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Envato Birthday Bundle: Over $400 in Envato Files for $20!

If you like a good deal, then I have a doozie for you. The good people over at Envato are celebrating their 4th birthday, by offering an Envato Birthday Bundle of files from all of their stock websites. You get over $400 worth of files for only $20!. Now that is a pretty sweet deal. There’s only once catch, the offer is only good until Tuesday August 24th. Make sure you head over there now and download the bundle. Continue Reading »

10 Must Read Free eBooks

There’s a ton of great eBooks around the internet, and better yet a ton of them are free! Here’s my list of 10 must read, free eBooks. Continue Reading »

20 Most Useful Scripts From CodeCanyon.net

Have you heard of codecanyon.net? It’s another great stock website from the people at envato.com. Codecanyon.com is an awesome source for Javascript, PHP, .NET, and Plugin code, at super reasonable prices. Below is a list of the 20 must useful code snippets on the website.
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Open Source Bridge: Day 1

I arrived down in Portland last night for the Open Source Bridge conference. Check below for my summaries on some of the sessions I attended. Here’s a blurb on what Open Source Bridge is all about:

“Open Source Bridge is a new conference for developers working with open source technologies and for people interested in learning the open source way. It’s not a typical technical conference.

Here’s what makes it different: It’s entirely volunteer-run, by developers, for developers. This is the conference you’ve always wanted to attend. Session tracks are technology agnostic, based instead around shared community experiences and focused on similarities between projects, not differences. The geekery doesn’t end when the sessions do. There will also be a 24-hour hacker lounge for code sprints, bug bashes, session deep dives, bouncing ideas, starting new projects or just mingling and taking in the vibe.”

Microblogging with Laconica

Laconica is an open source microblogging platform. Founder, Evan Prodromou, gave straight forward presentation on what Laconica is and some of the things you can do with it. I left the session feeling excited about this software, and I’m looking forward to downloading it and playing around with it on my server.

Laconica is written in PHP and relies on MySql for the database end of things. Jabber is supported for IM, OpenID for authentication, and twitter integration that allows you to pass information back and forth. Currently they’re working on integration with Facebook and a paid, hosted service for the near future. This is definitely a piece of software to keep your eyes on.

Getting started in free and open source

This was a good intro to open source presented by Cat Allman and Leslie Hawthorne from Google. They touched on joining your first project, discussion etiquette, and general info about open source for newbies like myself. I’m going to write a more detailed post on this session in the near future. For now, I’ll leave you with this link of interest. producingoss.com is a great resource for your first open source project – from concept to completion.

10 Most Sought After Skills In Web Development

There’s a great post over at nettuts.com titled 10 Most Sought After Skills in Web Development. This is a great resource for students or people that are just getting into web design and development.
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Taco Html – Html Editor for Mac OSX

A couple of years back I came across Taco Html. Besides from being the best icon in my doc, it is a great HTML text editor. Even better, it is a free download!
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