Raindrop, an exploration in messaging innovation being led by the team responsible for Thunderbird, to explore new ways to use Open Web technologies to create useful, compelling messaging experiences.
Look at Mozilla Labs.
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Raindrop
Oct 23
Hi there! Ryan Stewart posted about some changes to the sound APIs in Flash Player 10 that let you generate sounds.
Look at Sonoflash – it is a provider of AS3 based Audio Flash Components. All sounds available on this site use our unique AS3 algorithm, no mp3’s or wav’s are used anywhere on this site.
YUI PHP Loader Beta Release
Sep 15
The YUI PHP Loader is a server-side utility for loading YUI JavaScript and CSS; version 1.0.0 beta 1 is available for download from YUILibrary.com today.
PHP Loader, originally written by longtime YUI engineer Adam Moore and now developed and maintained by fellow Yahoo Chad Auld, has several key features that make it easier to use YUI in PHP-based applications:
- Reliable, sorted loading of dependencies: You specify the version of YUI that you’re using, the modules you want to use, and PHP Loader outputs the requisite
scriptandcsstags for your implementation. Even if YUI’s dependency tree changes in a future version, your code won’t have to. - Support for performance best-practices: PHP Loader has three strategies to help you reduce HTTP requests — support for the Yahoo! CDN and its combo-handler (which aggregates YUI files into single HTTP requests on the fly), support for YUI’s rollup files, and (in the event you don’t want to serve YUI from Yahoo!’s servers) a lightweight combo-handler of its own. Server-side performance is fast as well, leveraging PHP’s APC cache.
- Extensible metadata format: YUI PHP Loader ships with YUI library metadata (for both YUI 2 and YUI 3); however, the application is generic and can be extended to support your own custom JavaScript and CSS modules — whether or not they use YUI at all.
Story – it is a collaborative script development tool designed for creative professionals, producers, and writers working on or with scripts and screenplays. This preview version will let you try out a few of the scriptwriting tools that will be part of the overall features in the final version of Story.
You can download it for free.
PDoc
Sep 10
PDoc is an inline comment parser and JavaScript documentation generator written in Ruby. It is designed for documenting Prototype and Prototype-based libraries.
PDoc uses Treetop, a Ruby-based DSL for text parsing and interpretation, and its own ActionView-inspired, ERB-based templating system for HTML generation. Other documentation generators (e.g., DocBook XML) are planned.
Unlike other inline-doc parsers, PDoc does not rely on the JavaScript source code at all; it only parses the comments. This approach, though slightly more verbose, is much better at generating consistent, reliable documentation, and avoids the headaches encountered when documenting highly dynamic languages.
Found an interesting tool to download albums from Flickr and Facebook – with Fotobounce!
Fotobounce is an app for Windows that lets you quickly do just that, and organize your downloaded photos, too. It also has built-in face recognition, to make tagging those photos a lot easier.
It is a free.
Fotobounce allows you to share in a couple of different ways: a) you can upload your photos to Facebook with all of your tagging information, b) you can upload your photos to Flickr, and c) you can view your photos remotely via Fotomobile from a PDA such as the Blackberry, iPhone or iPod Touch.