MantisBT is a free popular web-based bugtracking system feature list. It is written in the PHP scripting language and works with MySQL, MS SQL, and PostgreSQL databases and a webserver. MantisBT has been installed on Windows, Linux, Mac OS, OS/2, and others. Almost any web browser should be able to function as a client. It is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License GPL.

via Mantis Bug Tracker.

When we released our report on the colors of the social web, based on data analyzed by our Twitter theme tool, we were surprised that blue was such a dominant color in people’s profile designs. Was Twitter’s default color influencing their design decisions? Or is blue really THE most popular and dominant color online? …We decided to look at the colors in the brands from the top 100 sites in the world to see if we could paint a more colorful picture.

via The Most Powerful Colors in the World.

An impressive usage of augmented reality

Tissot Augmented Reality.

It is not an advanced benchmark but the two lightweight web servers seems to be almost the same, Lighttpd seems a little bit better.

The only certainty we have now is the superiority of these servers in deliver static files against apache.

via Benching Lighttpd vs Nginx static files and Apache vs Lighttpd

The developing of a brand-new web site, or its redesign, always starts with a prototype of the graphic. And because a picture is worth a thousand words, is always more useful to sketch the site interface than describing it in a document.

But what is the right tool to choose, when building a prototype? Well, it depends on the problem, and on the status of the project. A single prototype will never be sufficient for the customer to understand how the site will be: for each phase of the project design, there’s an appropriate tool. This article explains them all!

via Match the Tool to the Problem – 52 Weeks of UX.

Apache CouchDB is a free and open source document-oriented DBMS which can be queried through the standard REST operations (those of HTTP). Instead of relying on a set of tables with a fixed structure, it uses the documents as storage units. These documents are natively served as JSON key-value pairs, in a fully web style.

CouchDB is specialized for hadling very large databases which can be natively distributed and replicated over several servers. Its RESTful API allows to query the databases from all languages, and even from a simple web browser, or a command line. This tutorial from IBM explains how to query CouchDB from PHP, employing a object-oriented wrapper.

Via CouchDB basics for PHP developers.

MySQL is nowadays a standard in the field of databases for the Web. But what are the best tools for MySQL database management?

If you are looking for an alternative to PHPMyAdmin or MySQL GUI Tools here is a review of 10 graphical tools, either free or commercial.

via Top 10 MySQL GUI Tools — DatabaseJournal.com.

A really accurate Pattern for matching URLs in an arbitrary string of text.

Works with PCRE (Pearl, PHP) and Oniguruma(Ruby, TextMate, etc..)

via [ An Improved Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs ]

This module provides an easy-to-use interface to allow you to run multiple CURL url fetches in parallel in PHP

via [ParallelCurl]

The brand new iOS4 fully support the Objective-C’s Block.

This Post show two examples of how blocks can simplify some operations and give a brief introduction to the basics of the blocks.

Via Using Blocks in iOS 4