"Evil is a tool for very easily putting together sites that take advantage of data from around the web. Grab your blog entries from an ATOM or RSS feed, your recent links from Delicious, your projects from Github or whatever. If it’s got an API you can use pull it in to Evil and twist it together with other data and make a site. Evil does all the frustrating stuff like caching template processing and handling HTTP requests to APIs."
- Tim Lossen
"My name is Christian and I am developing NextGen MMO Architecture which is a platform for building massive online games. The architecture is developed in Erlang, making it easier to scale and distribute. The architecture makes as few assumptions on the game logic as possible, allowing any kind of game online game to be developed, for example: online poker, RPG/FPS/RTS or just a simple chat server."
- Tim Lossen
"This is a filesystem client based on the SSH File Transfer Protocol. Since most SSH servers already support this protocol it is very easy to set up: i.e. on the server side there's nothing to do. On the client side mounting the filesystem is as easy as logging into the server with ssh."
- Tim Lossen
"Because dammit - you're a designer, not a mathematician. -- Susy is a grid system for web designers. Built on the techniques of Natalie Downe, the Compass authoring framework, and the Sass meta-language for CSS, Susy brings together the unique semantic control of hand-written code with the speed of a framework and the strength needed for a bullet-proof design. With Susy you can build quick, custom grids that respond to the needs of the user without giving up design integrity. It's elastic, it's fluid, it's Susy."
- Tim Lossen
"So, the fundamental challenge facing all software architects, though only good architects realize this, is how to solve complexity. We solve any given technical issues simply by applying effort, money, resources. But we see even the most well-funded projects collapse under their own weight if badly designed. People confuse complexity for value, simplicity for naivety, when the truth is opposite. It is hard to build simple systems, easy to make complex ones."
- Tim Lossen
"The Royal College of Art's graduate show has opened, and this year, the show-stopper was a plug. Min-Kyu Choi impressed every passer by with his neat, apparently market-ready plug that folds down to the width of an Apple MacBook Air."
- Tim Lossen
"Reconnoiter's goal is to better the world of monitoring by marrying fault detection and trending together. Through ease of configuration and ongoing maintenance, Reconnoiter encourages monitoring important technical metrics along side critical business metrics to improve awareness and ultimately accountability."
- Tim Lossen
"What does technology want? That’s the question Kevin Kelly explores his new talk at TEDxAmsterdam. Kelly presented a new definition of technology: ‘anything useful invented by a mind’ – whether it be a hammer or the rule of law. So technology is more than gadgets; it’s part of a great story that started long ago, an extension of life and it is moving through us."
- Tim Lossen
"syslog-ng (ng: New Generation) is an alternative for syslogd - the default system logger component of Unix systems - and has solved the problems of tens of thousands of organizations, ranging from industrial companies to governmental institutes. syslog-ng has been the most widespread alternative system logging application of the Unix/Linux world for the last ten years."
- Tim Lossen
"Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built- in JavaScript objects. It's the tie to go along with jQuery's tux."
- Tim Lossen
"ImageOptim optimizes images — so they take up less disk space and load faster — by finding best compression parameters and by removing unnecessary comments and color profiles. It handles PNG, JPEG and GIF animations."
- Tim Lossen
"Ideal for personal homepages, lifestreaming, splash and microsites, celebrity fan pages, commercial promotion, brand marketing – and everything in between."
- Tim Lossen
"This is a book about programming macros in lisp. Unlike most programming books that only give them a cursory overview, this book is a series of tutorials and examples designed to get you programming sophisticated macros as efficiently and quickly as possible. Mastering macros is the final step to graduating from an intermediate lisp programmer to a lisp professional."
- Tim Lossen
"The choice to design an architecture with commodity hardware in mind comes with some enticing benefits. First, instead of one expensive widget, I can afford a bunch of cheaper widgets and spread out my work load among them, which also helps isolate failures and improves the overall continuity of service to my customers. Second, it allows me to scale my solution as the demands of the business grow. Third, money saved by avoiding pricey hardware is freed to be spent in other areas."
- Tim Lossen
"The content on Denna’s site is delivered exclusively by Web services. We take advantage of the ability to share and manipulate data that those services provide to Denna, then let her choose what to publish on her site, and in what context. This is how: ...."
- Tim Lossen
"This site is an experiment in personal publishing. All of the content is managed by Denna herself without a local content management system. She controls everything from her existing accounts on sites like Flickr, Tumblr, Ma.gnolia, Twitter and Upcoming."
- Tim Lossen