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Free Facebook app hosting from Joyent
Joyent is partnering with Facebook to offer free Facebook app hosting for a year with their Facebook Developer Accelerator offering. The service normally starts at $45/month, and the free service provides the equivalent of their $75/month offering. You get root access on a virtual machine that’s set up for Rails, PHP and Python. [...]
svn-time-lapse-view
Jon has written an awesome tool in Java for doing time lapse views of a single file in a subversion repository. Super handy!
Links for Thursday May 11 2006
A PHP 4 compatible class for working with Amazon’s S3 web service. Amazon includes some sample ruby and python bindings, and both Matt Croydon and Adrian Holovaty detail their own python-based implementations.
How C.R.A.P is your site design? Mike Rundle walks through the 4 golden rules of site design.
An example of using the canvas tag [...]
Zoomin
At last, a decent mapping application for Australia with street level granularity and a beautiful interface: Zoomin.
It’s nice to see the emergence of an app by antipodean developers who are obviously clueful about the modern web. I say this because the options until now for utilizing map data in Australia have been both clunky [...]
Google’s ExplorerCanvas
I’ve been playing with the canvas tag a bit lately. Now that ajax is becoming relatively commonplace, I can imagine canvas becoming one of the pillars of a new generation of web apps. The only thing holding it back has been the lack of support for the tag in Internet Explorer, but Google [...]
PandoraFM
At the end of last year I was lamenting not being able to pipe my music stats from Pandora to Last.fm. I found out via techcrunch recently that there’s a service that does this now, called PandoraFM. This is great to see; some time after my post, I’d layed out a convoluted plan [...]
Pragmatic Ajax
My copy of Pragmatic Ajax arrived today. In spite of having the worst cover design in the history of tech books, I have faith that it’s a quality title. At first glance, it seems to be structured a lot like the Agile Web Development with Rails book, and has sections on Dojo [...]
Ning’s Atom API
I spent a bit of time last week playing with Ning’s new Atom API. Call me biased, but I think it’s sensational. It’s available for every app on Ning, and it allows you to browse content and tags, pull information about applications and users, and lets you explore the genealogy of apps within [...]