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These charts display real-time health status and the last twenty four hours of health history for key Amazon Web Services.

With the AJAX Language API, you can translate and detect the language of blocks of text within a webpage using only Javascript.

Halcyon is a JSON Web App Server Framework built on Rack for speed and light weight.

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.

Ext is a client-side, JavaScript framework for building web applications.

The Google Chart API lets you dynamically generate charts.

SWFUpload is a small JavaScript/Flash library to get the best of both worlds. It features the great upload capabilities of Flash and the accessibility and ease of HTML/CSS.

Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing time-based events. It is like Google Maps for time-based information.

Timeplot is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for plotting time series and overlay time-based events over them (with the same data formats that Timeline supports).

An open protocol to allow secure API authentication in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications.

This paper introduces the concept of a "Rich Web Application Backplane" -- a set of common building blocks for web applications. We argue that submission, data models, model-view binding and behavior, and web components can provide a common infrastructure for multiple markup formats.

The SIOC (Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities) Core Ontology provides the main concepts and properties required to describe information from online communities (e.g., message boards, wikis, weblogs, etc.) on the Semantic Web. This document contains a detailed description of the SIOC Core Ontology.

Introduction to the Annotated XML Specification

Amazon Web Services provides developers with direct access to Amazon's robust technology platform.

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) offers a reliable, highly scalable hosted queue for storing messages as they travel between computers. By using Amazon SQS, developers can simply move data between distributed application components performing different tasks, without losing messages or requiring each component to be always available.

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.

Use tamperdata to view and modify HTTP/HTTPS headers and post parameters.

Draws A Color-Coded Chart of a Web Page's Source Code

Dia is a GTK+ based diagram creation program for Linux, Unix and Windows released under the GPL license.

NetBeans IDE is much more than a Java IDE: We designed NetBeans IDE as a modular developer tool for a wide range of development tasks. The base IDE includes an advanced language-aware editor, file versioning control, and unique developer collaboration features.

Aptana Studio is a robust, JavaScript-focused environment for building dynamic web applications. Available as a free community or a professional version.

In this interview with Werner Vogels, the CTO of Amazon, he outlines how Amazon's developers stay in touch with their users

a fast, lightweight Source Control Management system designed for efficient handling of very large distributed projects.

Git is a popular version control system designed to handle very large projects with speed and efficiency; it is used mainly for various open source projects, most notably the Linux kernel.

Mantis is a free popular web-based bugtracking system (feature list).

This is the online home of Version Control with Subversion, a free book about Subversion, a new version control system designed to supplant CVS.

Bazaar is a distributed version control system that Just Works and adapts to the workflows you want to use.

A three-hour tutorial from the Open Source Developers' Conference in Brisbane, November 2007

Top 5 developer benefits of agile development

Randy Shoup covers the architectural principles eBay has used to grow and evolve its infrastructure to massive scale.

Amazon Web Services provides developers with direct access to Amazon's robust technology platform. Build on Amazon's suite of web services to enable and enhance your applications.

S3tools project offers several Open source tools for accessing Amazon S3 - Simple Storage Service.

SysCP, the System Control Panel is a server administration tool which enables an internet service provider to give their customers a web-based application to administrate their email addresses, their subdomains etc.

The Linux HTTP Benchmarking HOWTO

 Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm