Sms2do is a free environment to design and evaluate SMS text messaging applications. It can be used to add MO (Mobile Originated) services to any application (and demonstrate them to user) in minutes before actually deploying and trying them on a mobile phone. An high level DSL (based on Javascript) allows writing business logic in a few lines. All Java runtime and libraries are also available.

The development team at CohesiveFT has kickstarted a free Django community portal for developers who want to include the 1.0 version of the framework in their apps, test and deploy production-reader servers to the cloud in real-time. Check it out.

The Naga API is now compatible with 2.x releases (Poblano, Alegrias and Habanero) - just drop in a Naga jar into an app compiled against 2.x, and update to the more "current" APIs at your leisure. There are benchmarks comparing 3.0.0.BETA1 against 2.2.0.GA (released just last weekend), 2.1.1.GA, and against the latest EHCache release as well. The public API is stable and all major features are in.

" No, you’re not hallucinating, it’s really here. Around three years ago, Adrian, Simon, Wilson and I released some code to the world. Our plan was to hack quietly on it for a bit, release a solid 1.0 release, and then really get the ball rolling. Well[...]"

Three developers get together and collaborate across 15,000 miles to test-drive the development of a simple stack implementation, using UNA, a real-time shared development environment.

Adobe Flex and the technologies surrounding it are becoming mainstream in the RIA space. Even though the Flex community is still much smaller than those of Java or Microsoft platform, it's growing steadily with significant contributions from dedicated Flex RIA developers. This has resulted in the creation of a number of open source developer frameworks....

Google is releasing an early version of their open-source browser, Chrome, tomorrow.

Jazz is a framework for developing cross-platform desktop applications in Java. Jazz is build on top of Swing and provides an infrastructure and many features for writing large-scale applications. Is easy to learn and enforces clean separation of presentation and business logic. Jazz is a powerful alternative to plain Java/Swing.

Google announced today they will release a new browser tomorrow, but has anyone asked why? It's all about learning about your behaviors and target ads.

The author is the founder of Netbeans. He has dozens of great examples of good and bad API design from his experience. He describes where their API got out of control and how they dealt with it, methods for monitoring your API as a community or team with an API review, and how to avoid API mishaps. Jaroslav is so intimate with the evolution of the JDK that he is able to site specific examples in the JDK where changes to the API broke software around the world. Jaroslav is very knowledgeable on the topic and his writing shows it.

The PHPClasses site is launching an editor that allows designs to propose new site design themes. This is the initial beta version of the site design editor, but it already allows any designer to try different presentation designs.

I have started a new blog about a start-up I am working on, and I intend to follow it through from the inception of the idea (today) to starting to make money (I hope), So here is one of my first posts about deciding whether the idea is a good one or not?

We're happy — no, ecstatic — to announce that GWT 1.5 is now officially released and available for download.

JBoss Cache 2.2.0 is the recommended release for all 2.x users, as it contains a number of internal enhancements and performance improvements (particularly in replication). It also contains a number of important bug fixes, and a few new features including an Amazon S3 cache loader implementation contributed by Elias Ross.

During the past weeks we have been working on preparing the source code for the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 release and we are happy to announce that we just released the following components to the Reference Source Code Center (RSCC) servers

Keeping on with the 6 weeks release plan, the ASP.NET MVC team quietly release P5 of ASP.NET MVC on Codeplex. Some changes happened...

Free tool to make your web pages compatible with IE8 by automating the introduction of the compatibility flag.

JRuby 1.1.4 released, fixes compatibility issues, enhances performance, and moves toward compatibility with Ruby 1.9.

Jt2.7 has been released. Jt is a pattern oriented framework for the rapid implementation of Java applications. Jt has been utilized in several large mission critical systems. Jt implements many well-known patterns including Data Access Objects (DAO), GoF design patterns and J2EE patterns.

The .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) delivers more controls, a streamlined setup, improved start-up performance, and powerful new graphics features for client development and rich data scaffolding, improved AJAX support, and other improvements for Web development.

DivX is joining the high-definition era: Following its first H.264 decoder, the company today announced the alpha version of its first H.264 encoder. The software is part of what eventually will become Divx 7 and beta testers are invited to try out what the company has come up with so far.

Apache Axis2 team has announced the 1.4.1 release of the project. Looking at the download statistics usage of Apache Axis2 it is clear that it is becoming the de-factor Java open source web service framework.

This release provides WebSphere developers with advanced Ajax tooling, enhanced reporting technologies and Eclipse 3.4 support, among other enhancements.

We are pleased to announce a new JIDE Icon Set for Mac OSX. At the same time, JIDE 2.3.0 release is out. In this release, we introduced a new package com.jidesoft.filter which contains a lot of pre-built filters for String, Date, Calendar and Numbers. In addition, we refactored FilterableTableModel and SortableTableModel to allow a totally different implementation to do the sorting and filtering.

Nice gallery of free / open source php web apps. Includes community features like social bookmarking, ratings, and comments.