AppJS allows you to use HTML 5 APIs to create attractive applications from Word Processors to 3D Games.

Leiningen offers the easiest way to get started with Clojure. With a focus on project automation and straightforward configuration, it gets out of your way and lets you focus on your code.

Leiningen is for automating Clojure projects without setting your hair on fire.

The goal of TwUI is to build a high-quality UI framework designed specifically for the Mac.

Great deep dive into the WebKit developer tools: #webinf #web #development #tools #html #css #javascript

Micro-frameworks are definitely the pocketknives of the JavaScript library world: short, sweet, to the point. And at 5k and under, micro-frameworks are very very portable. A micro-framework does one thing and one thing only — and does it well. No cruft, no featuritis, no feature creep, no excess anywhere.
Microjs.com helps you discover the most compact-but-powerful microframeworks, and makes it easy for you to pick one that’ll work for you.

Ender is a full featured package manager for your browser.
It allows you to search, install, manage, and compile front-end javascript packages and their dependencies for the web.

This command uses git rev-list --bisect to help drive the binary search process to find which change introduced a bug, given an old "good" commit object name and a later "bad" commit object name.

Cloud9 is a state-of-the-art IDE that runs in your browser and lives in the cloud, allowing you to run, debug and deploy applications from anywhere, anytime. A complete game-changer that will change the way we develop applications forever.

Most discussion around thrift and protobuf are polarized around performance and/or features, but I’m afraid the discussion is more nuanced than that. My hope with this post is to shed some more light on these two systems and how you should go about evaluating what is best for your needs.

RAD tool for Java.

So, what is GitHub Flow?

- Anything in the master branch is deployable
- To work on something new, create a descriptively named branch off of master (ie: new-oauth2-scopes)
- Commit to that branch locally and regularly push your work to the same named branch on the server
- When you need feedback or help, or you think the branch is ready for merging, open a pull request
- After someone else has reviewed and signed off on the feature, you can merge it into master
- Once it is merged and pushed to ‘master’, you can and should deploy immediately

Watir, pronounced water, is an open-source (BSD) family of Ruby libraries for automating web browsers. It allows you to write tests that are easy to read and maintain. It is simple and flexible.

With one command, have a working virtualenv + virtualenvwrapper environment.

A simple set of rules and requirements that dictate how version numbers are assigned and incremented. For this system to work, you first need to declare a public API. This may consist of documentation or be enforced by the code itself. Regardless, it is important that this API be clear and precise. Once you identify your public API, you communicate changes to it with specific increments to your version number. Consider a version format of X.Y.Z (Major.Minor.Patch). Bug fixes not affecting the API increment the patch version, backwards compatible API additions/changes increment the minor version, and backwards incompatible API changes increment the major version.

Interactive HTTP console.

Interactive shell for node.js.

A multi-transport async logging library for node.js.

Virtual environments for node.js.

npm is a package manager for node. You can use it to install and publish your node programs. It manages dependencies and does other cool stuff.

A clean and consistent syntax, optimized for modern use cases including string interpolation and event based programming, and one that generates human readable JavaScript. Couple it with HAML and SASS, and the maintainability of web pages goes way up.

Here’s three takes on microfinance, all from the past month:

Indian microfinance lender SKS goes public, raising $358 million and making its founder dynastically wealthy. The decision was controversial, and was largely responsible for an entire non-profit organization, Unitus, disappearing. When that kind of money is at stake, noble non-profit principles have a tendency to evaporate.
Steven Schwarcz of Duke University, has a bright idea: why not use the magic of securitization to provide funds for microfinance lenders? “Such disintermediation,” he writes, “would enable microfinance loans to be funded directly from low-cost, and virtually limitless, capital market sources”. What could possibly go wrong?
Hema Bansal reports from a roundtable in New Delhi, which found that many microfinance lenders don’t know their effective interest rate, and the ones who do know it tend not to reveal it.

The lesson I take from all of this is that microfinance is much, much messier than its advocates normally like to admit. I’m constantly astonished at the number of people I meet who are all excited about some microfinance fund or initiative, with some vague idea that the main problem is finding people to loan out dollars at low interest rates; after that, the magic of the market will help bring billions of people out of poverty.

But in reality it doesn’t work anything like that. Microfinance loans are often punitively expensive, with the main beneficiaries being the owners of the MFIs rather than the borrowers. MFIs which start off on a non-profit basis convert to being for-profits, following the well-trod path most famously trod by Compartamos, in Mexico. Insofar as default rates are low, that’s often because borrowers keep on rolling over their loans into ever-larger debts, without ever really exiting from poverty. The lenders compete viciously in densely-populated urban centers, being very opaque on pricing, and leaving many rural areas untouched. And all the while well-intentioned people in the US dream up new ways of throwing more dollars at the industry, in the absence of any evidence that more dollars is what the industry really needs, at this point.

My feeling is that good non-profit microfinance organizations do exist, and that they should be supported with grants first, with technical expertise on things like underwriting and growth strategies second, and with local-currency funding third. If someone tells you that you can help bring millions of people out of poverty while still making a profit on your investment, your first reaction should be that they’re selling something which is too good to be true. Start by asking about local interest rates and then work out from there: the facts on the ground are likely to be a lot more complicated, and a lot less compelling.

Update: Accion’s Andrew Sprung responds in the comments.

This particular fabric file makes setting up and deploying a django application much easier, but it does make a few assumptions. Namely that you’re using Git, Apache and mod_wsgi and your using Debian or Ubuntu.

You gather evidence, mostly from historical timesheet data, that you feed back into your schedules. What you get is not just one ship date: you get a confidence distribution curve, showing the probability that you will ship on any given date.

For the modern Python programmer, some of the most important tools to aid in reduced complexity and repetition are virtualenv, Fabric, and pip.

It’s an exceedingly civilized way to develop an app.

Cappuccino is an open source framework that makes it easy to build desktop-caliber applications that run in a web browser.

PP is a python module which provides mechanism for parallel execution of python code on SMP (systems with multiple processors or cores) and clusters (computers connected via network).

django-viewtools provides a management command to help in debugging and profiling views.

For porting existing Python 2.5 or 2.6 source code to Python 3.0, the best strategy is the following:

The py lib is a development support library featuring py.test, ad-hoc distributed execution, micro-threads (greenlets) and uniform local path and svn abstractions.

Launchpad is a free software hosting and development website. We make it easy to collaborate across multiple projects.

The test client is a Python class that acts as a dummy Web browser, allowing you to test your views and interact with your Django-powered application programatically.

MozLab is a suite of tools and libraries that help make your life easier and your time more productive as a developer of AJAX and Mozilla applications.

virtualenv is a tool to create isolated Python environments.

Ropemacs is a plugin for performing python refactorings in emacs.

An easy to use data access system was developed that meets UNSD’s vision of providing an integrated information resource with current, relevant and reliable statistics free of charge to the global community.

A ruby/python based HTML parser/tokenizer based on the WHATWG HTML5 specification for maximum compatibility with major desktop web browsers.

A Python template language that is smart about markup: it knows the difference between tags, attributes, and actual text nodes.

The data on Freebase is copied over to Sandbox once a week (typically on Monday afternoons).

The Voxeo Evolution site enables you to leverage your XML & Web skills, platforms, and tools to create voice recognition and touch-tone driven applications that can be called from or call out to any telephone.

Powercursor is a software toolkit in Flash for designing interfaces you can touch.

To enhance the interactivity of mobile web sites and make workflow more efficient, we've developed a unique library for reading, recombining, processing and creating SWF (Adobe Flash) files.

SVG fonts and animation are not on the development schedule for Firefox 3. Here are some thoughts about what would be needed to implement these features.

OpenQA is the premier source for quality open source QA projects.

A simple ruby build program with capabilities similar to make.

The actual composition is trivial and consists of just two pieces: the video input and a billboard to render it.

GNU FD-licensed intro to Django.

Allows you to build hacks for Cocoa applications and apply the code selectively based on an application's unique identifier.

If you’re on MacOS X and you’re developing database aware applications you certainly want to have installed locally one or both of those populars RDBMS : PostgreSQL or MySQL.

While Wallop is great for communicating with your friends, it is also a rich platform for Flash designers and content creators to develop Mods and make money doing it.

The Facebook API enables outside applications to make remote procedure calls to Facebook on behalf of a Facebook user.

Frame 1 contains a bounding box or any graphics that serve as placeholders for the final art. Frame 2 contains all other assets, including graphics and base classes, used by the component.

Although components may appear very complex, they are really just fancy movie clips.

Natural Docs is an open-source, extensible, multi-language documentation generator. You document your code in a natural syntax that reads like plain English.

A remote file editing package for GNU Emacs.

From the microkernel to the upper layers NetKernel uses a generalization of REST, the basis for the successful operation of the World Wide Web, and applies it to the finest granularity of resource oriented software composition.

All of the tools you need to poke, prod, and monitor your JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Ajax are brought together into one seamless experience, including a debugger, error console, command line, and a variety of fun inspectors.

Using the OKN system, people in Africa, Asia and Latin America can create digital content in their own language, which is then exchanged with others through networks of existing community Access Points staffed by what OKN calls ‘Community Reporters’.

If, for the better part of the 20th century, it was New York and its glistening imitations that symbolised the future, it is now the stacked-up, sprawling, impromptu city-countries of the third world.

This site is your source for information about using PHP with Yahoo! Web Services APIs.

A language that can be compiled to Flash, DHTML, or mod_neko, a VM embedded in an Apache plugin.

The primary goal of the Creative Commons Developer Community (CCDC) is to build a community of developers around the development of tools facilitating Creative Commons' licenses and standards.

I Am Alpha is a site for developers and other curious folks to play around with the underlying technology behind a whole new crop of cool AIM products.

The dangers of crossing storytelling modalities: good blogger != good filmmaker.

AsUnit is an Open-Source, Unit Test Framework for Macromedia Flash ActionScript 2.0.

Xylescope will immediately display the HTML source of the page you are visiting and will make all the underlying CSS files available for you to see, including style sheets for alternative media and files that have been imported using filter hacks.

The DarwinPorts Project's main goal is to provide an easy way to install various open-source software products on the Darwin OS family (OpenDarwin, Mac OS X and Darwin).

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