MikeOS
If you like to read code, this is the OS for you. It’s a simple 16-bit OS written with the goal of demonstrating the basics of OS development. I’m not much of an assembly programmer (at all), but I was able to grab the tarball and read through, and learn a few tidbits right off the bat. Oh, and it’s got tetris. ;)

Jones Forth
Similar to MikeOS, Jones Forth is a wonderfully literate implementation of a FORTH compiler. You can just jump right to the source file and start learning. To quote the author:

FORTH is one of those alien languages which most working programmers regard in the same way as Haskell, LISP, and so on. Something so strange that they’d rather any thoughts of it just go away so they can get on with writing this paying code. But that’s wrong and if you care at all about programming then you should at least understand all these languages, even if you will never use them.

Three Small Javascript Libraries
A good post by Oliver Steele, describing three interesting libraries that really flex a bit of javscript, beyond the everyday DOM manipulation. Fluently – which allows you to easily create “chainable methods” (ala jQuery), MOP JS – which allows for some slick metaprogramming around asynchronous calls, and Collections JS – implements some nice utilities for collections.

TaffyDB – A Javascript DB
At first, my reaction to this was ,“Why?!” But then I mulled it over a bit more. I can see quite a few uses for this, especially in this modern era of “never reload the page.” I’m envisioning stateful browser apps neatly keeping their state, and transacting with the servide data store through tidy little JSON snippets. [via Joe’s Blog]

Open Source Web Design
If you’re mainly a programmer, but would love to turn out sites with a bit more fit and finish, this site is for you. They provide packaged “site designs” which include sample HTML, css and images in a ready-to-download zip file. Lots of styles to choose from, and frequent new additions make it very helpful. [via lifehacker]

MySQL Performance Blog
This is one of those sites/blogs that you find while researching one topic, and then just keep reading and reading. Tons of well written, informative and helpful entries. Great discussion in the comments and on the attached forums.

The post that first sucked me in was Why MySQL could be slow with large tables ?

Benchmarking [php] magic
A great entry that considers the cost of many of the new features in the PHP5 object model. Also situated on another great blog that’s worth adding to your feed collection.

Amazon SimpleDB
A very interesting addition to their much talked about Web Service suite, SimpleDB provides a database (or directory service) in their computing cloud, along side S3, EC2 and others. With a pay-as-you-go model and some interesting features, this is the kind of environment that is sure to foster some awesome new projects.

Brady Forrest provides a great overview of the product and pricing on O’Reilly Radar.

http://www.soulsphere.org/stuffage/bsd/

For AutoBlogger, I decided to release it under the MIT (or X11 license, as it were). Reading a couple, I realized that there had to be a webapp somewhere that would stick my name and such in all the appropriate places. And there was.

It also generates BSD licenses (with or without advertising clause). Sure, it’s an incredibly simple application, but I found it useful.