Category: Awareness

Draco is clean and simple, with its aesthetics geared towards focusing the users attention on what matters – the product/application your are showcasing. Purples and blues are used to give a prestigious and luxurious feeling

An open protocol to allow API authentication in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications.

Fire eagle is a Yahoo! location sharing service that provides an API that allows external clients and services to update and query user location information. Besides the obvious interesting connection between a location sharing service and Android’s Location-Based-Services API, I became more interested in how fire eagle uses OAuth as it’s authorization scheme and how it can be used on a smart mobile device.

ClockingIT is a free hosted application,
keeping track of all your
tasks and the time you
spend on them.

ProjectPier is a Free, Open-Source, self-hosted PHP application for managing tasks, projects and teams through an intuitive web interface. ProjectPier will help your organization communicate, collaborate and get things done Its function is similar to commercial groupware/project management products, but allows the freedom and scalability of self-hosting. Even better, it will always be free.

OSCache is a caching solution that includes a JSP tag library and set of classes to perform fine grained dynamic caching of JSP content, servlet responses or arbitrary objects. It provides both in memory and persistent on disk caches, and can allow your site to have graceful error tolerance (eg if an error occurs like your db goes down, you can serve the cached content so people can still surf the site almost without knowing). Take a look at the great features of OSCache.

Whirlycache is a fast, configurable in-memory object cache for Java. It can be used, for example, to speed up a website or an application by caching objects that would otherwise have to be created by querying a database or by another expensive procedure. From the testing that we have done, it appears to be faster than any other Java cache that we have been able to inspect.

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SocialGO lets you easily create and run a feature-filled social networking website. You choose who can join, what they can do and how it looks and the best part is it's free to get going. Got 2 minutes to spare?

Android combines the ubiquity of cell phones, the excitement of open source software, and the corporate backing of Google and other Open Handset Alliance members. The result is a mobile platform you can’t afford not to learn. This book will get you started.