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Will Software Stay Free in Today's Economy?

Savio Rodrigues — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:22:56 -0400

Andrew Keen writes the following in a post titled: �??Economy to Give Open-Source a Good Thumping�??:

The Best Application Server Ranked by Developers

Savio Rodrigues — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:30:11 -0400

Evans Data Corporation just released a report titled "Application Servers 2008 Ranking". You can get your hands on the free report here.

Improve Your Website With Multivariate Testing

Mike Moran — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:48:44 -0400

I've written in the past on multivariate testing, which I believe is one of the most important practices to continuously improve your Web site.

Construct Your Business Model With Open Source

Roberto Galoppini — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:05:35 -0400

The Building an Effective Commercial Open Source Strategy workshop was a great opportunity to share ideas and talk about business case examples with industry leaders and experts from all around the (mobile) world.

CSS Cache Buster

Alister Cameron — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:44:00 -0400

Thanks to Matt for prodding me to take the CSS cache buster code I posted about a couple of days ago

How Web Forms Should Be Developed

Stoney De Geyter — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:23:05 -0400

What this is about: This list covers how web forms should be created as well as basic functionality, including how errors are handled when something goes awry.

Why this is important: Forms are a standard method of allowing visitors to communicate with you, including the placing orders. If forms don't work properly, frustrate your visitors or create additional roadblocks that the visitor must hurdle over, the contact/conversion rate on your site will drop drastically.

What to look for:

Vendors Still In Control of the Source Code

Savio Rodrigues — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:24:27 -0400

Red Hat announced today that it's buying Qumranet, the company behind the KVM open source project. This is interesting because Red Hat already supports Xen, a competing open source virtualization technology. Most of you know that XenSource, the company behind Xen, was acquired by Citrix. Rumors have floated about Microsoft buying Citrix for some time. Red Hat probably wanted more control over its destiny in the virtualization arena.

Validating Your HTML Goes A Long Way

Navneet Kaushal — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:17:19 -0400

With a pool of technologies, like frames, Flash, etc. giving search engine crawlers a tough time already in their quest to decipher and then subsequently rank web pages, you may think â�?��?? why make their job tougher as it ultimately going to affect your rankings on SERPs. You, however, may be already doing so by unconsciously incorporating into your website an invalid HTML code. If you continue this malpractice, you may lose out on good search or even mediocre search engine rankings. The importance of a valid HTML is manifold.

Optimize Title Tags for Enhanced Traffic

Navneet Kaushal — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:45:53 -0400

Perhaps, the most important part of your website is the Title of your page. When a search engine crawler visits your website, the very first factor it notices, is the title tag. The importance of the title tag can be summarized just by the simple fact, that if your title isn't unique or not self created, then the search spider would simply ignore that page considering it as duplicate content. If your content is considered to be 'duplicate' then all your efforts in creating your page will become useless.

Facebook f8 Developer Conference

Brian Solis — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:17:44 -0400

I attended the Facebook f8 developer conference on Wednesday in San Francisco and I'm still recovering from the overwhelming experience.

Thousands of developers flocked to the San Francisco Design Center to see their Social Sherpa in person and calibrate with his vision for the next year of propagating the social graph. It's indeed a movement and his influence can not be underestimated. Comparisons to Steve Jobs were broadcast as freely as the ideas for new apps that were exchanged in almost every conversation.

Yahoo Releases Build Your Own Search Service

Navneet Kaushal — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:29:50 -0400

Via the Yahoo! Search Blog, Yahoo! has announced that, it has launched Yahoo! Search BOSS, an acronym for 'Build Your Own Search Engine'. It is a web services platform that allows developers and companies to create and launch web-scale search products by utilizing the same infrastructure and technology that powers Yahoo! Search.

OSCON 2008: Open Source Conference

Roberto Galoppini — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:26:23 -0400

OSCON 2008 - the biggest open source convention in the world run by O'Reilly, celebrating this year its 10th anniversary, - will take place in Portland next week, bringing together more than 2500 professionals from all over the world.

Reddit Releases Open Source Code

Savio Rodrigues — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:41:20 -0400

When a PR contact from Reddit contacted us about "exciting news", a mixture of workload and getting sent press releases not remotely related to open source led me to ignore the request to meet with Reddit.

My bad. The news is that Reddit has decided to open source the code behind reddit.com. The Reddit blog states:

Wordpress Basics for Your Next Website

Solomon Rothman — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:31:50 -0400

Wordpress is web software for online publishing. Notice that I didn't use the word blog, even though wordpress is blogging software. It has been expanded to be A LOT more then that and shouldn't considered in the same class as most blogging software. It's a robust CMS (content management system) that empowers every type of website with users that include CNN, Playstation and the New York Times.

Ubuntu Developer Fabio Marzocca Interview

Roberto Galoppini — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:37:47 -0400

Fabio Marzocca of the Baobab fame is an Italian Ubuntu-developer with an amazing background, ranging from being a technical writer by an historic Italian magazine named Mc Microcomputer to developing a program for music composing, known as the Muzical Wizard.

Opera Dragonfly Developer Tool

Brajeshwar Oinam — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:38:36 -0400

Debug JavaScript, inspect CSS and the DOM, and view any errors - Opera Dragonfly makes developing using Opera easier than ever, both on your computer and mobile phone.

The Semantic Web Beginners Guide

Mads Kristensen — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:35:42 -0400

After two days of evaluating my last post about the semantic web, I have come to the conclusion that it is a very bad idea to blog when irritated about something.

Adobe's New AIR Development Web Server

Brajeshwar Oinam — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:27:01 -0400

DARE is a local http server that makes it easy to create, test, and package AIR applications. It allows you to develop and test using your HTML/JS tools of choice and just a web browser.

Amongst all the Adobe Media Player and Adobe TV articles that swamped my RSS Feed Reader today, there was a lone but very interesting article from Ted Patrick - DARE.

Wrapping A FOAF Document Into A Strongly Typed Class

Mads Kristensen — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:33:39 -0400

I've been looking deeply into FOAF lately and last week I worked on a parser that could wrap a FOAF document into a strongly typed class for easy consumption by C#.

Now I want to share it with anyone interested. It appears there are no FOAF parsers available in C# yet. I wasn't able to find any.

The parser

The class FoafParser has two public methods, Parse and ParseFriendsAsync, which handles two different approaches in fetching FOAF documents.

The Parse method

Adobe AIR PocketGuide For JavaScript Developers

Brajeshwar Oinam — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:28:39 -0400

The Adobe AIR PocketGuide Book for JavaScript developers is written by the members of the AIR Team itself. The book introduces developers to Adobe AIR who are interested in building AIR Applications using Javascript, HTML and CSS.

Reading Mike Chambers latest post let me to Ajaxian's article on the release of the free eBook - Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers Pocketguide.