Browsing Software

This project fascinates me — not just because it uses Drupal as its foundation and is thus an exciting example of viral "on the shoulders of giants" open-source development, but because, in both name and organizational methodology, it puts social responsibility at the heart of the development process.  Definitely a group to watch.

The home of GNU (for GNU's Not UNIX) and the legacy of computer legend Richard Stallman, this site is your starting point for a world (literally) of free software.

Update NASA came out with v1.4 of World Wind in February 2007.  This release adds an improved GPS Tracker plugin and 3D model support.  If you think Google Earth has all you need, think again.  NASA is working with Sun Microsystems  on World Wind Java, copmlete with a Java + OpenGL API.  And while there's some coordinate- and data-set overlap between Google Earth and World Wind, it's actually pretty minimal.  Each provides resources the other doesn't.  And, the way things seem to be going, it seems we sure could use a spare planet anyway.

IBM DeveloperWorks has a great write-up of IDE's for PHP development.  I think it's high time I gradudated from JEdit (still my all-time fave text editor), bit the proverbial bullet and installed Eclipse.  Let's see if it can do for my PHP productivity what it once did for my Java.

A remarkably thorough and well-executive overview of several hundred open-source and commercial Web-based content-management systems, complete with a database that provides an apples-to-apples comparison of up to 10 systems side-by-side.  Whoever did this deserves some fan mail.