• Normally smartphone events are tightly coupled to your phone device itself. When your cell phone is ringing, your phone speaker plays a ringtone. When you get a new text message, your phone displays it on its screen. Wouldn't it be thrilling to make thoses phone events visible somewhere else, on your wearable, in your living room, on your robot, in your office or where ever you want it to occur? Or would you like to use your smartphone sensors, like the accelerometer, light sensor, compass or your touchscreen to control other devices? 'android meets arduino' is a toolkit, basically consisting of an Android application and an Arduino library which will help you to interface with your phone in a new dimension. You can build your own interfaces almost without any programming experience.
  • Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments
  • DOSBox is a DOS-emulator that uses the SDL-library which makes DOSBox very easy to port to different platforms. DOSBox has already been ported to many different platforms, such as Windows, BeOS, Linux, MacOS X…

    DOSBox also emulates CPU:286/386 realmode/protected mode, Directory FileSystem/XMS/EMS, Tandy/Hercules/CGA/EGA/VGA/VESA graphics, a SoundBlaster/Gravis Ultra Sound card for excellent sound compatibility with older games…

  • Native Client is Google's technology to host native applications in the browser.  It is not ActiveX and it is not Java.  I will let you go to the Google Native Client site to learn more, but suffice to say that it is going to change everything (I hope!). 

    When I first read about Native Client, I was struck by the possibilities.  The more I thought about Native Client, the more I started to talk to my coworkers about Native Client as "The Plugin to Rule Them All."  The project is open source and I have been following the development of the project for years now.  In the beginning, it was esoteric CPU architecture stuff, but it has recently started to become high level.  As I write this in mid-2011 on the eve of Google IO 2011, I can definitely see that they are nearing release.

  • Readability is a browser bookmarklet that takes a crack at wiping out all that junk so you can have a more enjoyable reading experience. It works with all the latest browsers and its success rate is pretty respectable (we'd guess over 90% of web sites are handled properly).
  • Version control, also known as source control or revision control is an integral part of any development workflow. Why? It is essentially a communication tool, just like email or IM, but it works with code rather than human conversation.
  • The PHP Fog application stack is designed to provide reliability, easy of use, scalability, and speed. From the incoming HTTP request to the delivery of your critical data and features, we’ve baked in redundancies and optimizations in every piece of the stack to deliver reliability and speed. We’ve talked to thousands of customers to understand the pain points and build an infrastructure that automates scalability and makes deployment and management of applications easy. Developers love us, and IT departments need us.
    (tags: hosted php)

  • DBDesigner 4 is a visual database design system that integrates database design, modeling, creation and maintenance into a single, seamless environment.

    It combines professional features and a clear and simple user interface to offer the most efficient way to handle your databases.

  • Design, publish and share database schemas and let your community enhance, discuss and search on them easily.
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  • E is a new text editor for Windows, with powerful editing features and quite a few unique abilities. It makes manipulating text fast and easy, and lets you focus on your writing by automating all the manual work. You can extend it in any language, and by supporting TextMate bundles, it allows you to tap into a huge and active community
    (tags: editor)
  • DACP is similar to the well-known DAAP, using Bonjour MDNS to find libraries, then using HTTP requests with binary responses to transfer data. After a few days in front of packet dumps, I have most of DACP decoded.

    With the protocol now reverse engineered, I wrote an Android client in about a week. Now you can remote control your iTunes from your new Android phone when it arrives later this year. This works out of the box without installing any extra software on your PC or Mac. Here's a quick video in action on the emulator:

  • Bonjour, also known as zero-configuration networking, enables automatic discovery of computers, devices, and services on IP networks using industry standard IP protocols. It is a key component of Apple applications (e.g., iTunes, iPhoto), services (e.g., MobileMe) and devices (e.g., Apple TV, and Airport). Developers can easily leverage Bonjour from both Mac OS X and iOS.
  • The specification for IPv4 Link-Local Addressing is complete, but the work to improve network ease-of-use (Zero Configuration Networking) continues. That means making it possible to take two laptop computers, and connect them with a crossover Ethernet cable, and have them communicate usefully using IP, without needing a man in a white lab coat to set it all up for you. Zeroconf is not limited to networks with just two hosts, but as we scale up our technologies to larger networks, we always have to be sure we haven't forgotten the two-devices (and no DHCP server) case.
  • Bonjour can do some pretty rad stuff. It can automatically find and configure printers on the local network, discover webservers and automatically present a list of them to Safari, have text (or A/V) chats and send files over iChat to other network users, and stream music and photos using iTunes and iPhoto. But Bonjour isn’t just limited to Apple’s own, oh no, an increasing number of developers are improving their applications by adding Bonjour technology. For example, SubEthaEdit and VoodooPad Pro both use Bonjour to share and collaborate on documents, Address-O-Sync uses it to syncronise address books across networked Macs, and a Bonjour Browser has even been crafted to show all bonjour services currently being broadcast.

  • Aiki Framework is a flexible free and open source web 2.0 platform that allows programmers to easily create and work with content management systems. Aiki Framework saves all the controllers and output templates in a database or any other storage system. This makes Aiki easy to use and easy to customize.
  • BioBlender is a software package built on the open-source 3D modeling software Blender.

    Biology works at nanoscale, with objects invisible to the human eye. With BioBlender it is possible to show some of the characters that populate our cells, based on scientific data and the highest standard of 3D manipulation. Scientists all over the world study proteins at atomic level and deposit information in the public repository Protein Data Bank, where each molecule is described as the list of its atoms and their 3D coordinates.

  • The man, the myth, the legend: John Carmack. He's considered the greatest programmer of his type in the entire world, and he's stunned the gaming community numerous times with each new 3D engine he's created. We had an opportunity to talk to Carmack about the "good old days" five years ago when he and id Software were in full Doom swing. What does he think of the Doom engine now? What does he think of Doom now? Where did the name "Doom" come from? It's all right here!
  • This is a copy of the source code for DOOM's executable, v1.10 (public release version). This source code was initially released under the DOOM license in 1997, but then dual licensed (DOOM/GPL) in 1997 to encourage transparency in the development of ports and extensions of the DOOM game engines. A copy of the source under the DOOM license may be obtained at id Software's FTP, or at one of its mirrors on /idgames in the /idstuff/source directory.