Before or after you’re sharing your own code as open-source, you might find yourself itching to fix someone else’s code. Here is how to do it.

LiveValidation is a small open source javascript library built for giving users real-time validation information as they fill out forms.

Great summary of the need for data rights. I’m looking at YOU facebook!

Flash implementation. Removes the least significant bits of images when resizing, compressing it by important pixels. You lose spacing, but it’s better than cropping….

Webistrano is a Web UI for managing Capistrano deployments. It lets you manage projects and their stages like test, production, and staging with different settings. Those stages can then be deployed with Capistrano through Webistrano.

This poem was made into a song by Gustav Mahler. Later, Goethe recited it upon his deathbed before crying out “More Light! More Light!” Later, Anthony Hecht wrote a poem called “More Light! More Light!” Later, I made www.morelightmorelight.com

This tool allows you to compare two versions of an assembly, and determine the differences. The tool reports the differences as a combination of ‘removed’ and ‘added’ APIs

soapUI is a free and open source application for inspecting, invoking, developing, simulating/mocking and functional/load/compliance testing of web services over HTTP. It is mainly aimed at developers/testers providing and/or consuming web services.

I recently needed to do this. The best tip was in the contents:
subst v: %SystemRoot%\assembly
now you’ve got a v: drive mapped to the gac that doesn’t get the MS viewer.

Galls is a great place for all sorts of things you didn’t know you were allowed to buy. You haven’t even begun to mine the cool things they have here.

Medill operates an internationally recognized one-year journalism master’s degree program. It is intended for students who didn’t study journalism as undergraduates and may have no previous journalism experience. Over the course of a year, students acquir

Treemap centric list of some visualizations of data. The treemap is a great way of presenting drilldown data.

AntiLeech does not prevent the splogger bots from accessing your site. It produces a fake set of content especially for them that includes links back to your site (and mine, too, ok?) and sends it only to them. When they steal this content, it appears onl

Okay, this made me laugh out loud. There is nothing subtle about this page, is there? Wubi gives you explanations and whatnot, but this just says CLICK HERE AND LEAVE MICROSOFT.
I’ll bite.

1: Human interface cognitive load is proportional to the number of clicks/keystrokes/gestures
2: Human interface cognitive load is proportional to interface latency
3: The usability of an interface is inversely geometrically proportional to its cognit

Wubi is an unofficial Ubuntu installer for Windows users that will bring you into the Linux world with a few clicks. Wubi allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other application.

Learn a foriegn language as a podcast!

Awesome. Upload images or type in text. Generates a printable pdf that is your new wallet.
Super sweet.

Ok, I’ll bite. I think that customer service investment is a really good sign as well. On the other hand, I bought a bunch of stocks based on the “It’s a good place to work” theory. None are making any money.

A strange other world documented in a strange other language.

Free coursebook on powershell, the .net c# windows scripting language that no one really uses.

Luigi Serafini wrote a 350 page book from another world. It is hand illustrated and written in an alien language and alphabet. Though Serafina is still alive, there is no translation, no explanation, no background. The Believer researches this outsider

I want something that looks nicer and is friendlier than squirrelmail.

This project is meant to be a modern webmail solution which is easy to install/configure and that runs on a standard PHP/MySQL configuration. The skins use the latest web standards such as XHTML and CSS 2.

Assign ugly little numbers to your documents to prove you wrote it first. Comes with wordpress plugin so no one can steal stuffs from your BLAG.

A community of vouchors charged with verifying web user identities. Anyone can become a vouchor by being vouched by someone already vouched. They review your papers in person and verify your identity online. Once you are vouched online, you are a vouchor.

IMP is the Internet Messaging Program. It is written in PHP and provides webmail access to IMAP and POP3 accounts.
better looking than squirrelmail