"I claim that if you don't take those rules to heart in your own source code then you are either unprofessional, lazy, not a team-player, or all of the above. If you as a software developer take pride in your professionalism and quality of your work then you have to consider that it is not only the achieved functionality for which you are being paid: The code you produce in almost all cases becomes property of your employer, and thus, the code itself also a product (and actually the most important product) you deliver. And how useful that code if for the team who has to work with it is what really determines its value."

Free open-source SQL full-text search engine

With the deprecation of the Apple-supplied WebObjects development tools in the WO5.4 timeframe, WOProject/WOLips has become the recommended toolset for WebObjects development and is the toolset that Apple itself uses internally.

Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard. It automates the process of checking Java code to spare humans of this boring (but important) task. This makes it ideal for projects that want to enforce a coding standard.

Versions provides a pleasant way to work with Subversion on your Mac.

Redmine is a flexible project management web application.

'cuz there are a zillion pages to check.

Better start reading up on this.

I decided to act like a 7-year-old and feed my favourite curse words to Google Code to see what might be found.

"So talented, underpaid, and frustrated software engineers at the BBC are forced to make a decision."

Very poignant, very useful.

Other advantages of NSPartyFridge over NSFridge are that instances of it typically consume smaller kitchen space allocations, as well as looking like a robot.

Developer site for Jaiku.

"As your mind begins to wander, you find little ways to keep the day interesting, usually by adding things to the source that normally wouldn't be there." Mikey finds a Bush jab in an Apple sample code document.

If you're a CS nerd, this will blow your mind.

How to program a Quartz Composer screen saver for Apple TV.

playsh is a narrative-driven "object navigation" client, operating primarily on the semantic level, casting your hacking environment as a high-level, shell-based, social prototyping laboratory, a playground for recombinant network toys.

I would put a description of Apollo here, but it violates the International Treaty On Buzzword Proliferation.

Register to become a developer, should your company be into that sort of thing.

"Pipes is an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator."

"This document is not intended to be a complete reference for shell scripting, as such a subject could fill entire libraries. However, it is intended to provide enough information to get you started writing and comprehending shell scripts. Along the way,

"jQuery is a new type of Javascript library. It is not a huge, bloated framework promising the best in AJAX - nor is it just a set of needlessly complex enhancements - jQuery is designed to change the way that you write Javascript."

Ruby On Rails development, done the Mac way.

Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don't speak browser quirks as a second language.

By Emily Short.

"Assigning more programmers to a project running behind schedule will make it even later, due to the time required for the new programmers to learn about the project, and the increased communications overhead. "

"KittenAuth is a new system for human-checking that forgoes all the useless random string crap that people cannot read, and replaces the whole lot with pictures of cute animals."

"It should come as no surprise that Mac OS X is a favored platform for Rails development."

Open source replacement for Docushare?

Opensource Sourceforge, basically.

Could just replace my SEE habits.

Something to, er, think about. Great post.

Really spiffy - Richard, want to learn PHP?

backstage.bbc.co.uk is the BBC's new developer network, providing content feeds for anyone to build with.

Did I mention I'm officially going now?

"Power Tools is one central place to get lots of open source code and components that Six Apart's team has released."

Stop opening awesome sites, Google.

I really should try to work some of this in for VJA/PNN.