Amazon SimpleDB is a new service, part of the Amazon Web Services family, which offers a scalable, cloud-based database solution. In this post we will discuss how we (AdaptiveBlue) are using SimpleDB instead of a traditional relational database to power Glue, our popular browser add-on.
Link: How and Why Glue is Using Amazon SimpleDB instead of a Relational Database
Flash Player 10 and Adobe AIR 1.5 introduce a new communications protocol called the Real-Time Media Flow Protocol (RTMFP). The most important features of RTMFP include low latency, end-to-end peering capability, security and scalability. These properties make RTMFP especially well suited for developing real-time collaboration applications by not only providing superior user experience but also reducing cost for operators.
The jQuery SWFObject plugin is an addon for jQuery that offers SWFObject's unique functionality of embedding Flash content using the internal jQuery API.
Link: jQuery SWFObject Plugin
Joel and Jeff, with special guest Eric Sink of SourceGear, discuss source control present and future, why writing a compiler is an important rite of passage for programmers, and how budding software engineers should be educated.
Link: Blog – Stack Overflow
Fireclip, a free plug-in that monitors specific sections of web pages, puts the at-a-glance convenience of the OS X widget screen in a Firefox tab.
Link: Fireclip Brings Mac-Like Web Clipping to Firefox
ActiveRecord.js makes it easy to begin working with databases in JavaScript on the client or server, with Aptana Jaxer, Google Gears & Chrome, Adobe AIR or any platform supporting the W3C HTML5 SQL Specification (currently Webkit and iPhone).
Link: Introducing ActiveRecord.js – Cross Browser, Cross Platform, JavaScript ORM
Automated testing for your web applications is an important step in having the confidence to make changes to your application, and still be confident you’re delivering a quality, regression-free product. With Zend Framework’s testing framework (built with PHPUnit), you can build a thorough suite of test cases for your web application with very little hassle.
Link: Automated Testing Using Zend Framework, Part 1 | A.J. Brown’s Blog
Today (1/14/09), the jQuery project turns 3 years old which, considering the churn rate for open source projects, is a monumental achievement. So it makes sense that on the project’s 3rd birthday, the team has announced the release of jQuery v1.3, the latest and greatest release of jQuery which includes the new Sizzle selector engine.
Link: Happy Birthday jQuery! v1.3 is Released
I found this to be quite interesting…
In March 2008, Trent Reznor's Nine Inch Nails released the first part of Ghosts I-IV via BitTorrent, and released all four albums under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license. Even though fans could easily get free versions of the album, Ghosts actually went on to become the best-selling album of 2008 on Amazon's MP3 store.
Link: Amazon’s Best-Selling Album Download of 2008 Was Available for Free – ReadWriteWeb
An overview of how to create shell scripts using PHP and the Command Line Interface (CLI).
Link: Johan Mares " Running PHP CLI shell scripts
