With the introduction of the XMPP service to App Engine, it’s now possible to write an App Engine app that communicates with users – or even other applications – over XMPP, otherwise known as Jabber or Google Talk. In this article, we’re going to walk through an example that covers all the basic functionality of the XMPP API.
http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/using_xmpp.html
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Joomla CMS
Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.
http://www.joomla.org
Sphinx – Python Documentation Generator
Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation, written by Georg Brandl and licensed under the BSD license.
http://sphinx.pocoo.org/
Django
Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
http://www.djangoproject.com/
web2py Enterprise Web Framework
Free and open source full-stack enterprise framework for agile development of fast, scalable, secure and portable database-driven web-based applications. Written and programmable in Python .
http://www.web2py.com/
Simple Newsletter Script – php, js, html
Form for people to enter their email address, put this on any page
<form action="mailing.php" method="post" class="style16"> <input type="text" name="email" size="30" value="your email here!"> <input type="submit" value="GO!" name="submit"> </form>
File called mailing.php will processes the adding of emails to the list.
<?php
$email = $_POST['email'];
$file = fopen("mailing.txt", "a");
fwrite($file, "\n" . $email);
fclose($file);
header("Location: mailing_thankyou.php");
?>
Create a file called mailing.txt with nothing in it, when uploaded to the server set it writable (chmodd 666 or 777).
Create a file called mailing_thankyou.php, simple a page thanking them for signing up.
<html>
<head>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh"
CONTENT="3; URL=/URL_TO_REDIRECT">
</head>
<body>
<center>
Thank you!
</center>
</body>
</html>
File to send the newsletter, create a file called anything you want.
<?php
$send = $_POST['send'];
if($send){
$email = $_POST['email'];
$emailfile = file_get_contents("mailing.txt");
$emaillist = explode("\n", $emailfile);
foreach ($emaillist as $value)
{
mail($value, $_POST['subject'], $_POST['message'], "From: $email");
}
echo "<b>Email sent!</b><br />";
}
?>
<form action="<?php $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post">
<table width="481" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr valign="top">
<td width="84" align="right" valign="top" class="style32">Subject:</td>
<td width="397" align="left" class="style32">
<input name="subject" type="text" id="subject" size="41" maxlength="100">
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td width="84" align="right" valign="top" class="style32">From:</td>
<td align="left" class="style32"><input name="email" type="text" id="email" size="41" maxlength="100"></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td align="right" valign="top" class="style32">Message:</td>
<td align="left" class="style32">
<textarea name="message" cols="37" rows="4" id="message"></textarea>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td align="right" valign="top" class="style32"> </td>
<td align="left" class="style32">
<input name="send" type="submit" id="send" value="SUBMIT">
<input name="Reset" type="reset" id="Reset" value="RESET">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
Lift – The Simply Functional Web Framework
Lift is an expressive and elegant framework for writing web applications. Lift stresses the importance of security, maintainability, scalability and performance, while allowing for high levels of developer productivity. Lift open source software licensed under an Apache 2.0 license.
Scala Programming Language
Scala is a general purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. It smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages, enabling Java and other programmers to be more productive. Code sizes are typically reduced by a factor of two to three when compared to an equivalent Java application.