links for 2008-03-06

ajax based social network bookmark widget

What you should know about IE8

WaveMaker Visual Ajax Studio is a visual builder that helps ceating web-applications using Ajax widgets, web services and databases. Best of all, it does not require complex codes, forms, patterns or portal frameworks.

The Datetime Toolbocks is a pure JavaScript library using DHTML and advanced date parsing to generate the date based on the grammar passed. The purpose is to simplify the date entering process using common terms we are all familiar with.

This preference pane add-on allows you to tweak hundreds of hidden or “secret” preferences on your Mac to make it work even better for you. Secrets is a fresh take on the best way to customize your Mac.

Designed as a native iPhone application, iChinese will train you writing and reading of Chinese characters. iChinese’ lessons are based on well-known training courses, like “Practical Chinese Reader”.

Webby is a fantastic little website management system. It would be called a content management system if it were a bigger kid. But, it’s just a runt with a special knack for transforming text.

Ruby: Replace method_missing with dynamic method definitions

The next-generation open source framework
for Ruby-based Web-applications.

Developing Rails Applications on Mac OS X Leopard

Lovable font-family for your site

This tutorial is going to show everything you need to know to use Caching in your Rails applications, so when you get digg’d or slashdot’d you won’t be left begging your hosting provider for more CPU processing power.

memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.

Welcome to the memcached wiki

memcached

An interface to the libmemcached C client.