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:
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.
01 August 2007
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.
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
25 July 2007
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
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.
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
Chris Shiflett: CSRF Redirector
It's a simple tool that makes it easy to test CSRF using POST, hopefully demonstrating how prevalent CSRF vulnerabilities are as well as reducing the misconception that forging a POST request is complicated.
XSS post forwarder
by 1 other (via)This page is meant to enable people to easily showcase XSS flaws that use POST instead of GET. By linking to this page and providing GETed variables this page will build a form as specified which lets you show users the XSS flaw.
OpenID dans PEAR avec Services_Yadis - Kamelot Blog
(via)Un package Services_Yadis a été proposé pour PEAR.
Celui-ci fournit une implémentation PHP5 des spécifications 1.0 de Yadis [1] une condition des spécifications de l'authentification 2.0 d'OpenID.
11 July 2007
Projects: Transliteration Extension - Derick Rethans
(via)This extension allows you to transliterate text in non-latin characters (such as Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek etc) to latin characters. Besides the transliteration the extension also contains filters to upper- and lowercase latin, cyrillic and greek, and perform special forms of transliteration such as converting ligatures such as the Norwegian "æ" to "ae" and normalizing punctuation and spacing.
10 July 2007
[ANN] mod_concat
(via)The ability to concatenate CSS or javascript files into a single HTTP request.
30 June 2007
PEAR :: Package :: PHP_DocBlockGenerator
Creates the file Page block and the DocBlocks for includes, global variables, functions, parameters, classes, constants, properties and methods.
Accepts parameters to set the category name, the package name, the author's name and email, the license, the package link, etc...
Attempts to guess variable and parameters types.
29 June 2007
S3 Firefox Organizer
by 6 othersThis firefox extension(browser plugin) provides an user friendly interface for Amazon's S3 (Simple Storage Service)
26 June 2007
[PEAK] PEAK Status Report
(via)While the core PEAK toolkit for AOP, MDA, and other TLA's (three-letter acronyms) hasn't been released or changed much in the last 2 or three years, some of the non-core tools have really taken off.
22 June 2007
Mike Davidson: How To Keep Widgets From Slowing Down Sites: WEDJE
(via)WEDJE is similar to the innerHTML method above except it creates what is effectively a cross-platform, cross-browser defer, enabling your script to load and execute asynchronously across all environments.
20 June 2007
about:cmlenz - Announcing Babel
(via)I've just pushed out the first release of a new project that has been in the works for a couple of weeks now: Babel, a Python library for internationalization and localization in Python applications, especially web-based applications.
