DeveLinks – 03-04-2009

Directly stolen convention from Irish blogs that I assume stems from Damien Mulley‘s Fluffy Links, “DeveLinks” will attempt to be no more than a weekly list of interesting web development related links collected from Twitter, emails, and various social and news portals. There are other blogs for other randomly curious links, and my twitter feed, so I don’t see the need to replicate this.

By the way, I’m keeping track of these generally by using Ben McRedmond‘s Picomarks service that he developed while doing work experience in Contrast (what a deliciously link-filled sentence).

Instant Domain Name Search Tool – App for checking the availability of .com/.net/.org names as you type. Would be a lot more useful if it worked with the extensive range of domains that other registrars offer, but it’s a nice idea.

NameChk.com – This one’s really nifty, simply checks for a given username on a large selection of widely known social networking sites all at once, allowing you an effective birds-eye view of your available name space on the Internet. Quite useful for users, especially useful for businesses.

Freelancer Hourly Rate Calculator – Put in all of your incomings and outgoings and get two figures at the end: your ideal hourly rate, and the minimal rate you need to break even.

Practical JSON Format Standard – David Coallier at the EchoLibre blog puts forward a proposal for a set of standards for JSON formatting. This has the feel of something that could explode into something powerful, watch this space.