Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

Do you need some tasty, high quality website background patterns for your next web project? Atle Mo from Subtle Patterns made us 12 beautiful subtle patterns free for download.

You can also check the result of each pattern by clicking the “Preview” button. They are all licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://subtlepatterns.com/
License: Creative Commons License

The 1140 grid fits perfectly into a 1280 monitor. On smaller monitors it becomes fluid and adapts to the width of the browser. Beyond a certain point it uses media queries to serve up a mobile version, which essentially stacks all the columns on top of each other so the flow of information still makes sense.

Scrap 1024! Design once at 1140 for 1280, and with very little extra work, it will adapt itself to work on just about any monitor, even mobile.

It works perfectly in Chrome, Safari, Firefox, IE7 & IE8. And it has been tested on MacBooks, an iMac, a PC laptop, an old PC, an Eee PC, an iPad, an iPhone 3G, an iPhone 4, a few Android phones, a Samsung Galaxy Tab, a BlackBerry and an older Nokia.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://cssgrid.net/
License: Creative Commons License

Apprise is an alert alternative for jQuery that looks good. Apprise is a very simple, fast, attractive, and unobtrusive way to communicate with your users. Also, this gives you complete control over style, content, position, and functionality.

Apprise is, more or less, for the developer who wants an attractive alert or dialog box without having to download a massive UI framework. It has been tested on Chrome 8.0+, Firefox 3.0+, Safari 4.0+, Internet Explorer 9.0.

Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://thrivingkings.com/apprise/
License: Creative Commons License

TinyBox2 modal box script brings a ton of new features and still clocks in under 5KB. The script now supports iframes and images natively. You can POST with Ajax. Clicking ESC will close the window. Callback functions can be passed for load and close events.

You can set CSS IDs to override the default styling. CSS position can be toggled between fixed and absolute. The mask opacity can be sent. You have full control over window location. And of course there is now a close button out of the box you can toggle.

This script is tested in IE7+, FF, Chrome, Opera, and Safari and is available free of charge for both personal or commercial projects under the creative commons license.

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Demo: http://sandbox.scriptiny.com/tinybox2/
License: Creative Commons License

Iconic is a minimal set of icons consisting of 136 marks. To give the greatest flexibility, the icon set packages all icons in PNG, SVG, SWC, OFT/TTF/EOT and Omnigraffle stencil formats. Iconic tries to work with various tools/workflows to make your life a bit easier.

All raster-format icons come in a wide variety of colors in order for greater convenience. The colors hit all the major hues in the spectrum as well as many colors used in the scheme on this site.This set is currently licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.

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Demo: http://somerandomdude.com/projects/iconic/
License: Creative Commons License

The Noun Project collects, organizes and adds to the highly recognizable symbols that form the world’s visual language, so we may share them in a fun and meaningful way. The symbols on the site are and always will remain free. They believe symbols can not be effectively shared with the world if they are not free.

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Demo: http://www.thenounproject.com/
License: Creative Commons License

MongoDB (from “humongous”) is a scalable, high-performance, open source, document-oriented database. It is written in C++. They built MongoDB from our own experiences building large scale, high availability, robust systems. They didn’t start from scratch, they really tried to figure out what was broken, and tackle that.

So the way about MongoDB is that if you take MySql, and change the data model from relational to document based, you get a lot of great features: embedded docs for speed, manageability, agile development with schema-less databases, easier horizontal scalability because joins aren’t as important. There are lots of things that work great in relational databases: indexes, dynamic queries and updates to name a few, and they haven’t changed much there.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://www.mongodb.org/
License: Creative Commons License

A while ago, we have featured Supersized, which is a Full Screen Background & Slideshow jQuery Plugin. Now, they are happy to announced Supersized 3.0. The ability of scrolling is added, so that you can have your site on top of Supersized. Increased performance for larger number of images. Images are now loaded from an array. And thumbnail navigation is also added for easy navigation.

Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://www.buildinternet.com/project/supersized/
License: Creative Commons 3.0 License

SpryMap is a super lightweight (2.8 KB), dependency free Javascript widget that turns any HTML element into a Google Maps-like click and drag window. SpryMap is released under the creative commons license, essentially you’re free to use it and adapt it for any personal or commercial purposes.

When using this script, you are given full control over how you want the map to act. What coordinates do you want it to start at? Do you want it to animate to a stop, or stop immediately when the user releases the mouse? Do you want the dragging to stop when an edge is hit? Would you like soup or salad with that? SpryMap aims to give you full control over how it acts.

Requirements: Javascript Enabled
Demo: http://candrews.net/sandbox/spryMap/
License: Creative Commons License