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TBUZZ

Our wildly-popular Twitter client, TBUZZ lets you easily post to Twitter directly from your Web browser, and shows you what others are saying about that page. It works with all modern Web browsers.
Readability

Update February 1, 2011: Readability has launched as a full-blown reading platform that delivers a great reading experience provides a mechanism for supporting writers and publishers.
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git-sweep

git-sweep is a command-line tool that helps you clean up Git branches that have been merged into master. One of the best features of Git is cheap branches. There are existing branching models like GitHub Flow and Vincent Driessen’s git-flow that describe methods for using this feature. The problem Your… More
Donahue

[UPDATE: Visit the Donahue site or see Donahue presentations.] Donahue is a web app co-designed and built by Arc90 and Behavior Design. The original idea for Donahue was born out of frustration with the state of (in)attention paid to presenters at conferences. As the project evolved, the tool shifted to… More

JSDOM

Over the past few years, Javascript has matured from an "amateur’s programming language" into a full-fledged platform. Projects like Google Chrome and JQuery have helped elevate the language into a serious platform for delivering applications. On the server side, projects like Google’s V8 show off Javascript’s prowess and power beyond… More
ActionScript 3 XPath Library

One of the issues I’ve come across when dealing with XML in ActionScript 3 has been the inability to dynamically execute E4X queries. The need to do so arose several times, and one solution was to use RiaOne’s D.eval API. This solution is pretty robust; it’s a runtime parser/compiler for… More
HashMask

HashMask attempts to provide an easier-to-view visual “fingerprint” for users to recognize the password they’ve entered. Within the password text box, a sparkline is drawn to aid the user in recognizing what they’ve entered.
HalfMask

HalfMask is an experimental approach to masking on password fields. Rather than just showing bullets or asterisks, HalfMask presents visual cues so the user can easily read their own password.

ActionScript XML Binding

… converting to and from XML is an often laborious, and certainly tedious, task.
Best Buy Remix API client (PHP)

BestBuy Remix API Client is a PHP library for placing HTTP calls to the Best Buy Remix API.
SqlWatcher: Ad-hoc database change monitoring

How many times have you needed to debug an application and wished, just wished, you had put better …
Yeller

Yeller is a PHP script that lets a group post messages to a single Twitter account using Yammer.

JSON CSS: A More Powerful CSS Proof of Concept

JSON CSS is a proof of concept meant to demonstrate what could be accomplished with a more powerful syntax within CSS.
Adding a Drop Shadow to an Element, then Centering It

Most drop shadow techniques require floating the element, which undermines the item being centered.
Yammer API Client Library

Our Yeller API Client allows direct programmatic integration with Yammer from PHP.
Java Encrypter

Encrypter is a simple Java class for encrypting a java object to text, and later reversing the process.