Curiosity about the Reliance social networking site BigAdda led me to PHPizabi.
It seems that BigAdda is completely done with  PHPizabi an open source social networking platform.
Way to go PHP.

This release is code named Karibu which is Swahili for nearby, close,  close by,  at hand… all terms that we feel reflect the nature of this release.
Karibu marks an important milestone in 1.5’s development, as barring any major issues we believe it will be the last release candidate, with the next release being the big [...]

InfraRecorder is a free CD/DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows. It offers a wide range of powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration.
InfraRecorder is released under GPL version 2.
Features

Create custom data, audio and mixed-mode projects and record them to physical discs as well as disc images.
Supports recording [...]

Can JavaScript performance become a big selling point for browser acceptance? That’s what Jeff Atwood is speculating as he put several browsers through the WebKit SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark. The tests evaluate the performance of a browser’s implementation of JS language only and claims to be a real world, balanced and statistically sound testing suite.
Jeff put [...]

When the news broke that DWR had joined the Dojo Foundation, it left a lot of questions regarding the future of the DWR framework. Joe Walker aims to address the future of DWR in his recent post, DWR: State of the Union.
So DWR is now part of the Dojo Foundation. I thought it would [...]

With all of the press surrounding Adobe AIR, I’m sure many of you have been chomping at the bit to give it a go. Jonathan Snook shows you how in his tutorial, Christmas Is In The AIR. AIR is Adobe’s answer to leveraging existing web technologies for building desktop applications and it’s a cool bit [...]

Reposted from my personal blog entry on ChartMaker.
I had an 11 hour flight from London to SFO. What was I going to do? I had a couple of books with me. The in-flight movies were average, and even in business class they didn’t have the on-demand system, so if you missed the start you had [...]

We blogged about the Gmail helper API in November, and the good folks at Remember The Milk have used the API to add tasks to the Gmail interface in a nice mashup:

Yup, that’s RTM in there! Remember The Milk for Gmail is a Firefox extension that lets you do all kinds of crazy cool things [...]

Christian Effenberger has doubled up to release Mapper.js 1.0, a library that allows you to add automatic area highlighting to image maps
on webpages. It uses unobtrusive javascript to keep the code clean.
It works in all the major browsers - Mozilla Firefox 1.5+, Opera 9+,
Safari and IE6+. On older browsers, it can use “jsgraphics” from
Walter Zorn [...]

Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager of the IE team, has posted that IE 8 now renders the Acid 2 face:

I’m delighted to tell you that on Wednesday, December 12, Internet Explorer correctly rendered the Acid2 page in IE8 standards mode. While supporting the features tested in Acid2 is important for many reasons, it is just one [...]