Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

Matt Berseth has written one brief post describing how you can incorporate the YUI style progress panel into your existing ASP.NET AJAX web application. He calculated the center of the control and manually placing the progress panel over the center of the rendered GridView. He made the calculation using the OnUpdating and OnUpdated animations of the UpdatePanelAnimationExtender. You can view the full tutorial on YUI Style AJAX Progress Indicator.

Requirements: YUI Framework
Demo: http://mattberseth2.com/yui_style_ajax_progress/
License: License Free

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MooMonth is a full calendar application written in javascript with the MooTools framework. Heavily configurable and customizable. It features smooth sexy transitions between different views. MooMonth is available under the CC-GNU LGPL license. So your are free to download an use it whenever you like. It looks very nice generally and I am always a big fan of the fade in and out effect.

However, MooMonth is still in alpha stages though, it will be several weeks before ready to be tested in production. Feel free to try it out and then give Dnalor your opinions and suggestions about the calendar.

Requirements: MooTools Framework Required
Demo: http://moomonth.com/example.html
License: LGPL License

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PopBox is an image magnification javascript solution for dynamically moving and resizing images on your web page. Javascript? Yes – I know it’s nothing new and that you’ve been able to move and resize things in Javascript for years, but only now is there a prepackaged solution that makes it as easy as 3 lines of HTML without knowing a lick about positioning! If your web site has a thumbnail image gallery then you need PopBox!

Requirements: Javascript Enabled
Demo: http://www.c6software.com/Products/PopBox/Default.aspx
License: License Free

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Flare is a collection of ActionScript 3 classes for building a wide variety of interactive visualizations. For example, flare can be used to build basic charts, complex animations, network diagrams, treemaps, and more. Flare is written in the ActionScript 3 programming language and can be used to build visualizations that run on the web in the Adobe Flash Player.

Flare applications can be built using the free Adobe Flex SDK or Adobe’s Flex Builder IDE. Flare is based on prefuse, a full-featured visualization toolkit written in Java. Flare is open source software licensed under the terms of the BSD license, and can be freely used for both commercial and non-commercial purposes.

Requirements: Flash
Demo: http://flare.prefuse.org/demo/
License: BSD License

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We love Mac, we love Fish Eye Menu. The idea behind a fisheye control is a strip of icons, being vertical or horizontally laid out that reacts to the user’s mouse as it approaches the icon. Here is a list of Nice Fish Eye Menu for you to dowload and use it in your web application.

CSS Dock Menu

Fish Eye Menu for Prototypejs

Fish Eye Menu for Mootools

DHTML Fish Eye Menu for Text

Fish Eye Menu Tutorial

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JFreeChart is a free 100% Java chart library that makes it easy for developers to display professional quality charts in their applications.The JFreeChart project was founded seven years ago, in February 2000, by David Gilbert. Today, JFreeChart is used by approximately 40,000 to 50,000 developers. JFreeChart’s extensive feature set includes:

• a consistent and well-documented API, supporting a wide range of chart types.
• a flexible design that is easy to extend, and targets both server-side and client-side applications.
• support for many output types, including Swing components, image files (including PNG and JPEG), and vector graphics file formats (including PDF, EPS and SVG).
• JFreeChart is “open source” or, more specifically, free software. It is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL), which permits use in proprietary applications.

Requirements: Java 2 platform (JDK version 1.3 or later)
Demo: http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/samples.html
License: LGPL License

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Lightbox is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. This frees you from the constraints of the layout, particularly column widths. However it only supports images.

Now Videobox is a 6kb script, which allows you to show your videos in Lightbox. It was inspired from Lightbox.v2 and uses some of the Slimbox’s code. It’s written for the wonderful mootools library. And used swfobject to embed flash. It has done a really great job, if you would like to show your videos in the page with an overlay, Videobox is a really great choice.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://videobox-lb.sourceforge.net/
License: MIT License

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minishowcase is a small and simple php/javascript online photo gallery, powered by AJAX/JSON that lets you put easily your images in an online gallery, without having to configure databases or changing and customising code (though you may do it if you feel so) allowing to have an up-and-running gallery in a few minutes. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 License and has the following major features.

• Simple galleries: just upload a folder full of images to your /galleries/ folder and you have a new gallery!
• Lightbox view: Images can be viewed in a lightbox way, easier and more precise, with a convenient integrated thumbnail menu.
• Languages: set your gallery in French, Italian or Spanish. Set it to select the user’s local language (if available). Translate it to your own language!
• Automatic thumbnails: you don’t have to worry anymore about creating your images’ thumbnails. Let minishowcase take care of it

Requirements: Server with PHP and GD/GD2 Support
Demo: http://minishowcase.frwrd.net/demo/
License: Creative Commons License

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The Flash Image Gallery (FIG) is a gallery application that can be used by anyone to display multiple galleries of photos, artwork, or other pictures with descriptions. It requires no server-side language and will run on any web host. It is idealy suited for artists with online galleries, but can be used by anyone. It supports up to 224 images in each gallery. The user interface is simple and intuitive. Most importantly, it is FREE.

Requirements: Any Modern Browsers with Flash and PHP Support
Demo: http://www.flashimagegallery.com/demo/
License: License Free

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Printable World Map is free of charge. You can use Printable World Map for Web site, Publication, TV, Education, Work, anything you like. Follow the easy steps, you can have your own colored world map in no time.

1. Click one or some countries, which you want to paint.
2. Select the color from the color palette. You will have clicked color, and the State’s color will change.
3. Click the “Fix color” button, if you will have liked color.
4. It repeats from 1 to 3.
5. Finally, click the “Download” button. Then you get printable world map.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://english.freemap.jp/world_paint/world_paint.html
License: License Free

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