Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

If you’re going to write an insanely fast, headless browser, how can you not call it Zombie? Zombie it is. Zombie.js is a lightweight framefork for testing client-side JavaScript code in a simulated environment. No browser required.

Requirements: Javascript
Demo: http://zombie.labnotes.org/
License: MIT License

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DHTMLX Touch is an HTML5-based JavaScript library for building mobile web applications. It’s not just a set of UI widgets, but a complete framework that allows you to create eye-catching, cross-platform web applications for mobile and touch-screen devices.

The framework is compatible with the major web browsers for mobile platforms. Applications built with DHTMLX Touch will run smoothly on iPad, iPhone, Android-based smartphones, and other popular devices.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://www.dhtmlx.com/touch/
License: GPL License

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Today we are going to look at the end-to-end tools and options you have for Building Large-Scale Enterprise jQuery Applications. Addy Osmani has put together a toolkit for large-scale jQuery application development by identifying the options you have available at the moment for dependency management, MVC with jQuery, templating, testing, minification and more.

Source: http://addyosmani.com/blog/large-scale-jquery/

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Custom scrollbar plugin utilizing jquery UI that’s fully customizable with CSS. It features vertical/horizontal scrolling, mouse-wheel support (via Brandon Aaron jquery mouse-wheel plugin), scroll easing and adjustable scrollbar height/width.

You simply need to include jquery.min.js and jquery-ui.min.js, the jquery.easing.1.3.js (the plugin that handles animation easing), jquery.mousewheel.min.js (to support mouse-wheel functionality) and the jquery.mCustomScrollbar.css which is the file where you can style your content and scrollbars.

Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://manos.malihu.gr/tuts/jquery_custom_scrollbar.html
License: License Free

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Contained Sticky Scroll allows you to create an element that will “stick” to the top of the window as the user scrolls, but which will not move outside of its parent element.

The download package contains both full and minified versions of the .js file, along with a demo page which explains the various options that can be used to configure each initialization of the plugin’s functionality. It has been tested the plugin in recent versions of Firefox, Chrome, Safari and even Internet Explorer 8.

Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://blog.echoenduring.com/wp-content/uploads/demos…
License: License Free

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SimpleGeo provides an extremely scalable, cloud-based interface for storing, managing, and querying location data. Their prime offering includes a data library, tools for analyzing geodata, and mobile SDKs for quickly deploying advanced location features.

All of the SimpleGeo API is available through a REST interface using OAuth authentication. SimpleGeo data is made up of layers, which contain records. Each record can have metadata attached in the form of properties.

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

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MooTune is a MooTools class for logging events, errors and AB tests to multiple backends such as Google Analytics, Mixpanel or your own server logs. It can be used to gain insights into the actions your user’s take on your site, the errors they encounter and the affect of variations on the site with their interactions.

Requirements: MooTools Framework
Demo: http://www.mootools.net/forge/p/mootune
License: License Free

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JS1k is a really nice contest for coding tiny 1 kb Javascript programs and try to do something nice in that few available space. Román Cortés has created a a 3D Christmas tree. He used several tricks to make the code fit in 1 kb.

The most of them are the usual tricks for reducing Javascript code size, like renaming variables to single character names, removing white spaces, unnecesary semi-colons and so on. The Christmas tree looks amazing, however it doesn’t work in IE, and works slow in some browsers. Merry Christmas!

Requirements: Javascript enabled
Demo: http://js1k.com/2010-xmas/demo/856
License: License Free

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Premium Pixels is a collection of free design resources created by Orman Clark. He is a UK based web designer with a passion for all things creative. All resources are aimed at helping fellow designers either learn something new or just save a bit of time. All files can be used for both personal and commercial use and are 100% free of charge.

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

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S4 is a general-purpose, distributed, scalable, partially fault-tolerant, pluggable platform that allows programmers to easily develop applications for processing continuous unbounded streams of data.

S4 fills the gap between complex proprietary systems and batch-oriented open source computing platforms. We aim to develop a high performance computing platform that hides the complexity inherent in parallel processing system from the application programmer.

S4 was released by Yahoo! Inc. in October 2010 under the Open Source Apache 2.0 license, which allows the user of the software the freedom to use the software for any purpose, to distribute it, to modify it, and to distribute modified versions of the software, under the terms of the license.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://s4.io/
License: Apache 2.0 License

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