There were days when UML tools were expensive and only few commercial ones were available. But, now the market is flooded with several commercial and opensource uml tools. While choice is good, but too much choice is also bad. It has become difficult to evaluate and select the best one. In this article I present my handpicked collection of best open source UML tools.

If you are a Chrome user than you can add many exiting and useful features to your browser with extensions. These extensions will make you browse faster, safer and smoother. Here are some of the best Google Chrome extensions which you can download and install in your Chrome browser.

Yesterday, there was a post in my favorite forum, asking for a very simple cms that needed no database to operate and to be able to run on a very old server that supports an old PHP version. Personally, I don’t use flat file CMSs but maybe some people be in need for one. So, i compiled this list in order to help anyone searching for database-less content management systems.

It can be frustrating to write complex JavaScript programs when they don't work the same way on different browsers. Google, who makes extensive use of JavaScript in programs like Gmail and Google Docs, understands the difficulties in writing, debugging, and optimizing sizable JavaScript apps. To make JavaScript programming easier, Google has released its set of Closure Tools for JavaScript.

There are many awesome CMS out there that might be the right tool for you and your next website. One of them is SilverStripe. SilverStripe is a great Open Source CMS that is mainly focused on people who already have used a content management system but are not satisfied with it.

When you have a website or a network, it’s helpful to be aware of any issues as soon as they occur. There are open source and freeware server/network monitoring tools that will supervise your infrastructure for any issues that may arise. These tools are meant to aid you in avoiding being taken offline and evaluating if your resource needs has outgrown your infrastructure.

With Maven 3.x we have made our best attempt to listen users, find out what they need and want, and make reasonable preparations and plans to fix the problems, implement useful features, and create the integration points for working properly with third party systems like Nexus and Hudson. While there have been many new feature requests — and we have many new features done or in the works — the number one concern is backward compatibility. Maven 3.x makes an ardent attempt to be 100% backward compatible with Maven 2.x. All your Maven 2.x builds should work out of the box using 3.x without change to your projects. We simply can’t cause pain to the existing user base. We are very cognizant that even small changes can have a huge impact and so we have tried achieve complete Maven 2.x fidelity with Maven 3.x.

Today Google released their new Closure Compiler, you can use it to optimize and minify your javascripts. Now i show you how to use the new Google Closure Compiler over the RESTful API with PHP5.

The Health Center provides live information and recommendations about classes being loaded, the virtual machine environment, garbage collection, locking, and profiling. This article introduces you to the Health Center and shows an example of how it can be used to check the impact of a source code change in a Web application.

A new set of Javascript tools from Google. Links in the article.

.Net 4 is looking more and more attractive. I absolutely loved and at the same time was jealous of the LINQ feature in .Net. Now with PLINQ (Parallel LINQ) it just become so attractive that it's almost illegal. At least that's how I see it compared to the language features in Java, which hasn't changed since 1.5.