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The Architecture of Open Source Applications

The Architecture of Open Source Applications

Framabook - Livres libres sur le logiciel libre - Framasoft 63 of the Best Free Online Tools for Designers and Developers Designers and developers need all the advantages they can get in today’s competitive market. Whether you’re working for a Fortune 500 company, a hot new startup, or just freelancing for yourself, odds are that you use and need a variety of software. Not everyone can afford to spend exorbitant amounts of money on a tool they might only need once, so luckily, there are tons of free tools on the internet. In this post, we’ve gone around and spent hours making the ultimate roundup, 63 of the best free online tools for designers and developers. Some more posts On free online tools that you might like :- 16 Powerful Image Optimization Tools to Enhance Website Performance Bespin is a Mozilla Labs experiment on how to build an extensible Web code editor using HTML 5 technology. Bland Text Generator – This handy tool helps you create dummy text for all your layout needs. BrowserLab – Preview and test your web pages on leading browsers and operating systems – on demand. Gazup!

Wikibooks How To Steal Like An Artist (And 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me) - Austin Kleon Wednesday, March 30th, 2011 Buy the book: Amazon | B&N | More… Here’s what a few folks have said about it: “Brilliant and real and true.” Read an excerpt below… Tags: steal like an artist Producing Open Source Software How New Community Tools Will Democratize Data Analytics for the Good of Society Andrew Turner is a neogeographer and the CTO of GeoIQ, which brings data and mapping solutions to the mass market through its location analysis software. You can follow him on Twitter or check out the company blog. We are surrounded by data. However, while we have access to all of this data, we are lacking in the mechanisms to use it effectively at scale. Data-Driven Decisions Analysis tools exist in many forms. So we're at an interesting crossroads. Making Analytics Accessible to Everyone Clay Shirky has talked about the cognitive surplus that has led to successful crowdsourced projects such as Wikipedia. What if we provided the same simple interfaces for accessing analysis tools? Community analytics allow everyone involved to contribute their understanding of the data to achieve better results. At the time, the collaboration was performed through a collection of wiki's, email forums, Skype chats, in-person CrisisCamps and assorted online visualization and analysis tools.

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