Perl on Rails
Friday, December 7th, 2007BBC developers has announced its own Perl MVC framework - Perl on Rails. As you can understand from its name the new framework is similar to Ruby on Rails. The BBC Programmes was developed using the Perl on Rails.
Actually, there is a few Perl MVC frameworks like Catalyst, Ganty, Maypole or Jifty. If Perl [...]
Google Presentation is released
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007As many of you may know Google offers on-line versions of Word and Excel as Google Docs package. Recently new application was added there - Presentation. Now you can forget about MS Office completely. It’s so easy to create, modify or just view any well-known documents including presentations. The next step I guess will be [...]
MOSH Beta by Nokia
Monday, August 27th, 2007Nokia lunched MOSH Beta - a content sharing site where community members upload, distribute and manage content to be viewed and enjoyed on mobile devices. The new service is oriented on Nokia mobile devices users only (to use it you have to install a special application on the your device). So, if you’re not Nokia [...]
Building Web Applications with Gantry and Bigtop
Monday, May 7th, 2007Here is a new book - Building Web Applications with Gantry and Bigtop, which describes all aspects to develop Perl powered web applications using modern Perl framework Gantry and its part - a web application data language processor Bigtop:
Gantry and Bigtop make starting a Perl powered web application almost painless. After initial start up, they [...]
Scribd - “YouTube for Documents”
Thursday, March 8th, 2007Scribd, a site for sharing documents, is coming out of private beta this week:
Scribd is most easily described as a text version of YouTube. It is a social network that lets you tag, share, and comment on uploaded documents (.doc, .pdf, .txt, .ppt, .xls, .ps, .lit).
Documents can be displayed and embedded as HTML or [...]
Eyejot: web based video email: web based video email
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007Here is a new player in the web services battle - Eyejot. Eyejot is a web based email client which allows to create, send and receive video emails. It’s very easy to create the video email using your webcam.
Other features include: private delivery, permission-based address book, integrates with mobile devices, integrates with iTunes/RSS, connects [...]
Gizmo Call brings VoIP to the browser
Thursday, February 1st, 2007The builders of Gizmo Project have just unveiled Gizmo Call, which allows you to make phone calls from your browser, using a Flash-based mini-app. You get five minutes a day of free calls to any phone line, along with unlimited free calls to users of Google Talk, Windows Live, Gizmo Project and any other SIP [...]
Use right icons
Friday, September 22nd, 2006IconBuffet is a place where you can find proffetional icons for your web application:
IconBuffet is the icing that should ALWAYS go on your application cake. There are so many great applications that are perceived of as bad because they look like something that crawled out of a unix core dump. Now there is really no [...]