Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

WYMeditor is a web-based WYSIWYM XHTML editor. WYMeditor has been created to generate perfectly structured XHTML strict code, to conform to the W3C XHTML specifications and to facilitate further processing by modern applications.

With WYMeditor, the code can’t be contaminated by visual informations like font styles and weights, borders, colors, …The end-user defines content meaning, which will determine its aspect by the use of style sheets. The result is easy and quick maintenance of information.

WYMeditor has been integrated in many open or proprietary applications, such as: Drupal, Symphony, Radiant, TYPO3, WordPress, Rails, CakePHP and etc…

Requirements: -
Demo: http://files.wymeditor.org/wymeditor/trunk/src/examples/
License: MIT, GPL License

Product Planner was born out of the need to help people understand and create user flows for their web products. The idea is that by looking at examples of other successful web products, you can get a better idea of how to create your own.

Product Planner is actually useful for creating a demo tour for web applications too. You can create a work flow for performing a specific task with your web application. So that user can understand how to use your web application easily by reading the work flow step by step with screenshots.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://productplanner.com
License: License Free

Chronoscope is an open source release of a charting and visualization platform for GWT, used as the centerpiece of Timepedia’s website. Chronoscope provides a high performance, cross browser platform for visualizing possibly large and complex datasets. It supports interactive framerates on datasets with tens of thousands of points by using multiresolution representation and incremental streaming.

When the number of points about to be plotted exceeds a certain heuristic, Chronoscope falls back to a lower resolution representation of the dataset, which can be provided by the user, or automatically calculated by various filtering algorithms. This is similar to mip-mapping techniques commonly used in 3D graphics to reduce bandwidth and decrease aliasing. It also gives non-programmers intuitive controls over almost every aspect of the look of a visualization.

Requirements: Google Web Toolkit
Demo: http://timepedia.org/chronoscope/
License: LGPL License

ScreenToaster is a free online screen recorder which allows you to Make screencasts, tutorials and demos. You can record your screen in one click without any downloads. It is compatible with Windows, Mac OS X, Linux. You can also share videos on the Internet in Flash, embed them on blogs/webpages or send them by email.

ScreenToaster is operated by Iteria, SARL with offices in the heart of Paris, France. They are a small team of high-skilled web engineers, developing state-of-the-art web 2.0 services for Internet users. They have already raised a first round of capital to actively support ScreenToaster. Look forward to see the on-going development of ScreenToaster.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://www.screentoaster.com/
License: License Free

quickSearch is a jQuery plugin for filtering large sets of data. It supports Tables, Paragraphs and Lists. It’s very easy to use ‘out of the box’. As easy as:

$(search_elements).quicksearch(options);

quickSearch v2.0 was written with speed in mind, it is now a lot quicker than the previous version and it is completely backwards-compatible with any previous code written.

You can also look at another jQuery QuickSilver Live Search Plugin we mentioned earlier, it is able to recognize which items you are searching for if you just use abbreviations, so you can type entire words, or just fragments of each.

Requirements: jQuery framework
Demo: http://rikrikrik.com/jquery/quicksearch
License: License Free

Scroll Follow is a simple jQuery plugin that enables a DOM object to follow the page as the user scrolls. It means the plugin allows an element to animate down as the user scrolls the page. Scroll Follow has been successfully, though not extensively, tested on IE6, IE7, FF2, FF3, Safari 3, and Opera 9 all on Windows. You can also set the the duration of the sliding animation.

Requirements: jQuery framework
Demo: http://kitchen.net-perspective.com/open-source/scroll-follow/
License: MIT License

SmashingMagazine has released Fresh: an application and financial icon set. This icon set is a fresh and lively collection of 59 high-quality stylish icons in standard sizes ranging from 16×16 to 256×256 pixels. All the icons included in the set have a clean, modern look and have consistency and harmony in both perspective and color. There is also one vector file containing editable EPS icons that can be rescaled to any size while retaining their original detail.

You can use the set for websites, web applications, desktop applications or anywhere beautiful icons are essential. You can use the icons for private and commercial projects, blogs and web-sites for free, without any restrictions whatsoever.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/10/09/finance…
License: License Free

TypeNeu is an odyssey in typography. TypeNeu reports on the past, present and the future of typographic culture, with main focus on typefaces and applied typography in different forms. You can see many different typography from book, fashion, illustration, magazine, packaging, poster, print and etc… Please enjoy and get some inspiration.

Source: TypeNEU – An Odyeesey in Typography

For over 25 years, U-Printing has been a trusted leader in online printing especially business cards printing, featuring its signature easy-to-use website and also provide customers with consistently high-quality printing at the lowest possible prices.

U-Printing offers WebAppers 10,000 free business cards. We have decided to give away 1,000 cards to 10 readers. You can choose any of their business cards, including the eco-friendly cover stock (13 pt. Cover Uncoated – Recycled) or the the 14 pt. family in Matte, AQ, or UV at any custom size they offer such as square cards, odd sizes like 3×3, 2×2. I am sure you would really benefit from getting these free business cards to promote your design, coding or web services.

To participate, you can simply leave a comment about what you would use the cards for. And we will draw 10 winners on 1st Nov 2008. Act quick and have a chance to win 1,000 free business cards printing now!

P.S. The shipping cost will be free for United States and Canada only. So if they live outside those areas, you will have to pay for shipping but the cards will still be free.