• D.C.T.W.Y.C.D.T: vim: lightning fast navigation in a large software project
  Love vim but need to work with a large software project that spans a dozen subdirectories and a bazillion source files? There are plenty of solutions, vim scripts or external tools, for this particular problem. Here is one that I've used for years: using the marvelous project script.
  (tags: vim vi software programming productivity)

• Free Terminal Services for Linux
  NoMachine is offering a free version of NXServer that allows at most two concurrent connections and two users
  (tags: terminal linux administration remote)

• Dynamically loading plugins in Java (without OSGi)
  (tags: java programming development)
• Jackson JSON Processor
  (tags: json javascript java library programming webdev)
• The new and improved Vim editor
  If you've worked on IBM® AIX®, another flavor of UNIX®, or Linux®, you've more than likely used the vi editor. Since its conception in 1976, vi has become a staple for anyone wanting to edit files. How could someone make a more powerful editing tool than vi, you may ask? The answer is Vim, and this article provides details on the many enhancements that have made Vim a highly used and acceptable editor in the world of UNIX and Linux.
  (tags: vim vi editor unix)
• bitlyff
  The bitlyff Firefox extension enables you to shorten the URL of a page or of links on a page from the context menu using the bit.ly URL-shortener service (http://bit.ly/go).

  Additionally you can display bit.ly specific information about a web page, like mirror or thumbnail URLs.

  (tags: firefox extension extensions bitly webdev)
• couchdb4j
  An updated java library for interacting with the newer JSON-based CouchDB.
  (tags: couchdb java programming library)
• jqCouch - CouchDB connection plugin
  jQuery plugin for CouchDB, handling different type of couchdb connections.
  (tags: couchdb javascript jquery json programming webdev ajax)
• Json-lib
  JSONSerializer can transform any java object to JSON notation and back with a simple and clean interface, leveraging all the builders in JSONObject and JSONArray. To transform a java obect into JSON use JSONSerializer.toJSON(). To transform a valid JSON value (by JSON, I mean an Object implementing that interface), use toJava(). The last method is an instance method because the serializer needs special configuration to transform a JSON value to a bean class, array, List or DynaBean.
  (tags: library json javascript programming java)
• FeatherDB
  FeatherDB is a Java based document database. It has an all HTTP/REST interface. It supports querying by a Java class (added as a jar to the server), or via JavaScript (uses Java6's JavaScript support). In theory you could also search by any language that is on the JVM and implements the correct interface.
  (tags: webdev programming database rest javascript)
• Deal with errors in XML parsing
  With the ease of XML parsing in the newer Java™ language APIs, from JAXP to JAXB to JAX-WS, XML parsing has become foundational to Java programming. But with the abstractions and higher-level APIs comes an apparent loss of control over the fine-grained interactions between a parser and your XML data. This typically leads to more errors or worse, a complete halt of parsing when even the smallest problem arises. Fortunately, the Simple API for XML (SAX) still provides an easy-to-use means of dealing with errors and you can access that mechanism even when you don't use SAX directly.
  (tags: programming xml java)
• Ajax overhaul, Part 4: Retrofit existing sites with jQuery and Ajax forms
  (tags: ajax javascript webdev programming)
• Javascript Keyboard Shortcuts - Acunote
  Acunote Shortcuts is a JavaScript library providing everything you need to make add rich keyboard shortcut functionality to a web application. With a few lines of code you can have Gmail-like single and multi-key keyboard shortcuts covering the essential functionality.
  (tags: webdev programming javascript keyboard development)
• MIT’s Introduction to Algorithms: Lectures 1 and 2 - good coders code, great reuse
  The first lecture is given by the famous professor Charles E. Leiserson. He is the L in CLRS. If that doesn’t ring you a bell - it’s one of the most popular books on algorithms!

  He starts the lecture by explaining what this course and algorithms will be all about. He says that this course will be about “Analysis of Algorithms” and states: “Analysis of algorithms is the theoretical study of computer program performance and resource usage”.

  (tags: videos video science opensource opencourse)

• Java run-time monitoring, Part 1: Run-time performance and availability monitoring for Java systems
  Run-time performance monitoring is critical to achieving and maintaining a well-performing system. In this article, the first in a three-part series, Nicholas Whitehead explains how to do low-level granular monitoring of Java™ performance efficiently. The data you generate can provide valuable insights into system operation and reveal constraints and influences that affect an environment's stability and performance.
  (tags: java administration monitoring performance)

• syntaxhighlighter
  SyntaxHighlighter is here to help a developer/coder to post code snippets online with ease and have it look pretty. It's 100% Java Script based and it doesn't care what you have on your server.
  (tags: webdev programming webdesign)
• keyczar
  Keyczar is an open source cryptographic toolkit designed to make it easier and safer for devlopers to use cryptography in their applications. Keyczar supports authentication and encryption with both symmetric and asymmetric keys.
  (tags: google programming development java python security library crypto cryptography)
• jetlang
  Jetlang provides a high performance java threading library. The library is based upon Retlang.
  The library is a complement to the java.util.concurrent package introduced in 1.5. The library should be used for message based concurrency similar to event based actors in Scala.
  The library does not provide remote messaging capabilities. It is designed specifically for high performance in-memory messaging.
  (tags: java programming development threading library concurrency threads)

I started a firefox extension project. The bit.lyff addon enables you to shorten URLs from the context menu using the URL-shorten service bit.ly. Additionally you can display bit.ly specific information about a web page, like mirror or thumbnail URLs.

Please see the bit.lyff page for more information or jump directly to the Google Code or Mozilla addon pages.