03 August 2007
Breaking news: R3 and StickleBack Yahoo tools Open Sourced | Federico Feroldi’s blog
I 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
(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 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).
02 August 2007
Syncotype Your Baselines — RobGoodlatte.com
by 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
(via)talks about current state behavior and performance properties of Innodb, Falcon, PBXT and SolidDB Storage Engines
01 August 2007
Performance tips for web applications « The Storyteller
by 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 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.
31 July 2007
Blogging Hyperic » Hyperic Releases Alfresco Plugin
With 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
In 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
Do 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.
The Litepost Blog
At the heart of Litepost's reinvention of email is a powerful, radically simplified user interface that is completely intuitive. Based on extensive user testing, Litepost boasts "the simplest, easiest-to-use, and most intuitive and efficient email experience" available today.
Software As She’s Developed » Blog Archive » The only thing wrong with GoF Design Patterns is …
(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”.
GOsa project - Home
GOsa is a GPL'ed PHP based administration tool for managing accounts and systems in LDAP databases. It administers users and groups, mail distribution lists, thin clients, applications, phones and faxes.
Library of Free Data Models from DatabaseAnswers.org
by 5 others (via)Here are about 450 very useful 'Kick-Start' Data Models that I have created since I started 5 years ago
30 July 2007
MySQL AB :: How to write a successful patch
(via)Submitting patches to Open Source code doesn't come naturally to everyone.
26 July 2007
Namespaces in action - Stubblog
(via)Keep your fingers crossed that we will get a PHP5.3 with namespaces!
25 July 2007
Exceptional Performance
by 3 othersYahoo!'s Exceptional Performance team evangelizes best practices for improving web performance. They conduct research, build tools, write articles and blogs, and speak at conferences. Their best practices center around the rules for high performance web sites.
YSlow for Firebug
by 21 others (via)YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool. YSlow gives you:
* Performance report card
* HTTP/HTML summary
* List of components in the page
* Tools including JSLint
24 July 2007
Pourquoi il ne faut pas utiliser d'underscore dans les URL - WebRankInfo
(via)L'intérêt principal d'utiliser un bon séparateur n'est pas direct mais indirect : avec un bon séparateur, tous ceux qui font un lien en utilisant votre URL comme texte cliquable (anchor text) vous offrent des bons liens puisqu'ils contiennent vos mots-clés. Dans le cas contraire ces liens vous aident beaucoup moins pour votre référencement : ils vous apportent seulement du PageRank et éventuellement un peu de TrustRank ;-)
Review Board
(via)For too long, code reviews have been too much of a chore. This is largely due to the lack of quality tools available, leaving developers to resort to e-mail and bug tracker-based solutions.
At VMware, we've traditionally done code reviews over e-mail. A significant amount of time was wasted in forming review requests, switching between the diff and the e-mail, and trying to understand what parts of the code the reviewer was referring to. We decided to fix all that.
ChipLog » Blog Archive » Review Board
it started out simple, but grew to be pretty powerful and useful quickly. It was designed to automate and simplify the process of creating review requests and actually reviewing code.
SnapLogic Open Source Internet Data Services
SnapLogic™ is an Open Source solution that produces data services from virtually any source and easily transforms them to suit any data integration requirement.
Whether it is data migration and synchronization for application integration, ETL for data analytics or JSON data services for Rich Internet Applications, SnapLogic is the foundation of a data services infrastructure layer that can meet all of your data integration requirements
19 July 2007
Diamond Notes » Blog Archive » Fantastic New Tool!!!!!
(via)The tool is called Querysniffer and it grabs MySQL queries from “the wire”. It does this in real time. You don’t have to stop/start your MySQL server or have to enable the general query log. You can start and stop the Querysniffer at any time.
Xdebug 2 released - Derick Rethans
by 1 other (via)After almost four years of work, Xdebug 2 is finally ready.
18 July 2007
A Recipe for OpenID-Enabling Your Site
by 8 others (via)This is a step-by-step tutorial guide for implementing OpenID consumer-side support with a web site that already has users with accounts.
