On the hunt for the best open source resources and more

Yesterday Google lanched there newest tool called Buzz. Google Buzz makes it possible to follow online activities of your friends on other websites within your Gmail account. Users can follow with Google Buzz, Twitter updates, blogger posts or Flickr pictures of there friends. For now it’s not possible to use Google Buzz to update services like Twitter, but Google says that they are working on that.

Users can set there Buzz messages to public or private, which is very useful because public messages will be displayed on your Google profile and these public messages will be index by Google, so if you dont want that, you can set the message to private.

One of the more popular products for website developers today is ColdFusion. ColdFusion is an application server, meaning it allows users to create Internet applications for their web pages. This gives online business owners more control over their web design and web functionality and enhances user experience. ColdFusion uses CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language), a tag-based programming language similar to HTML or XML, but geared specifically to the ColdFusion applications.

Packt is a UK based publishing company specializing in focused IT books. Packt has published over 200 books on many different subjects and technologies like jQuery, Joomla, WordPress, PHP/MySQL, AJAX and more.

To celebrate there 5 years existence Packt is giving a way some nice ebooks for free. One of these free ebooks is “Building Websites with e107“. You can read all about these books here.

A couple of weeks ago Jeffrey Way published an article about 30 HTML best practices for beginners on NETTUTS.

A couple of weeks ago i decided to work in a more organized way, so i went on a search for a useful project managemt tool. On my search i came across a couple of well known project managementy tools like BaseCamp, Lighthouse and Springloops, all great tools but sadly not free (yes i am looking for a free tool). After lots of hours searching i finally found a project managent tool thats free. Project2Management is free to use and its almost the same like the paid versions on the web.

While reading one of my favorite sites (ccs-tricks) i came across a really nice article(i dont have seen a similar one yet) by Chris Coyier about a day in his life as a web designer.I am always very interested in how other people work and which programs/tools they use, and Chris has showed me in this article some really nice programs/tools. Notice that Chris is a mac user.

I make a living by building website/apps so i really like to do some things fast and easy that’s why i use a couple of FireFox add-ons in my FireFox brouwser.

By using add-ons in my FireFox brouwser i can test, validate, debug, measure, autofill forms, upload and much more in my brouwser without using other applications/programs(i dont like a crowded toolbar). I will name a couple of them which i really like and find very useful.

A couple of weeks ago the unthinkable happened, Google’s Gmail went offline for a couple of hours, you didn’t excpect that a big company as google has a product that goes offline for some technical problem.

IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 2, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.

AdesClrPicker is a very easy to use, yet powerful color picker application for Web Designers and Web Developers. It allows you to capture colors anywhere on the screen with a single click of the mouse and output it in either HTML, RGB, C++, VB and Delphi color codes.