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Archive for the ‘tools’ Category

35 Source Code Editors

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

With a list of 35 Source Code Editors to experiment with it would be nice to see statements on web sites saying - No WYSIWYG’s woken for this site. Real designers understand the code.

Opera Dragonfly ALPHA

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Opera Dragonfly ALPHA gets a few raves today on TechCrunch and Web Worker Daily. Its an Opera alternative to Firebug which looks very promising.

Times

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

A new and sexy looking RSS Reader for the Mac comes out of Acrylic called Times. Some people seem to like it and others say its slow. While I don’t have a Mac to check this one out it strikes me as one of those products with an instant like / dislike factor and that, my marketing friends, is a very good thing.

New Relic BETA

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

New Relic BETA offers the ability to drill down and measure your Ruby on Rails performance.

SilverStripe

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

SilverStripe looks like an interesting Content Management System option, standards compliant, open source, cross platform, template freedom. Worth a look.

WebKit Implements ARIA

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Gez Lemon notes that WebKit, the framework behind Safari and other browsers, is now starting to implement WAI-ARIA (Web Accessibility Initiative - Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite) bringing all four major browsers to support it to some degree.

Project Pier

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Project Pier is a free open source self-hosted PHP application for managing tasks, projects and teams thorugh an intuitive web interface.

Zoho

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Zoho is an online project management tool which allows you to create tasks, assign owners and set milestones, with a calendar, reports, time tracking and file sharing.