I have been actively and religiously following the StackOverflow initiative started earlier this year by Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood . I have been listening to every podcast, finding the content of their discussions informative and interesting, often bringing some reality and realism to the world of development and IT. Jeff e-mailed me a link to the beta about 2 weeks ago, however due to my own personal commitments with Tech-Ed South Africa I was not able to spend a lot of time on the site. I have...
While working with a client recently I noticed he was running some interesting desktop widgets. He pointed me to the Yahoo Widgets website and I've been hooked ever since. There is a few sidebar and widgets systems out there and I am not sure how I missed this particular one, as I have never been a big fun of Yahoo's software, however the Widget Engine is in short quite brilliant. The Yahoo Widget engine has a very small memory footprint, and each widget is highly configurable. All widgets can be...