Free Programming Q & A

I found a site that might be useful for all of you, Stack Overflow. It is a programming Q & A site that's free. Free to ask questions, free to answer questions, free to read, free to index, built with plain old HTML, no fake rot13 text on the home page, no scammy google-cloaking tactics, no salespeople. You can register if you want to collect karma and win valuable flair that will appear next to your name, but otherwise, it's just free. And fast. Very, very fast.

Stack Overflow is collaboratively built and maintained by your fellow programmers. Once the system learns to trust you, you'll be able to edit anything, much like Wikipedia. With your help, we can build good answers to every imaginable programming question together. No matter what programming language you use, or what operating system you call home -- better programming is our goal.

Google Maps API supports Reverse Geocoding

Recently, google maps api just supports Reverse Geocoding. And, Google Static Maps API now features satellite and terrain tiles.

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/services.html#ReverseGeocoding
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/staticmaps

Javascript MVC

I found two frameworks that allow you to develop application that follows MVC pattern in Javascript.
Personally, I like TrimJunction, a part of TrimPath. Moreover, it supports gears synchronization.

http://javascriptmvc.com/
http://code.google.com/p/trimpath/wiki/TrimJunction

Google App Engine

Google App Engine lets you run your web applications on Google's infrastructure. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow. With App Engine, there are no servers to maintain: You just upload your application, and it's ready to serve your users.

You can serve your app using a free domain name on the appspot.com domain, or use Google Apps to serve it from your own domain. You can share your application with the world, or limit access to members of your organization.

App Engine costs nothing to get started. Sign up for a free account, and you can develop and publish your application for the world to see, at no charge and with no obligation. A free account can use up to 500MB of persistent storage and enough CPU and bandwidth for about 5 million page views a month.

During the preview release of Google App Engine, only free accounts are available. In the near future, you will be able to purchase additional computing resources.

You just need a phone number (Camshin for Cambodia) to receive sms for verification.

http://code.google.com/appengine/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfgO-LXGpTM

Google launches internet browser

Yesterday, Google just launches internet browser called Google Chrome. See news on BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7593106.stm
and http://www.google.com/chrome.

It is an open source web browser to compete with Internet Explorer and Firefox. It is also include an open source JavaScript engine (V8), written in C++ and is used in this new browser.
http://code.google.com/p/v8/
http://code.google.com/apis/v8/intro.html
http://blogoscoped.com/google-chrome/

FUEL

FUEL (Firefox User Extension Library) is a JavaScript Library designed to help developers build extensions using terminology and interfaces that are familiar to them.
FUEL is new in Firefox 3 and will be backported to Firefox 2 as well. ​​​​​​It will be usable in Firefox 1.5-3.0.

FUEL is about making it easier for extension developers to be productive, by minimizing some of the XPCOM formality and adding some "modern" JavaScript ideas. We want to start with areas that will provide the most benefit.

FUEL is Firefox-only for the time being.

http://wiki.mozilla.org/FUEL
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/FUEL

Google Maps API for Flash Developer

A great new for flash/flex/actionscript developer. Now, Google just released an map API version for flash developer. It is cool.

Have a look at:
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/flash/intro.html
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/flash/reference.html

Google Chart API

One of the most interesting api that google just released called Google Chart API. It is a simple tool that lets you create many types of charts. Send an HTTP request that includes data and formatting parameters and the Chart API returns a PNG image of the chart. Embed in a webpage with an image tag and you're done!

Try it yourself...
http://code.google.com/apis/chart/

jYMSG - Yahoo! Instant Messenger Library for Java

I just founded and tested a java library called jYMSG that provides a way for Java applications to connect and use the Yahoo Instant Messenger protocol, version 10 (YMSG-10) in a reasonably coder friendly and abstract way.

It is very nice. Here are serveral link about yahoo messenger protocol:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YMSG
http://jymsg9.sourceforge.net/

Google Talk on Web

Now, Google Talk is available on the web. You don't need to install google talk client on your machine anymore. This web is very scalable, fast, and efficient. Check this out http://talkgadget.google.com/talkgadget/popout

QuirksMode

QuirksMode.org is the personal and professional site of Peter-Paul Koch, freelance web developer in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

It contains about 120 pages with CSS and JavaScript tips and tricks, and is one of the best sources on the WWW for studying and defeating browser incompatibilities. It is free of charge and ads, and largely free of copyrights.

QuirksMode.org contains free explanation and test pages about JavaScript and CSS. The problem is that there are so many pages. On this page you find a quick overview of all these resources, aimed at helping you find your way in them.

Check this out: http://www.quirksmode.org/

Digg

What is Digg? Digg is a community-based popularity website with an emphasis on technology and science articles, recently expanding to a broader range of categories such as politics and entertainment. It combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control.

Technology focused news site where the stories are chosen by community members rather than editors. Check this out by yourself for your reference. http://www.digg.com/

Google AJAX Feed API

Google announces the Google AJAX Feed API in the morning of Monday, April 16, 2007. It is an API that takes the pain out of developing mashups in JavaScript. Now you can mash up feeds using only a few lines of JavaScript rather than dealing with complex server-side proxies. Check this out http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxfeeds/ and http://googleajaxsearchapi.blogspot.com/. For PHP, there is a library called Magpie RSS. For Ruby, there is a built-in standard library and FeedTools.

Google Page Creator

Wow! I just know another product from Google. It called Google Page Creator. It is a free online tool that finally makes it easy for anyone to create and publish useful, attractive web pages in just minutes. It supports WYSIWYG. You can use up to 100MB of space for your pages and uploaded files. You need to have a Gmail account and be using either Internet Explorer 6.0 or Firefox 1.0, or higher, with JavaScript and cookies enabled. You will get the url like http://[username].googlepages.com/. Have a look at http://pages.google.com/.

ImageMagick

I just found another free software tools that dealing with image called ImageMagick. You can use it to modify or create images automagically and dynamically through a great deal of programming langugages such as: PHP, Ruby, Perl, Phython, and many other things. Check out this link: ImageMagick and Examples of ImageMagick Usage.

Adobe Color Scheme

Another blog's post from Joe Danziger is also very useful for backend developers. Do you want to expand your knowledge from backend developer with a designer's concept? Here, Adobe just launched http://kuler.adobe.com/, a very great color schemes for beginner designers that ever exist on the Internet.

Microsoft Released AJAX ASP.NET v1.0

Get it from http://ajax.asp.net/.