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Google offers help transplanting your blog
Google on Friday released an open-source project, Google Blog Converters, intended to help people move their blogs from one service to another. There are a number of popular publishing systems for housing blogs, some of them services and some of them...
Google Blog Converters 1.0 Released
Blog authors around the world, Google would like to remind you that it's your blog, your data. Now that Blogger allows users the ability to export all contents of their blog, the Data Liberation team would like to announce the Google Blog Converters ...
FreshBooks time tracking iPhone app is now open sourced!
Many an iPhone enthusiast (like this writer) have attempted to write a native iPhone app. But many of them (like this writer) have failed to do so due to the fact that there aren’t many native iPhone apps examples available.Thankfully, there is now...
Open source development - the recent trend in IT
An Open source software is the one whose codes are available free and is open to all. Anyone can get those codes, modify them and use for coding similar kinds of application. In an IT industry the same thing happens. Once a developer gains knowledge ...
Top 10 Websites of 2008
2008 has seen the rise of yet more interactive applications and websites online as the web creeps closer and closer to having sites as interactive as desktop applications. Here’s my top 10 websites that I have been visiting and using over the past ...
10 Advanced PHP Tips To Improve Your Programming
PHP programming has climbed rapidly since its humble beginnings in 1995. Since then, PHP has become the most popular programming language for Web applications. Many popular websites are powered by PHP, and an overwhelming majority of scripts and Web ...
Wordpress Plugins - A Look At Whats Available
Wordpress first appeared in 2003 as is now used on thousands of websites. It is a simple open source blogging tool which is offered in two ways, either the hosted option or the free software download option.Wordpress offers many additional features w...
Google's 'Native Client' is a Go on Mac OS X
Google has released an alternative to Microsoft's ActiveX, the component object model (COM) used by developers to create software components with particular functions or sets of functions. The tool will run on Mac OS X, web experts say, allowing deve...
Microsoft to relaunch Live.com as a Facebook style social networking site
Microsoft will relaunch its Live.com search site as a search + social networking site in something that looks like Facebook.The new Live.com will be focused on social interactions around Windows Live Messenger (previously MSN Messenger) complete with...
Microsoft launches open-source blogging platform
On Monday, Microsoft launched Oxite, an open-source blogging platform.However, the software maker was quick to underline that the product is aimed at developers and not intended to directly compete with popular blogging software such as WordPress or ...
Sun's JavaFX Scripting Tools Counter Ajax, Flex
Sun Microsystems (NSDQ: JAVA) is launching its JavaFX scripting language for building rich Internet applications to rival those built with Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE)'s Flex, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)'s Silverlight, and open source Ajax. It will also answer a ne...
How To: Integrating Amazon CDN in 4 Simple Steps
4 Steps to Integrate Amazon CloudFrontWe aren't going to focus on the exact coding required to integrate with CloudFront -- Amazon does a fine job of this themselves. What we want is to explain the steps you would take and point out things that you n...
Google Chrome Browser To Support Customization
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has launched an effort to make it possible for developers to offer ad-blocking and other extensions for Chrome, a move that would give the Google Web browser the same level of customization as Mozilla Firefox. The ability to insta...
Drupal Wins Two Awards For Best CMS Of 2008
Drupal the open source CMS system has this year scooped two separate prestigious awards for Best CMS system of 2008, picking up both The Open Source CMS Award for 2008 along with the Packt Publishing Best PHP Open Source CMS for 2008.The Drupal Assoc...
Ways to edit Joomla templates
You must have read a lot about editing a Joomla template. Here is how actually you can do this.Prior to actually editing Joomla templates, you need to ask yourself why do you want to change or edit it. PinPoint what you actually want to change. Once ...
Drupal in Education and E-Learning Now Available
Drupal for Education and E-Learning is now available from Packt Publishing. This book covers Drupal 6, and describes how to build a community site to support teaching and learning. This book is designed for people new to Drupal, with no prior develop...
20 Reasons Why I Choose WordPress
1. WordPress is FreeWhether you are using a hosted WordPress.com or opt to install the script on your own web server, WordPress is made available gratis. It costs you nothing to use. Who says “There is no free lunch in this world?2. Easy to SetupIn...
Motivation in open source
As my focus was mainly on discussing about open source projects, while I was preparing my presentation, I made a thinking exercise. And I noted down the motivational factors for developing open source applications. Let’s go through the list.* Passi...
Apple attacks open source iTunes replacements
Apple’s moderately popular ipod line has always been a POS. It’s overpriced, uner featured, and generally overrated. It is an expensive toy that has limited use, not being able to open up most media formats known to man (such as .wav or .ogg). Ne...
Ultra Light Startups: Open Source Content Management Systems
"The cost of launching a tech venture is continually falling, due to a large number of interrelated technical, social, and financial factors." - The statement couldn't be more true, it's simply becoming easier and less expensive to build and launch a...
PHP developer myths
1# Using single quotes for your strings rather than double quotes can yield a substantial speed boost.This is one of the most commonly repeated performance myths about PHP. Whether you use double quotes or single quotes is pretty much beside the poin...
Why do .NET developers fear open source?
The fear in the .NET community of alternative tools, especially open source ones, is doing a lot of harm to us. There’s a paraphrase I learned from the ALT.NET movement that goes “No one ever got fired for choosing Microsoft” (I think the origi...
WordPress 2.6.5 in detail
WordPress 2.6.5 has been released and includes a number of changes including one security fix, here is a list of the changes in detail: * Added a check for the correct post_type to blogger.editPost and blogger.deletePost (#8267). * Updates to u...
Google Analytic and Joomla
Google Analytics is a free website tracking tool which helps you understand your website’s visitor. We highly recommend it, and in this post will run you through how to add Google Analytics to either Joomla 1.5 or Joomla 1.0.1x. We have broken down...
PRADO - Component Framework for PHP 5
PRADO is a component-based and event-driven programming framework for developing Web applications in PHP 5. PRADO stands for PHP Rapid Application Development Object-oriented. A range of web applications have been built using the PRADO Framework.Ther...
Welcome Bug Fixes In Joomla 1.5.8
On November 10th just 2 months after the release of Joomla 1.5.7 the Joomla development team (Development Working Group’s) released the new version (1.5.8) of one of the most popular content management systems. The release is composed of bug fixes ...
Facebook and YouTube plug-ins for Windows Live
I've always found it pointless to use Windows Live applications if they don't work together with the online services that I already use. Well, recently released plug-ins are about to change that, and make a lot of people happy in the process. With ju...
Singularity: Microsoft's Open Source Operating System
The Singularity project was started in 2003 as a fundamental redesign of how operating systems work. From the ground up everything is based on the concepts of isolation and verifiability.Processes are highly isolated from one-another. Communication i...
WordPress vs. Drupal - Content Management Systems
WordpressThe first CMS to highlight is called WordPress (which is what Make Use Of runs on). WordPress was started in 2003 and is released as free, open-source software, meaning it is developed for and by the community. WordPress is a very functional...
Adobe wants to bridge gap between PCs and cloud
Microsoft’s power with programmers is tethered to desktops and laptops, the vast majority of which run Windows. Google is trying to dominate what it believes is the new frontier, cloud computing, where applications run on the Web. Adobe, though, is...
