Highly customizable Twitter trackbacks widget to integrate tweets that mention your post into your blog. Each tweet comes with reply & retweet links to get more readers engaged in your story conversation. After Topsy has released a Wordpress plugin to turn your post tweets into comments. I wanted to use their awesome API to create this Javascript widget that can be used for any blog especially for non-Wordpress ones.

In this post, you’ll find 24 free, professional looking, premium-like, functional themes for Wordpress photography blogs. Simply click the thumbnail, and you’ll be taken to the download page for that theme, and you’ll be up and running in a flash.

The Open Web SSO project (OpenSSO) provides core identity services to simplify the implementation of transparent single sign-on (SSO) as a security component in a network infrastructure. OpenSSO provides the foundation for integrating diverse web applications that might typically operate against a disparate set of identity repositories and are hosted on a variety of platforms such as web and application servers. This project is based on the code base of Sun Java System Access Manager, a core identity infrastructure product offered by Sun Microsystems.

In November 2009, 5 jQuery plugins were born and most of people believed that they are useful for web designers. Enjoy the 5 fresh jQuery plugins!

db4o Deep Prefetching for C/S mode is examined via runtime statistics (a facility that allow you to track db4o behavior). (Even if you don't use db4o in C/S mode, it may still be worthwhile to keep on reading, since some of the observations made apply to db4o configuration optimization in general - or actually even more, to performance tweaking in general)

As a developer I have made an habit of using the keyboard for the majority of tasks. Vim for example is my favorite text editor, which does not require point-and-click. This is a productivity requirement: the less my fingers move between the keyboard and the mouse, the faster I am in consulting documentation and other developers' blogs; vim even goes further and lets you scan a document without leaving the home row.

Our initial release has provided a great deal of feedback. We recieved a good bit of feedback on what our customers want. Our team took this feedback and did their best to implement it.

Much abuzz on the Web, the first betas of Google’s Chrome OS are out. What does this operating system give you at this point? IT pro Rick Vanover walks through a Chrome OS beta.

Hearing the news of Google’s Chrome OS at the end of last week left me with an uneasy feeling about the future of operating systems and computer use. The general idea behind Chrome OS is that the operating system as you see it will be nothing more than a web browser with a few things plugged into it

Google’s two operating systems, mobile Android and desktop Chrome OS, will likely converge as a single OS in the future, said Google co-founder Sergey Brin. “Android and Chrome will likely converge over time,” Brin said in an informal discussion with reporters after the company’s Chrome OS presentation last Thursday.

Creating a menu for a flash website is no longer a prerogative of flash experts. Learn how to make a flash menu with these details steps.

Various cloud infrastructures lack a cross-cloud application platform. Cloud providers have invested heavily in cloud infrastructure but some have left the application layer unattended. Vendors like VMWare and Gizmox are among the few that target the application layer. DZone conducted an exclusive interview with Gizmox marketing manager Roy Goffer about his company's Visual WebGui (VWG) web and cloud platform. Goffer says that VWG has an architecture that is optimized for the cloud. Gizmox recently announced support for running the VWG platform on the Windows Azure cloud.

Its sometimes necessary as a developer to log and track data as it is processed either to debug or to keep a simple record of maybe who’s logged in or out of your site. You could easily do this by accessing a MySQL database and adding a row, but you then have to create and maintain that database. So today I’m going to run through the steps to writing and reading a .txt log file.

I've just released version v1.2-20091123 of SQL Server Compressed Backup which is an open source project for backing up SQL Server databases using either gzip, zip or bzip2 compression. Read more for the list of changes and links to the project.

Telerik, the leading vendor of development tools and user interface components for .NET, today announced the release of its JustCode add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and 2008. A fast, agile, multi-language solution, JustCode is designed to increase developer productivity through real-time code analysis, unobtrusive code navigation, and smart refactoring.

Recently Billy McCafferty wrote a post on Horn, a package manager that Paul Cowan and Dave the Ninja have developed, similar to the idea of Ruby’s Gem. Although it’s a step in the right direction, it does have issues. To be able to use it, you need to download Horn and build it. But not only that, you also need to install Subversion, Git, Powershell, Rake, PSake, Cake, Fake…and a whole slew of SCM’s and build tools. Why? Because Horn builds from source. As such, it needs to access the SCM a specific project uses, download the files locally and run the build script. Since OSS projects are free to choose what build script they use, that also adds to the complexity. Some are happy with MSBuild, which isn’t normally an issue since it’s part of every .NET install. However, others use Rake, which in turn requires Ruby. You get the picture…

Last week at PDC, Telerik launched a new product named JustCode. It was a stunning success since we had a lot of people show up for the launch and we gave away 1,000 free licenses at the event. Back in March at a planning meeting at Telerik HQ, we decided that we would embark on an Apple style “secret” strategy and go for the most buzz at launch.

Google continues to expand its third version of the maps API to include features already in the second version. Most recently, they’ve added driving directions, which gives programmatic access to the routing data between two points. As with the rest of Maps V3, which was released in May, the team took a fresh approach, so some interfaces have changed.

"There’s not really enough space on a business card to explain yourself in any detail so I thought I’d extend it using augmented reality."

If you’ve been working with Visual Studio 2008, Expression Blend 3 and Silverlight (or WPF) development, you’ve likely used the Open in Expression Blend feature in Visual Studio. This occurs when you right-click on a XAML file in your project/solution and you’ll see that option as long as you have Expression Blend 3 installed.

I was just read blog entry which complained about having to have administrative access to execute PowerShell commands against a remote server. This is not the case.

Recently I wanted to add a very simple sanity check to our sites’ build. Typically the Integration/Selenium RC tests would handle this sort of thing, but I wanted something light enough to go in continuous integration build so we would be protected from simple dll version mishaps, configuration errors, container issues, whatever. There’s probably plenty of ways to do this, and if any of you know of a better way, please let me know.

Last week, the Silverlight 4 beta release included the Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010. This single installer would perform the following (assuming you had either Visual Studio 2010 or Visual Web Developer Express 2010 already installed

Following Kevin Pang’s request on my last post regarding my problems getting NHibernate, NH Spatial and SQL Server Fulltext queries to work, I am finally getting around to giving some tips and pointers, and the code that Steve Strong of iMeta knocked up for me.

The common technique many developers use to debug Silverlight Out of Browser applications is to attach the debugger to the SLLauncher.exe process. However, there is a another way to debug installed OoB apps. Attaching to the process does not allow you to catch and debug any startup code however this technique below does allow you to do so.