Awesome post.

I want to do this in Montreal...

RT @jboutelle: WebPageTest.org is friggin' awesome! << just tried it, totally agree, really well done and useful #test

Interesting tidbit from iOS devcamp tonight: Objective C is now in the top 10 programming languages - #iphonedevcamp

The iPhone Developer University Program is a free program designed for higher education institutions looking to introduce curriculum for developing iPhone or iPod touch applications. The University Program provides a wealth of development resources, sophisticated tools for testing and debugging, and the ability to share applications within the same development team. Institutions can also submit applications for distribution in the App Store.

Quercus is Caucho Technology's fast, open-source, 100% Java implementation of the PHP language (requires JDK 1.5).

"In this context, there is the question of why Core Plugins, why not the classic models of the Plugins in the wordpress.org Plugin Repository? This directory shows particularly how active and strong the WordPress community is, but the variety of Plugins is immense and an examination of the code is for the individual Plugins not guaranteed (which I in fact also support, as long as they are GPL, but that's another discussion). I see the possibility of the Core Plugins differently, because they could give such security and the same standard as the core itself."

Directory of All Essays
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Rules of Productivity Presentation
How do we get more work done? It is a question that every manager and every passionate worker faces. Yet, for the most part, teams operate on gut instinct and habit. The results are less than optimal.

Over the years I've been collecting small pieces of research on various factors that actually seem to improve productivity. I've assembled eight of these experiments into a PowerPoint presentation. Feel free to use the graphs and data within to spread these practical ideas throughout your own teams.

That’s how many different open web service APIs are now listed in the ProgrammableWeb directory.

Game middleware is now coming of age (...) an up-to-date reference to the products currently available - will also advocate portability and compatibility of middleware solutions, in order to ease developers job and increase gamers satisfaction.

Version 0.7.0 is the first CouchDB release that is intended for widespread use.

With OverSite™, you can quickly define the hierarchy of your website or application. Create sections and subsections, then fill them with pages and screens. Rearrange your structure with OverSite's easy drag-and-drop interface.

Connect to Firefox and other Mozilla apps, explore and modify them from the inside, while they're running.

Execute Javascript, play with browser GUI, sneak into HTML pages, examine functions and variables, redefine them on the fly, hot-fix bugs

Cet outil vous donne la possibilité de juger en un simple coup d'œil des tendances qui animent le secteur des TIC.

Small REST applications that are designed from the ground up to be integrated with other apps. Usually, they are not directly useful on their own, but must be integrated into other applications (this is what differentiates a MicroApp from a REST app).

Write all your code clean, the first time you write it. Make classes for everything. Use enumerated types. Don't take shortcuts. Don't have any part of the code where you say, I just glossed over that for now. You are NOT going to go back and fix it!

MRI is a free cross browser tool that lets you test selectors with any web page. Selectors, particularly complex ones can be difficult to get exactly right - MRI lets you experiment with them on any web page (local or online, static or dynamic).

WebRunner WebRunner is based on a concept called Site Specific Browsers (SSB). An SSB is an application with an embedded browser designed to work exclusively with a single web application.

At level 4, the cloud of storage and computation is partly centralized in a handful of intergalactic clusters, and partly distributed across a network of humble peers.