desktop application

It’s been a few months since I mentioned it, but php|tek 2011 is quickly closing in on us.

Stephane Graber's website: "You can now test drive anything that's available in the Ubuntu archive. At the moment that's over 1300 desktop application that you can test this way.

Basically any GUI app that requires less than 150MB of space to install and that's not in one of my blacklists."

Tuxtorial: Tuxtorial makes it easy to write and share tutorials for software in Linux. An intuitive desktop application helps you gather screenshots, code fragments, and outputs from shell commands...

Desktop Linux Reviews: "Hulu is one of the most popular video sites on the web. You can watch all kinds of different television shows and movies right in your browser.

But there’s also another way to watch Hulu and that’s to download the Hulu Desktop application for Linux."

On the ThinkPHP blog today there's a new post looking at one of the better offerings for making desktop applications with the web-related skills you already know - CodeStrong (as a part of the Appcelerator/Titanium project).

LinuxLinks: "Three of the clients featured here (TweetDeck, twhirl, and Spaz) use Adobe's Air application framework to provide cross-platform compatibility.

Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) is a cross-platform runtime environment for building rich Internet applications using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, or Ajax, that can be deployed as a desktop application."

The Twitpocalypse, while an amusing concept in principle, may not have passed uneventfully.

Twitterrific, the popular Twitter app, has now confirmed (on Twitter) reports from our readers that its iPhone version is affected.

I have decided to let the geeks out there solve a problem for me. The problem is writing a quick and dirty solution to a temporary problem.

I have an idea but I am interested to see what others have to say.

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