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After being acquired by Google, Ether­Pad was open­sourced. Being it the kick­ass thing it is, I got itch­ing with the *need* to have my own ether­pad instance run­ning right away.

As I found out, scratch­ing that itch was actu­ally fast: it took me ~3 or so hours, and that includes trou­bleshoot­ing and gath­er­ing bits of info from all around. With a step-by-step how-to it’ll prob­a­bly take you a lot less than that!

mapper.js 2.3 allows you to add automatic area highlighting to image maps on your webpages (inc. export to SVG).

It works in all the major browsers – Mozilla Firefox 1.5+, Opera 9+, Safari and IE6+. On older browsers, it can use "jsgraphics" from Walter Zorn (if installed), else it'll degrade and your visitors won't notice a thing.

transm.js 1.0 allows you to add programmable image transitions to your webpages. It uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code clean.

It works in all the major browsers – Mozilla Firefox 1.5+, Opera 9+, Safari 2+, Chrome 3+ and IE 6+. Works also on older browsers supporting JS 1.5 and images and filter or opacity, else it'll degrade and your visitors won't notice a thing.

Two common types of spatial queries used in Maps mash-ups are proximity searches and bounding box queries. Proximity searches return all results within a certain distance of a location. Bounding box queries return all results in a bounding box of four points defined by its four corners. These types of searches are useful in a wide variety of mash-ups. For instance, a store finder on a website typically allows the user to show all stores within a certain radius. Or it may want to show all stores that are in the current map boundaries. While intuitively simple, these searches can be computationally difficult.

Orderly is a textual format for describing JSON. Orderly can be compiled into JSONSchema. It is designed to be easy to read and write.

Chef is an open source systems integration framework built to bring the benefits of configuration mangement to your entire infrastructure. You write source code to describe how you want each part of your infrastructure to be built, then apply those descriptions to your servers. The result is a fully automated infrastructure: when a new server comes on line, the only thing you have to do is tell Chef what role it should play in your architecture.

Unicode Code Converter

The Google Fusion Tables API is a set of statements that you can use to search for and retrieve Google Fusion Tables data, insert new data, update existing data, and delete data. The API statements are sent to the Google Fusion Tables server using HTTP GET requests (for queries) and POST requests (for inserts, updates, and deletes) from a Web client application.

Introducing Project Ares

Project Ares is the first mobile development environment hosted entirely in a browser, lowering the barriers for web developers to jump into mobile development.

This is the open source release of EtherPad, a web-based realtime collaborative document editor.

This project exists mainly as an exhibition of the code, to help support those who want to run or modify their own etherpad servers, or for those who are curious about how etherpad's algorithms make realtime collaboration possible.