Here’s some cool stuff - Google’s Hosting some popular Javascript Ajax libraries like jQuery, prototype and the likes on their servers. You use this service to serve the supported libraries straight off Google. They also provide you with the option to load a particular version of the library so you won’t have to keep checking your code everytime a latest release is made.
Here’s how you would load jQuery version 1.2.3 using this API:
<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script><script>// Load jQuery
google.load("jquery", "1.2.3");
//Continue using jQuery</script>
The AJAX Libraries API is a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular open source JavaScript libraries. By using the Google AJAX API Loader’sgoogle.load() method, your application has high speed, globaly available access to a growing list of the most popular JavaScript open source libraries including:
Google works directly with the key stake holders for each library effort and accept the latest stable versions as they are released. Once we host a release of a given library, we are committed to hosting that release indefinitely.
Twibble mobile is S60 application to send your tweets to Twitter. Tried it on my N82 and it works great - a small problem I had was that the screen scrolling was painfully slow - but I liked the way twibble allowed to switch between a data network and sms to send tweets. Twibble also allows you to tag your location to your tweet based on the in-built GPS unit on your phone. The location tagging feature is optional, so you can turn it off when you don’t want others to know your location.
Features of Twibble mobile include:
post messages via your mobile network (WiFi, UMTS, GPRS), or using text messages (SMS).
auto refresh: twibble can retrieve tweets automatically after a given time period.
optimized to generate as little data traffic as possible. Only new tweets are fetched to reduce data traffic.
integrated timeline: Tweets and direct messages are displayed in a single list sorted by date. There is no need to retrieve tweets and direct messages separatly, or to switch between various lists.
open web links contained in a tweet (via phone browser).
re-tweet (forward) of tweets.With a few clicks you can re-send a tweet you received without re-typing.
quick @replies
you can add friends
mark tweets as favourites: Useful on the road when you want to mark a tweet for later reading.
cancel network requests (twibble is multi threaded)
Google Doctype is an open encyclopedia and reference library. Written by web developers, for web developers. It includes articles on web security, JavaScript DOM manipulation, CSS tips and tricks, and more. The reference section includes a growing library of test cases for checking cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility.
This site’s currently got some good HOWTOs on Web security, DOM manipulation, CSS and styles and more. A worthwhile place to check if you’re looking at some quick reference and help.
G.ho.st an acronym for Global Hosted Operating SysTem is a service which provides an free online OS, storage space and an email account.
I’d checked this service out and found it a pretty good concept, which allows you to upload your files to your online storage space, work on them on their Virtual Computer and save the changes online. The apps which this Virtual computer provides are pretty cool, since they’re all online services. The spreadsheet and document editor are actually Zoho’s apps which are embedded here. This service uses Amazon’s EC2 and S3 services behind the covers to provide the virtual machines and the storage space.
The only problem I see with these online OS services is the requirement for decent bandwidth to access these. These services tend to crawl on slower lines, rendering these really useless. But then if someone gives me 3GB space free, why should I complain !
G. ho.st (“ghost”, the Global hosted operating system) provides a free and complete Virtual Computer (VC) service, including personal desktop, files and applications, available from any browser. G.ho.st is the world’s first and only true open Web Operating System (Web OS), working seamlessly with leading third-party web applications. The G.ho.st VC delivers a mature computing environment to every person, which is free of charge, available everywhere and admin-free. The G.ho.st VC service is available at http://G.ho.st.
Just out a few hours back - The Google App Engine - it’s a preview release, and I was late in getting to this news and missed out on the initial invites - but have added myself to the invite queue.
PHP devs may curse Google on this since Python is only supported language out here in Google App Engine territory.
Google App Engine gives you access to the same building blocks that Google uses for its own applications, making it easier to build an application that runs reliably, even under heavy load and with large amounts of data. The development environment includes the following features:
Dynamic webserving, with full support of common web technologies
Persistent storage (powered by Bigtable and GFS with queries, sorting, and transactions)
Automatic scaling and load balancing
Google APIs for authenticating users and sending email
Fully featured local development environment
Google App Engine packages these building blocks and takes care of the infrastructure stack, leaving you more time to focus on writing code and improving your application.
Adobe has just announced the beta version of Photoshop Express, which is an online service which allows users to perform basic editing and apply effects on your uploaded images. They also provide 2GB of image hosting.
Photoshop Express was created with Flex, Adobe’s free, open source framework for building RIAs. Flex applications provide a consistent, rich user experience across operating systems and all major browsers, including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari and others. An Internet connection and an up-to-date Flash® Player 9 are all that are required to experience Adobe Photoshop Express. In its early phases, Photoshop Express is available to US residents-only in English. Users may experience slow performance if accessed outside of the US. Future plans include availability in other languages and countries.
A set of PHP classes and library functions to help facilitate building, debugging, and rendering of XML, HTML, XHTML, WAP/WML Documents, and SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) images as well as complex html ‘widgets’ .
A PHP5 only class to faciliate the stemming of word. This is the process of removing suffixs from words to produce their “stems”, eg national -> nation, running -> run, adoption -> adopt.
Simply, this is a Javascript library for decoding the output of the PHP serialize() function. Useful if you want to play around with PHP Serialized datasets in Javascript
Over the years, the language itself, the extensions it supports, and its overall popularity have all dramatically increased. Unfortunately, it’s also become more and more difficult for even the most attentive programmer to keep up. So, if you haven’t ca
PHP comes with an extensive catalog of date and time functions, all designed to let you easily retrieve temporal information, massage it into a format you require, and either use it in a calculation or display it to the user. However, if you’d like to do
