Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

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There’s a shift underway in how people use computers and the Internet. Every day more utility is being delivered over the Web. Full applications can now be run in a browser, accessible from any computer. Software? It’s no longer required. Software is becoming Webware.

We need to look at some professional and successful web applications in order to get inspiration. There are a lot of the top web applications in this place. It is called Webware which is the site where computer users can learn about new and useful Web applications. You might want to have a look at Webware 100 which showcases the top 100 web applications.

Webware is edited by Rafe Needleman. Rafe was Editor of CNET.com in the early days, 1997 to 1998. During the dot-com bubble he worked at Red Herring, where he wrote Catch of the Day, a daily online column about startups. In the three years of writing the column he interviewed more than 1,000 startup CEOs.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.webware.com
License: N/A

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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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Are you looking for some photos under creative commons? Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through photos under each type of license. You might be able to find some fresh and nice photos for you website.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
License: Creative Commons License

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When developing PHP applications a great deal of time and effort is wasted writing tedious SQL queries to create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) entities. This situation is exacerbated when working with objects because relational database management systems, with which most persistent storage is maintained, can only store scalar values organized into tables. The developer is responsible for translating objects into a series of scalar values. This translation process is often very time consuming.

Junction maps an object’s state to a database, letting application developers concentrate on application level details. It is the glue between your application and its database, and it is easy to use and extensible.

Requirements: PHP 5+
Demo: http://junctionphp.com/
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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There are tons of color pickers out there. The main difference in Photoshop-Like Javascript Color Picker is that it has all 6 picking options (H,S,V,R,G,B) not just Hue. To create the color mixing, the larger map is made of two layers and the vertical slider has four layers (two are used for H, S, or B; four layers for R, G, or B). Some others pickers use this method for a hue map, but don’t include the other maps (S,V,R,G,B).The JavaScript is made up of some color methods, a slider control, a handler for input, and the ColorPicker object to put it all together.

Requirements: IE5.5, IE6, IE7, FF2, Opera 9, Safari 2
Demo: http://johndyer.name/lab/colorpicker/
License: License Free

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OpenCart is an open source PHP-based online shopping cart system. A robust e-commerce solution for Internet merchants with the ability to create their own online business and participate in e-commerce at a minimal cost.

OpenCart is designed feature rich, easy to use, search engine friendly and with a visually appealing interface. It is not as pretty as Magento, but it is still a very good alternative of paid shopping cart system. Now, log on to the administration section to see how the back-end works with Username: demo / Password: demo.

Visit the live demonstration site to get a feel for how OpenCart works. This is simple template populated with some sample products and cateogries.

Requirements: Apache, PHP 5+ and MySQL
Demo: http://www.opencart.com/demonstration
(Username: demo / Password: demo)
License: GPL License

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Another development kit from Bartelme Design. it’s basically a Photoshop file ready to use, adapt and reinterpret for creating beautiful buttons. It is really nice and useful as usual. Those buttons can be used on both personal and commercial websites etc. Enjoy.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.bartelme.at/journal/archive/button_devkit
License: License Free

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WebAppers always try our best to give some good stuff to our readers. Despite of the success of the icons give away, we are going to give away something really nice again. This time, SlideShowPro.net is very kind to give away one set of SlideShowPro and SlideShowPro Director for FREE to one of our lucky reader . I think you guys are very familiar with SildeShowPro which I think it is an amazingly beautiful photo gallery.

What is SlideShowPro
SlideShowPro is an ActionScript 2.0 component for Flash MX 2004, Flash 8 and Flash CS3 for publishing photo and video slideshows ready to deploy on any web site. Simply add to a FLA document, resize to any dimension, and style however you please. With over 60 customizable parameters to control color, layout, and behavior, the variety of configurations are virtually endless.

What is SlideShowPro Director
As a complement to SlideShowPro, SlideShowPro Director is a content management system built from the ground up to serve all of SlideShowPro’s needs. Simply upload your original imagery, link SlideShowPro to an album or gallery, and Director takes care of the rest through its non-destructive “on-demand publishing system” which formats photos on-the-fly to fit one or more slideshows created with SlideShowPro. Please make sure you met this software requirements before participating the contest.

How to Enter
SlideShowPro consistently earns praise from design studios, professional photographers, and those who simply need an attractive, easy to use photo gallery on their web site. Would you like one set of SlideShowPro + SlideShowPro Director? You will have a chance to get one if you can just finish the following sentence by leaving a comment.

” I like SlideShowPro because… “

One winner will be chosen at random. The contest will be ended on 29th Oct. Thank you for all of your support.

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