January 2010
SimpleDB Performance : 5 Steps to Achieving High...
rooksfury:
I was recently tasked with fork-lifting ~1 billion rows from Oracle into SimpleDB. I completed this forklift in November 2009 after many attempts. To make this as efficient as possible, I worked closely with Amazon’s SimpleDB folks to troubleshoot performance problems and create new APIs. I’d like to share some recommendations and observations.
Although I have covered these...
Cappuccino Web Framework - Build Desktop Class... →
Cappuccino is an open source framework that makes it easy to build desktop-caliber applications that run in a web browser.
Home – Lilina News Aggregator →
Lilina is an open source feed news aggregator programmed in PHP. It supports RSS and Atom, the standards for syndication and can import from OPML, the standard for feed sharing.
It is powered by 2 awesome PHP libraries, HTML Purifier and SimplePie. Thanks also go to MagpieRSS, without whom the early versions of Lilina would not have been possible.
Lilina is developed by Ryan McCue, with...
1 Bit Audio Player : A JavaScript-inserted Flash... →
1 Bit Audio Player is a very simple and lightweight Adobe Flash MP3 player with automatic JavaScript insertion. It’s main purpose is to act as a quick in-page preview for audio files you link to from your website or blog.
The player can be easily installed as a WordPressplugin or used stand-alone in any website. Small audio players will than automatically appear next to any MP3s you link...
HyperGraphDB - A Graph Database →
HyperGraphDB is a general purpose, extensible, portable, distributed, embeddable, open-source data storage mechanism. It is a graph database designed specifically for artificial intelligence and semantic web projects, it can also be used as an embedded object-oriented database for projects of all sizes.
The system is reliable and in production use is several projects, including a search engine...
The PHP Benchmark →
PHPBench.com was constructed as a way to open people’s eyes to the fact that not every PHP code snippet will run at the same speed. You may be surprised at the results that this page generates, but that is ok. This page was also created so that you would be able to find discovery in these statistics and then maybe re-run these tests in your own server environment to play around with this...
phpMoAdmin - MongoDB GUI administration tool for... →
Nothing to configure - place the moadmin.php file anywhere on your web site and it just works!
Fast AJAX-based XHTML 1.1 interface operates consistently in every browser!
Self-contained in a single 75kb file!
Works on any version of PHP5 with the MongoDB NoSQL database installed & running.
Option to enable password-protection for one or more users; to activate protection, just add the...
Markercss: maquetación web con css →
Código open source para maquetación de páginas web, flexible y rápido, basado en estandares CSS.
stop-spam-referer-php-script - Project Hosting on... →
Compatible with all PHP Scripts ( CMS, Blogs, Forums … )
Really easy install - two minuts
Stop bad referers ( domains list )
Stop domains by keywords
Bandwidth safe
Spam protect for your website
Referers custom Black List
Referers custom White List
Keywords White List
IP block custom
Light and fast PHP script ( 3.8 ko )
No reduce performances
No database required...
MediaCore | Video, Audio, and Podcast Publication... →
MediaCore is a free open source video, audio, and podcast publishing platform. It is built for organizations who wish to distribute media in a variety of formats on their website while maintaining the ability to control the user experience.
The purpose behind MediaCore was to make a central media library that could pull media from any source, track statistics, enable commenting, and provide a...
OpenFaces →
OpenFaces is an open-source library of AJAX-powered JSF components, an Ajax framework and a client-side validation framework. OpenFaces is based on the set of JSF components formerly known as QuipuKit. It contains fully revised codebase of QuipuKit and introduces many new components and features.
OpenFaces is distributed under a dual license model. It means that you can choose between using the...
naev - Project Hosting on Google Code →
NAEV is a 2D space trading and combat game, in a similar vein to Escape Velocity.
NAEV is played from a top-down perspective, featuring fast-paced combat, many ships and outfits, and a large galaxy to explore. The game is highly open-ended, letting players proceed at their own paces.
We’re always open to feedback and contributions, you can contact us via IRC.
For those using Ubuntu (or...
Home - cssembed - GitHub →
CSSEmbed is a simple utility to automate creation of CSS files with embedded data URIs. It can read in any CSS file, detect the image files referenced, and then replace them with data URIs. The result is a CSS file that is exactly the same as the original with the exception that all valid image files have been replaced with data URIs.
Simple Cloud API →
The Simple Cloud API brings cloud technologies to PHP and the PHPilosophy to the cloud, starting with common interfaces for three cloud application services:
File Storage Services
Document Storage Services
Simple Queue Services
You can start writing scalable, highly available, and resilient cloud applications that are portable across all major cloud vendors today.
Zend has invited the open...
WAVE - Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool →
WAVE is a free web accessibility evaluation tool provided by WebAIM. It is used to aid humans in the web accessibility evaluation process. Rather than providing a complex technical report, WAVE shows the original web page with embedded icons and indicators that reveal the accessibility of that page.
nginx news →
nginx [engine x] is a HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev. It has been running for more than five years on many heavily loaded Russian sites including Rambler (RamblerMedia.com). According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 4.24% busiest sites in January 2010. Here are some of success stories: FastMail.FM, Wordpress.com.
pythonicjavascript - Project Hosting on Google... →
Javascript with Python Syntax. No more vestigial memes of braces and brackets littering your code.
jaxl - Project Hosting on Google Code →
JAXL stands for “Jabber XMPP Library”. For fun, JAXL stands for “Just Another XMPP Library”. JAXL is written in PHP.
Download Version 1.0.4. Checkout from trunk for bug fixed code. Read Changelog file for details.
This library currently supports following features:
Connect to a Jabber Server (Gtalk, EJabberd, Openfire, …)
TLS Encryption
DIGEST-MD5 and PLAIN...
jai - javascript audio interface →
J.A.I. or “Javascript Audio Interface” is the world’s first javascript interface for web <audio>. JAI uses no images for it’s player interface, all the graphics are rendered to a <canvas> element at run-time. The click-able play-list area is a list of links that are style using CSS. JAI is designed to provide juke-box functionality to <audio> enabled...
jspdf - Project Hosting on Google Code →
jsPDF is an open-source library for generating PDF documents using nothing but Javascript. You can use it in a Firefox extension, in Server Side Javascript and with Data URIs in some browsers.
Fluidium - Open Source, Mac-Only Rich Internet... →
Fluidium is an open-source platform for developing Rich Internet Applications that run as native Mac OS X desktop apps. Fluidium is much like Adobe Air, except open source (liberal Apache license), and exclusive to the Mac.
Increasingly, new applications are being written as web apps, but native Cocoa applications still provide the best user experience on Mac OS X. Using Fluidium, you can wrap...
MyClientBase | Free and Open Source Web Based... →
MyClientBase is a simple, intuitive, free and open source web based invoice management system developed with freelancers in mind.
WebApp.Net →
WebApp.Net is a light weight, powerful javascript framework taking advantage of AJAX technology. It provides a full set of ready to use components to help you develop, quickly and easily, advanced mobile web applications.
glype proxy script - free anonymous proxies list →
Glype proxy script is a free-to-use, web-based proxy script written in PHP. Similar to a typical proxy server, a web-proxy script downloads requested web pages and files and forwards them back to the user. The service is provided by a web page itself, which allows instant access to the proxy without editing your browser connection settings.
Web proxies are commonly used for anonymous browsing and...
Navigation Tab Menu Generator CSS - Tabs Generator →
Do you need fast and cool tabs?
Here we are!
Enjoy using tabs generator!
Tweak size, colors, corners and more, generate your design, then download and use in your css style sheet!
No more neverending PS sessions, trying to match your idea!
htmlawed - Project Hosting on Google Code →
htmLawed is a single-file, 45 kb PHP script that makes input text more secure, HTML standards-compliant, and suitable in general from the viewpoint of a web-page administrator, for use in the body of HTML, XHTML or XML documents. A simple HTMLTidy alternative, the htmLawed filter, processor, purifier, sanitizer, beautifier, etc., is highly customizable.
It ensures that HTML tags are balanced...
xmoovStream →
The xmoovStream Server (formerly known as xmoov-php) is a centralized http streaming server written in PHP. It sits between your files and the world giving you control over many aspects of how your content is accessed. You can manage different kinds of content from different urls under a single installation.
The xmoovStream Server is loaded with lots of improvements and new features. It supports...
Shell Editor | jsFiddle | to test your JavaScript... →
MooShell is an official MooTools project. It is open source software. Code is hosted on GitHub.
Created and maintained by Piotr Interface design by Oskar Tested by #mootools community
PHP StackOverflow Clone | anant garg →
Qwench is a PHP/mySQL based StackOverflow clone.
Features 1. Allow users to post questions and answers 2. Points system similar to StackOverflow 3. Ability to post an article as a knowledge-base (for corporates) 4. Ability to lock site to registered users only 5. Clean CSS layout 6. Works in all major browsers
terrastore - Project Hosting on Google Code →
Terrastore is a modern document store which provides advanced scalability and elasticity features without sacrificing consistency.
Based on Terracotta
Terrastore is based on Terracotta, so it relies on an industry-proven, fast (and cool) clustering technology.
Ubiquitous
Terrastore is accessed through the universally supported HTTP protocol.
Distributed
Terrastore is a distributed document...
Open Source Cross-Browser WYSIWYG Editor →
Finally, a free cross-browser WYSIWYG editor that’s packed with every rich-text editing feature you need to make your content management system that much better.
Setting up openWYSIWYG is so easy, you can quickly turn any <textarea> into a powerful WYSIWYG editor with just a few simple lines of code.
Packed with every rich text editing feature you need, openWYSIWYG gives you...
Symphony. →
XSLT-powered open source content management system
Moousture →
What?
A mouse gesture library written soley in javascript with power and flexiblity to mould itself for you. Implemented on Mootools following the Object Oriented standards. Library is aimed to set out a future framework for mouse guesters for any browser including modern mobile devices.
How?
Its based on simplicity. Three major concepts.
A probe, which probes the pointing device. Currently...
JSON Formatter (& Validator!) →
The JSON Formatter was created to help with debugging. As data expressed as JSON is often written without line breaks to save space, it became extremely difficult to actually read it. This tool hopes to solve the problem by formatting the JSON into data that is easily readable by human beings.
Crystal Project - minimalistic PHP Database... →
Simple
Crystal was developed with one general idea in mind - “Human readable SQL code”
Lightweight
Crystal is extremely efficient - it loads only what you really need, nothing more.
Easy to learn
Crystal has clear, thorough documentation.
PylonsHQ - Home →
Pylons combines the very best ideas from the worlds of Ruby, Python and Perl, providing a structured but extremely flexible Python web framework. It’s also one of the first projects to leverage the emerging WSGI standard, which allows extensive re-use and flexibility — but only if you need it. Out of the box, Pylons aims to make web development fast,...