Roll your own tag clouds on Wordle

Here's a little something my daughter turned me onto from her blog. I guess most people would recognize a "tag cloud" if they saw one but they might not know it by name. There's a web site called Wordle that will let you easily create your own custom tag cloud directly using the text in the RSS feed from your web site. The result for this blog looks like so:

Links to miscellanious interesting stuff

This is a little cubby hole where I'll squirrel away links to things that look like they may be handier tomorrow than they are today.

stackoverflow

Stack Overflow is a collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers — regardless of platform or language.

Pencil

About all I can say is WOW! With the power of the underlying Mozilla Gecko engine, Pencil turns your excellent Firefox 3 browser into a sketching tool with just a 400-kilobyte installation package.

Jackcess

Jackcess is a pure Java library for reading from and writing to MS Access databases. It is part of the OpenHMS project from Health Market Science, Inc..

Processing.js

John Riesig has ported the Processing visualization language to JavaScript, using the Canvas element and the demos on his blog are quite remarkable.

JNode.free(your Mind)

Open source, free, Java-based operating system. I've wondered about the utility of such a thing in the past but I'm still not sure that, outside of use on smart phones, this is anything more than a chess-playing dog. The big problem with the concept is that regardless of the portability of the application layer you still have to have a native code kernel that locks you into a specific processor familiy -- in this case Intel. Sure you can move it around by porting the nano-kernel but that doesn't totally free up your choices if you want complete portability on a USB stick.

BeanKeeper

Yet another object persistence layer. This one claims to be extremely easy to use with only three classes to learn.

CorneliOS

CorneliOS is an easy-to-use and cross-browser "Web Desktop Environment", "Web Operating System" or "Web Office" and comes with a set of cool applications.

Apache Roller

A full featured blog done in Java

Vayala (Google Code)

Vayala is a multipurpose chat client for developers. It offers a platform and an easy to use Eclipse plugin. Based on multicast technology each client is automatically connected to one network of chat client without a central server or much configuration or installation effort. You add the Eclipse view and you are connected to your colleagues. In addition to basic chat functionality you can also exchange files, graphics and much more.

JSmooth - Java Executable Wrapper

JSmooth is a Java Executable Wrapper. It creates native Windows launchers (standard .exe) for your java applications. It makes java deployment much smoother and user-friendly, as it is able to find any installed Java VM by itself.

walterzorn.com

Some very nice looking Javascript libraries for drawing images and doing DHTML stuff

Smashing Magazine

A great gathering of web and graphics resources, converters, tutorials and stuff

Cheap Silk Screen Tutorial

Cool, cheap and easy to do.

Streamripper

Record streaming media off the Internet

Using PHP with Tomcat

Notepad++

One of my favorite editors is SciTE. This uses the same editing engine.

Geany

Another cool editor based on the Scintilla editing engine like SciTE and Notepad++

Wiki on a Stick

Amazing little one page fits all wiki

Roma

Create a full working application in short time writing only POJOs! Roma will render your POJOs as Ajaxed Web Pages, will store your business POJOs in the database, etc.