May 2008 Archives

12May

A Google Maps View for The iPhone

If you’ve been following the development of location based applications under
Android and the iPhone you must have seen a lot of comparison charts showing the
strengths and weaknesses of each SDK and mentioning the differences. Well, now
you can cross one difference off that list!

08May

OpenFire: a Java Jabber/XMPP server

OpenFire
is an open source project from igniterealtime.
It is an IM (Instant Messaging) server that can be installed on any corporate
private network to provide IM solutions to its community. It uses the popular Jabber/XMPP
protocol so you can communicate with it through almost any multi-protocol IM
client (Pidgin for example). It has a
counterpart IM client, Spark.

06May

Rendering Web Pages Inside Android Activities

While you create Android activities, you supply the activity view content
either through XML or dynamically through the code. But, sometimes the content
in the view, specifically the static content (content that does not change with
different runs) may be a web page; e.g. "Help" Activity or "Terms and
Conditions" Activity of your application.

04May

Open Source Web Analytics

Piwik is an open source web analytics
software that has been launched under a GPL license. Piwik
gives you detailed reports on your website pageviews, visitors, search engine
keywords, popular pages and more. Their goal is to be an open source web
analytics software that is a good alternative to Google Analytics.

02May

Redmine: A Software Project Management Solution

As a software and web developer, I am always interested in tools that help
developers and ease the overall project management process.

For long time, I have searched for the best application that I can trust and
use as my all-in-one solution for project management and issue tracking. I have
seen many applications that claimed to be the best, downloaded many free tools
and signed up for many trial accounts. Examples include EasyProjects.NET, Trac, XPlanner,
Bugzilla, Mingle, Basecamp, and Goplan.

02May

YouTube Platform

Unless you’ve been living on Mars for the last couple of years, you already
know about the Google’s video sharing
service, YouTube, that lets you upload,
search, play, comment and rate videos for free. YouTube also has released some
APIs that let you embed and play videos from your website.

02May

Find a Website Value with dnScoop

I came across dnScoop, an online tool
to determine the estimated value of a website depending on several factors.
Factors include Domain Age, Page Rank, Inbound Links, Traffic Rank and others.