If you’ve never heard of Programmable Web then I suggest you take a look. Its a huge directory of all the major APIs on the web open for development. They’ve decided to award the Best API of the Year to the Facebook site. It won based on its openness, audience, money-making potential, viral features, modularity [...]
After the gushing praise I keep hearing about TextMate I installed a plugin for Vim which aims to give some of the benifits – though I’m yet to be convinced of its merits*. Today when I was looking for extra bundles for the SnippetsEmu plugin (by far the most comprehensive) I came across a brand-new [...]
I was simply going to post a comment @ this blog but Alanis Morissette is telling me to make a post instead. I’ve always been a strong believer in learning more than one language for two major reasons: 1. A good programmer programs They don’t work. I’ve always found the best programmer is someone who [...]
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A few days ago Rick over at dZone called out to its memebers to get voting on the submitted articles (if you’re not sure what dZone is read my previous post). Since then the response has been vast but I personally think we can all make dZone loads better so everyone should get their suggestions [...]
As a developer the design of an applications interface can often take a second peg to the function-guts. I always like to have a dig around a selection of good icon sets though to spruce up my interfaces and these are six of those resources: Search Engines Iconlet – One of the two major icon [...]
Unfortunately the Straw Dogs VPS account was deleted on Thursday by VPSFarm. Apparently this was due to the PayPal subscription being cancelled by me on September 2nd. As much as the PayPal site does state that the sub was cancelled by me – I disagree. I see no reason why I’d cancel the subscription to [...]
UPDATED: As of Jul 10th 2009 Open Source seems to be exploding all over the place at the moment and with online services increasingly jumping on the free offerings its been fantastic for developers wanting to host, manage, flaunt and communicate their projects online. Here’s a rundown of 6 free SVN hosting and project management [...]
While a mate was banging on about the new Half Life Team Fortress mod I was getting excited about IBM’s new Lotus Symphony office app. I know – I’m one step away from slippers.But when I was trying to download it this morning I couldn’t! Why? Because IBM seem to want to make it as [...]
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