January 21, 2008
hudson: an extensible continuous integration engine
This looks worth investigating — Continuous integration server that can also monitor other jobs (eg. cron jobs or backups), then serves the results at RSS, email or IM alerts.
September 21, 2007
Jumble
JUnit test tester. Works by changing your code and making sure your unit tests break! Wonder if there’s a Python version…
June 25, 2007
John Lam on Software: Steve Yegge ported Rails to JavaScript
Rails ported to JavaScript running on top of a JVM. My head asplode!
June 19, 2007
Opera Watch - Opera Mini 4 beta released; includes desktop-like browsing capabilities
New free cellphone version of Opera allows you to zoom out and view the whole webpage. Kind of like that cellphone that’s getting launched next week — I forget its name.
June 1, 2007
May 18, 2007
JPC - Computer Virtualization in Java
Java applet that emulates an x86 PC. Kind of interesting, but what’s really cool? They’re demoing it with lots of classic PC games — Prince of Persia, Commander Keen, Lemmings… If they had “Jones in the Fast Lane”, it’d be perfect!
February 7, 2007
xmldap.org - cardspace/infocard resources
Open-source cross-platform CardSpace extension for Firefox, as well as a Java library to act as a “relying party” (a site that uses CardSpace for authentication)
December 28, 2006
Napkin Look & Feel
Java GUI look & feel which resembles a UI sketched out on the back of a napkin. Intended for use when demoing prototypes to customers.
November 2, 2006
Google Mobile - GMail
Java applet for cellphones which, on my Nokia 6682 at least, provides a better email experience than the built-in mailreader.
June 3, 2006
Omniscient Debugging
Very cool Java debugging tool, which records your application’s entire state over runtime, and allows you to replay and debug it at a later date.
May 26, 2006
Websites as graphs - an HTML DOM Visualizer Applet
Whizzy Java applet which creates a pretty map of a web page’s structure.