Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

Iconbench is web application where you can easily style icons and then choose the ones you want to download. At the moment, Iconbench has more than 5 different iconsets with more than 700 different icons for you to choose from.

Iconbench provide a free to use service where you can easily choose up to 20 icons fully styled by yourself. You are free to usethe icons for your projects such as websites, mobile apps, web apps and more. Only your imagination sets the barrier of what you can do with them.

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Download Link: http://iconbench.com/
License: License Free

Fontfabric type foundry presents Prime free font – unique sans serif techy fonts! Prime is a simple typeface with a techy feel and a strict, geometric origin.

Max Pirsky wanted to create something that offers great readability in various sizes yet still offers enough subtle differences to stand out. Basic and somewhat neutral, it can be used in a variety of ways from distinct titles to body text.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://fontfabric.com/prime-free-font/
License: FFF EULA License

Pomelo is a fast, scalable game server framework for node.js. It provides the basic development framework and a lot of related components, including libraries and tools. Pomelo is also suitable for realtime web application, its distributed architecture makes pomelo scales better than other realtime web framework.

It’s easy to use, the development model is quite similiar to web, using convention over configuration, almost zero config. The api is also easy to use. The framework is extensible. All the components, libraries and tools are individual npm modules, anyone can create their own module to extend the framework. The reference is quite complete, they have complete documents. They also provide a full open source MMO demo (html5 client), which is a far more better reference than any books.

Requirements: Node.js Framework
Demo: http://pomelo.netease.com/
License: MIT License

Heyoffline.js is warns your users when their network goes down. In order to make sure they don’t lose anything. Heyoffline.js is framework-agnostic. No need for jQuery. It’s written in CoffeeScript, and compiled into JavaScript. Heyoffline.js is released under an MIT License, so do with it what you will.

Requirements: JavaScript Framework
Demo: http://oskarkrawczyk.github.com/heyoffline.js/
License: MIT License

Batch is a lovingly designed and crafted suite of 300 icons for web and user interface design. Each icon is a single Photoshop shape layer meaning they can be scaled up – and down – without loss of quality. Adding layer styles and blend modes is also a breeze.

Batch is completely free because Adam Whitcroft wants to see Batch in as many designs as possible. He wants it to be a resources designers will revert to happily and often, and without the fear of forgetting a silly attribution link.

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Demo: http://adamwhitcroft.com/batch/
License: License Free

Adaptive Thumbnail Pile Effect with Automatic Grouping is an experimental jQuery plugin that will group thumbnails by a shared data-attribute into a pile. When clicking on the pile, the thumbnails that belong to that pile will be spread into a grid using CSS transitions.

This allows the automatic grouping of thumbnails using a pile effect. The thumbnails will group according to their shared data-pile attribute and once clicked, the pile will disperse and its thumbnails fly to their positions. The thumbnails can be slightly rotated or positioned with a delay.

And best of all, the grid itself is adaptive, meaning that if there is not enough horizontal space considering the width and the gutter of the items, the column count will decrease and the grid will re-order.

Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://tympanus.net/Development/Stapel/
License: License Free

Dynatree is a jQuery plugin that allows to dynamically create html tree view controls using JavaScript. It is optimized for large dynamic trees (DOM elements are only created when really needed). Programmable through a rich object oriented interface. It support for lazy loading and Ajax.

It supports Checkboxes and hierarchical selection, drag and drop, persistence. And it is Keyboard aware. It is open source and released under MIT License.

Requirements: jQuery Framework
Download Link: https://code.google.com/p/dynatree/
License: MIT License

CSSrefresh is a small, unobstructive javascript file that monitors the CSS-files included in your webpage. As soon as you save a CSS-file, the changes are directly implemented, without having to refresh your browser.

When you’re coding a website, nothing can be more frustrating than having to switch from the texteditor to the browser over and over again, just for small changes to occur. With CSSrefresh installed, all the included stylesheets are automatically refreshed directly after you save them. Using CSSrefresh is easy. You can either include the javascript-file in your webpage, or use the bookmarklet.

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Download Link: http://cssrefresh.frebsite.nl/
License: MIT, GPL License

PayPal alone blocks access from over 60 countries, and many credit card companies have similar restrictions. Some are blocked for political reasons, some because of higher fraud rates, and some for other financial reasons. Due to this reason, WordPress has recently accept Bitcoin as one of the payment methods.

Bitcoin is a digital currency that enables instant payments over the internet. Unlike credit cards and PayPal, Bitcoin has no central authority and no way to lock entire countries out of the network. Merchants who accept Bitcoin payments can do business with anyone. Bitcoin is open-source. Nobody owns it; the most popular client is maintained by a community of open-source developers.

Bitcoin verifies transactions with the same state-of-the-art encryption that is used in military and government applications. Using the Bitcoin network is free, except for a voluntary fee you can use to speed up transaction processing.

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Download Link: http://www.weusecoins.com/
License: MIT License