June 2008
Versions - Mac Subversion Client
by Xavier Lacot & 1 other (via)Versions provides a pleasant way to work with Subversion on your Mac. Whether you’re a hardcore Subversion user or new to version control systems, Versions will help streamline your workflow.
May 2008
SearchMonkey - YDN
by Xavier Lacot & 2 othersUsing SearchMonkey, developers and site owners can use structured data to make Yahoo! Search results more useful and visually appealing, and drive more relevant traffic to their sites.
Yay ! Semantic Web appearing ?
SMOB - Semantic Microblogging Architecture
by Xavier Lacot & 2 othersSMOB is a distributed / decentralised microblogging system built on RDF and Semantic Web technologies, mainly SIOC and FOAF. Currently, we have simple prototypes of a publishing and an aggregating service, less than 100 lines of PHP code each.
freshAIRapps.com - Adobe AIR Application Showcase, Tutorials and Resources
by Xavier Lacot & 1 otherShowcase, tutorial and resource website for Adobe AIR.
Protoflow
by Xavier Lacot & 2 othersProtoFlow is a coverflow effect written in Javascript. It uses Prototype and Scriptaculous to do bulk of the work and it uses Reflection.js to do all the image reflections stuff!
sfFirePHP plugin
by Xavier Lacot & 1 otherFirePHP enables you to print to your Firebug Console using a simple PHP function call. What makes FirePHP different? All data is sent via a set of X-FirePHP-Data response headers. This means that the debugging data will not interfere with the content on your page. Thus FirePHP is ideally suited for AJAX development.
Introduction to Opera Dragonfly
by Xavier Lacot & 3 othersWe 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.
April 2008
The Evolution of Web 3.0
by Xavier Lacot & 1 otherMarta Strickland talks about the Web 3, the Web 2, the Web 1, the semantic Web... All about the Web, anyway. Getting bored of it all.
March 2008
The Yahoo! Search Open Ecosystem
by Xavier Lacot & 2 othersYahoo opens to the semantic web.
A few weeks ago, we began talking about the new Yahoo! Search open platform. Today, we're releasing more details about two important components of the initiative -- the developer platform as well as our support of a number of semantic web standards.
Accessibility problems with microformats
by Xavier LacotThe Massachusetts Commonwealth Chief Technology Strategist Sarah Bourne posted a comment about problems that microformats present for website accessibility.
February 2008
JavaScriptMVC
by Xavier Lacot & 2 othersJavaScriptMVC is a framework that brings methods to the madness of JavaScript development. It guides you to successfully completed projects by promoting best practices, maintainability, and convention over configuration.
I just fear about the "JavaScript is awesome" that one can read in the product's homepage...
Jack Slocum’s Blog - » Building a desktop application with Ext, AIR, Aptana and Red Bull
by Xavier LacotExt 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?
December 2007
Vitamin Features » Serving JavaScript Fast
by Xavier Lacot & 11 others (via)The next generation of web apps make heavy use of JavaScript and CSS. We’ll show you how to make those apps responsive and quick.
August 2007
Breaking news: R3 and StickleBack Yahoo tools Open Sourced | Federico Feroldi’s blog
by mbertierI just received an awesome news from my manager. Two of the most important Yahoo’s platform tools have been published to the Open Source world for your pleasure:
Target Practice - A Workshop in Tuning MySQL Queries - Jay Pipes
by mbertier (via)I gave a tutorial at OSCON last week on tuning MySQL queries, the EXPLAIN statement, the optimizer, and benchmarking. I've gone ahead and put the tutorial materials online now:
jTagEditor
by mbertier & 4 othersjTagEditor is a lightweight jQuery plugin which allows you to turn any textarea tag into a quick tag editor in an unobtrusive manner. This plugin is easy to use and fully customizable (Styles, Tagset and behaviours).
Syncotype Your Baselines — RobGoodlatte.com
by mbertier & 2 others (via)I wrote a simple bookmarklet script that overlays a baseline grid atop everything on the page you’re viewing.
MySQL Performance Blog » Landscape of Transactional Storage Engines for MySQL
by mbertier (via)talks about current state behavior and performance properties of Innodb, Falcon, PBXT and SolidDB Storage Engines
Performance tips for web applications « The Storyteller
by mbertier & 3 others (via)I was trying to improve performance for a web application recently keeping them in mind. Let me describe how to do some of them technically.
YUI 2.3.0: Six New Components and a Prettier Face » Yahoo! User Interface Blog
by mbertier & 2 others (via)We’re pleased to announce today the release of YUI version 2.3.0. This release features six new additions to the library as well as a new skinning architecture and a new visual treatment for most of our UI controls. All of this, plus 250 enhancements and bug fixes, is available for download immediately.
July 2007
Blogging Hyperic » Hyperic Releases Alfresco Plugin
by mbertierWith today’s release of the Hyperic HQ for Alfresco plugin, Hyperic HQ becomes the only monitoring system to natively support Alfresco deployments on every platform and architecture.
White Paper: Intelligent Updates to Configuration Files - Spike Developer Zone
by mbertierIn this paper, we provide a new twofold solution – automated merging of changes that are done by a software provider after installation and manual merging of changes performed by the user thereafter. While some manual intervention is required in this approach, it is a more reliable solution. This approach also includes a tool to ease the manual file comparison and merge process.
Error Buddy - Spike Developer Zone
by mbertierDo you have an error message from your application? Then find the answer with Error Buddy. You can search over 40000 source code files and troubleshooting documents using our beta lucene/nutch search interface or if you prefer, search as normal using google. With LXR technology you can drill right down into the line of source code where it came from with full cross-referencing.
Software As She’s Developed » Blog Archive » The only thing wrong with GoF Design Patterns is …
by mbertier (via)Jeff Attwood recently pointed out the difference between Gamma et al’s Design Patterns and Alexanders’ equivalent and outlined a critique of the former which characterises it as “replacing actual thought and insight with a plodding, mindless, cut-and-paste code generation template mentality”.