• Alltop
  We import the stories of the top news websites and blogs for any given topic and display the headlines of the five most recent stories. When you place the cursor over a headline, we display part of the story so that you can decide if you’d like to read
  (tags: aggregation aggregator news portal web2.0 community)
• https://terralien.devguard.com/svn/projects/plugins/query_trace/README
  Once you have QueryTrace installed, though, your logs won’t just tell you that you
  have a problem, they will pinpoint the location of that problem for you.
  (tags: database debugging optimization performance plugins plugin rails rubyonrails)
• Yours, Mine and Ours
  * MeWare: Developer creates software. Developer uses it. Nobody else does.
  * ThemWare: Developer creates software. Other people use it. Developer does not.
  * UsWare: Developer creates software. Other people use it. Developer uses it too.
  (tags: design programming usability software)
• 5 Amazing Mac Apps for Getting Things Done (Plus a Custom-Rigged Setup) | Zen Habits
  5 Amazing Mac Apps for Getting Things Done (Plus a Custom-Rigged Setup)
  (tags: application gtd mac productivity apple osx applications)
• alertle
  Alertle, A Toronto, Ontario startup is an RSS Reader that is focused on breaking out beyond the more technically inclined crowd that uses services like Google Reader and Bloglines.
  (tags: aggregation aggregator rss feeds web2.0 news feed)
• AS3 Cryptography Library
  As3 Crypto is a cryptography library written in Actionscript 3 that provides several common algorithms. This version also introduces a TLS engine (TLS is commonly known as SSL.)
  (tags: actionscript algorithms community component development crypto flash library encryption flex security)
• Prototip – Tooltips for prototype
  Prototip allows you to easily create both simple and complex tooltips using the Prototype javascript framework. If you also use Scriptaculous you can even add some nice effects to them.
  (tags: design development javascript prototype tooltip ajax scriptaculous tooltips web2.0)

• Aviary – Creation on the fly
  Aviary is a suite of web-based applications (RIAs) for people who create. From image editing to typography to music to 3D to video, we have a tool for artists of all genres.
  (tags: adobe air animation design graphics applications flex)
• phplist.com : Homepage : home
  phplist is an open-source newsletter manager. phplist is free to download, install and use, and is easy to integrate with any website.
  (tags: application php newsletter mailinglist opensource marketing business)
• fluorida – Google Code
  Fluorida is a Flex/Flash functional testing tool. It manipulates Flash just as real users do. As a tester, you write test cases with our simple but still expressive DSL.
  (tags: flex testing flash)
• Refocus Imaging
  Refocus Imaging, Inc. is an early-stage company headquartered in Mountain View, California. Refocus is taking the next big step in photography, transforming the camera into a powerful computational platform.
  (tags: image photo photography focus)
• q4e – Google Code
  Q is an Apache Maven plugin for Eclipse that will let you use Maven 2 from the Eclipse IDE

  This plugin better integrates the development and building processes by bringing Maven into the Integrated Development Environment (IDE).

  (tags: build development framework eclipse maven plugin java maven2 opensource plugins integration ide)
• Encyclopedia of Life
  Welcome to the first release of the Encyclopedia of Life portal. This is the very beginning of our exciting journey to document all species of life on Earth.
  (tags: academic science encyclopedia reference biology nature education life animals)
• Vista Icons, XP Style Icons – Windows Application Icon and Software XP Icons
  Quality Icons at Affordable Price
  (tags: icons design graphics icon webdesign resources desktop web creativity)
• Google’s Engineering Philosophy
  Google’s Engineering Philosophy
  (tags: google programming agile engineering development philosophy methodology inspiration)
• woork: Best resources on-line for color schemes generators
  Best resources on-line for color schemes generators
  (tags: color colors design development generator inspiration webdesign schemes)
• OpenSocial Presentation – GSP West 2008 – Google Docs
  (tags: google opensocial)

• mooSocialize – social bookmark widget, ajax based, add your post to the most common social networks
  ajax based social network bookmark widget
  (tags: ajax mootools social javascript socialbookmarking bookmarking bookmarks bookmark)
• IE 8 Details Announced At Mix 08 – InsideRIA
  What you should know about IE8
  (tags: ie browser browsers)
• WaveMaker Software™
  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.
  (tags: ajax programming web2.0 webdesign)
• Datetime Toolbocks – Intuitive Date Input Selection
  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.
  (tags: ajax calendar javascript plugin ruby rubyonrails rails date)
• Secrets
  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.
  (tags: apple application osx mac preferences reference)
• iChinese – learn Chinese characters on your iPhone!
  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”.
  (tags: apple chinese iphone language education ipodtouch learning)
• Webby :: Home
  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.
  (tags: cms ruby web framework webdev development gem)
• Jay Fields Thoughts: Ruby: Replace method_missing with dynamic method definitions
  Ruby: Replace method_missing with dynamic method definitions
  (tags: ruby metaprogramming rubyonrails programming rails ror)
• Ruby Waves: Home
  The next-generation open source framework
  for Ruby-based Web-applications.
  (tags: framework programming ruby mvc webdev rails ror waves)
• static-gmaps’s static-gmaps-0.0.3 Documentation
  (tags: gem gems geo google library maps plugin ruby)
• Developing Rails Applications on Mac OS X Leopard
  Developing Rails Applications on Mac OS X Leopard
  (tags: apple rails ruby osx rubyonrails leopard mac development programming)
• woork: Lovable font-family for your site
  Lovable font-family for your site
  (tags: css design font fonts html webdesign)
• Rails Envy: Ruby on Rails Caching Tutorial
  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.
  (tags: rails caching rubyonrails ruby tutorial cache performance programming deployment)
• Peleteiro’s log » Blog Archive » Memcached, libmemcached and ruby’s libmemcached on Leopard
  (tags: ruby rails caching memcached)
• memcached: a distributed memory object caching system
  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.
  (tags: memcached cache performance caching distributed programming architecture)
• memcached / memcached
  Welcome to the memcached wiki
  (tags: cache caching memcached wiki scalability opensource reference)
• Memcached – File: README
  memcached

  An interface to the libmemcached C client.

  (tags: caching gem gems library memcached ruby performance)

• SearchField
  SearchField is a simple lightweight, unobtrusive script that adds styling and behaviour to your search form fields.
  (tags: javascript css autocomplete ajax component)
• Secure Git hosting and collaborative development — GitHub
  GitHub is the easiest (and prettiest) way to participate in that collaboration: fork projects, send pull requests, monitor development, all with ease.
  (tags: collaboration deployment development git hosting scm versioncontrol repository programming svn)
• LearnHub | Teach and Learn online.
  LearnHub is for people who love learning and sharing knowledge with others. It is a set of tools that make learning online fun and engaging, and teaching online easy and effective.
  (tags: learning web2.0 community education)
• Ultrasphinx – File: README
  Ruby on Rails configurator and client to the Sphinx full text search engine.
  (tags: database development indexing fulltext rails sphinx search)
• LearnHub.com launches – Teach and Learn Online | StartupNorth
  (tags: learning learnhub startup toronto canada education elearning community)
• Gem Editor
  Gemedit lets you quickly open up the source for a gem in your favorite editor.
  (tags: editor gem ruby)

Savvica Inc announced today the public launch of their e-learning destination, LearnHub.com.

Pretty exciting news for me. Why I am so excited? Well, here is a little secret:

I will start to work for Savvica as a Ruby or Rails developer in less than two weeks.

What is LearnHub.com?

http://learnhub.com/about

LearnHub is for people who love learning and sharing knowledge with others. It is a set of tools that make learning online fun and engaging, and teaching online easy and effective.

Why should you care?

• If you want to learn something:

LearnHub not only helps you learn, but it helps you connect with other students and teachers. A comprehensive reputation system, authority, helps you find reputable teachers, who you can trust.

• If you want to share something:

Communities offer a showcase for your content, and a way to attract attention to your courses and tutoring. Courses allow you to sell your expertise. Tutoring allows you to sell your time. If you’re an expert teacher, LearnHub is the place to go to put up your content and let students find you.

By all means, LearnHub.com will become a new community for all of us, one of a kind community for learning and sharing.

People come to LearnHub.com everyday, but not the same people when they come out.

Want to know more?

• www.learnhub.com
• www.savvica.com
• LearnHub.com launches – Teach and Learn Online
• LearnHub Support

• cardkit – Google Code
  Story player is a tool to help BA analyzing the association of story cards, I call it ‘Story Player’.
  (tags: agile projectmanagement)
• Sphinx – Free open-source SQL full-text search engine
  Free open-source SQL full-text search engine
  (tags: search database fulltext opensource sql indexing)
• Gaia Flash Framework
  Gaia is a front-end Flash Framework designed to dramatically reduce development time.
  (tags: flash framework actionscript opensource development flex)
• Stomper Scrutinizer: Get Your Click Fu | StomperNet.com
  Stomper Scrutinizer: Get Your Click Fu
  (tags: browser testing ui usability vision webdev)
• Radiant CMS
  Radiant is a no-fluff, open source content management system designed for small teams.
  (tags: cms ruby rubyonrails opensource rails)
• TaskFreak! web based task manager / todo list written in PHP
  TaskFreak! is a simple but efficient web based task manager written in PHP.
  (tags: ajax application php productivity gtd opensource todo bugtracking business)
• HTML Purifier – Filter your HTML the standards-compliant way!
  HTML Purifier is a standards-compliant HTML filter library written in PHP.
  (tags: accessibility php html security filter web)

• The Unofficial Ruby Usage Guide
  (tags: ruby programming reference guide tutorial development)

• JavaScriptMVC – Include
  Include makes it simple to include and compress JavaScript files no matter how complex the dependencies. Focus on organization with logically separated JavaScript files.
  (tags: javascript compression optimization performance library)
• Git.tmbundle – Gitorious
  The official repository for the Git text-mate bundle.
  (tags: textmate git bundle mac osx)
• rush
  rush is a replacement for the unix shell (bash, zsh, etc) which uses pure Ruby syntax. Grep through files, find and kill processes, copy files – everything you do in the shell, now in Ruby.
  (tags: ruby shell rush console command)
• Overview
  GemInstaller provides automated management of RubyGems.
  (tags: rails ruby gems rubyonrails deployment)
• Vendor Everything — err.the_blog
  The solution we’ve come up with is to throw every Ruby dependency in vendor.
  (tags: deployment gem plugin rails gems ruby rubyonrails development plugins)
• Get Satisfaction – People-Powered Customer Service
  Get Satisfaction is a place where people can get the most from the products they use, and where companies are encouraged to get real with their customers.
  (tags: customerservice community web2.0 collaboration consumer support)
• Review Board
  Code reviews are fun again! …almost.
  (tags: agile codeanalysis codereview collaboration community development programming review)

• Revision 9016: /trunk/Bundles
  (tags: textmate bundles mac osx)
• Ubercart! A free open source e-commerce shopping cart
  Ubercart is a shopping cart and e-commerce suite built on top of the leading open source CMS, Drupal.
  (tags: business cms community drupal ecommerce opensource php)
• rococoa: Welcome to Rococoa
  Rococoa is a generic Java binding to the Mac Objective-C object system. It allows the creation and use of Objective-C objects in Java, and the implementation of Objective-C interfaces in Java.
  (tags: apple cocoa java mac osx)
• YARB: How to Handle Facebook App Uninstalls with RFacebook
  How to Handle Facebook App Uninstalls with RFacebook
  (tags: facebook rails rfacebook ruby)

1. Democamp Toronto 17

Democamp Toronto 17 is absolutely another great event again! More than 300 people have attended.

Only want to highlight two here:

• AskItOnline is a online survey system created by Kaitlyn MacLachlan totally on her own. It is a pretty beautiful and useful application. Kaitlyn wins the best demo prize.
• Ignite presentation “The State of Wireless in Canada Sucks” from Tom Purves could be the best ignite presentation in the history of Democamp Toronto so far. Well done, Tom!

Joey Devilla had a very detail post on the schedules, please check it out here. I believe he will post some more tonight soon.

Check out the official site of Democamp Toronto too: http://democamp.info/

2. Adobe Flex 3.0 and Air 1.0

Finally, its On – Flex 3.0 and Adobe AIR 1.0 Are Here!

3. Haxies updated! It works on Leopard!

Haxies – Love it or hate it!

In computing, a Haxie is a term which was coined by developer Unsanity to describe their products. It is a blend of “hack” and “Mac OS X”. Unsanity uses it to refer to “hacks” that are specifically designed for use with its Application Enhancer (APE) software. These are typically small interface and functionality tweaks to the system or existing applications by injecting code into programs as they load.

Until yesterday, all the haxies which come from Unsanity or other companies didn’t work on Leopard, all of them. It is a real pain for somebody who loves these little, cute and useful hack tools, such as me.

After several months hard work, the development team in Unsanity finally bring them back to Leopard today: Enthusiastic Trepidation!

Here are some of them what I use all the time:

WindowShade X. It minimizes your windows on desktop, or shades them.

FontCard. It shows a WYSIWYG font menu for your applications.

FruitMenu. It helps you easily access everything from your menu.

Menu Master. It helps you to create shortcut keys for any menu items of any your applications.

Big day today, by all means!