’m no programmer, unless you count the projects I used to cobble together on our Commodore 64 and Apple IIe when I was in middle school.
That’s why I like the idea of bitloot. It’s a simple concept. Submit your [...]
A good snippet manager or autotext tool can save just about anyone a little time and effort. For those who do a lot of typing, it can even help prevent repetitive stress injuries. If you’re looking for an application like this, take a look at PhraseExpress.
Apart from point and click insertion of pre-defined text and [...]
I have to confess that, until today, I was still converting latitude and longitude by Googling “convert GPS coordinates” and putting it into whatever came up first. That just changed when I found Tiny Geo-coder. It converts coordinate pairs to addresses, and vice versa. Not only that, but it has an API, so you can [...]
