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MooCrop – A Mootools Image Cropping utility

July 18, 2008 No Comments

MooCrop is an Image Cropping utility using the amazingly powerful Mootools Javascript framework. Alone it serves no practical purpose but used in conjunction with a server side script becomes a powerful image manipulation tool.

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Magento – Powerful Open Source E-Commerce Software

July 17, 2008 2 Comments

Magento is the open-source eCommerce solution that promises to revolutionize the industry. It’s modular architecture and unprecedented flexibility means your business is no longer constrained by your eCommerce platform. Magento is total control.

It provide the scalability, flexibility and features for business growth. Magento provides feature-rich eCommerce platforms that offer merchants complete flexibility and control over the presentation, content, and functionality of their online channel.

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jobberBase – Free Job Board Software

July 16, 2008 No Comments

jobberBase is a Free Job Board Software based on the popular Romanian Job Board Jobber. It’s open source which is great for creating a single-industry job board, offers support through forums and has over 60k downloads so far.

Features

  • job posting without account
  • powerful job searching;
  • apply to interesting jobs;
  • administration panel;
  • RSS feeds;
  • javascript badge/widget;
  • homepage-featured jobs management;
  • locations management;
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A configurable, AJAX file browser plugin for jQuery

July 15, 2008 1 Comment

jQuery File Tree is a configurable, AJAX file browser plugin for jQuery. You can create a customized, fully-interactive file tree with as little as one line of JavaScript code.

Currently, server-side connector scripts are available for PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, and Lasso. If you’re a developer, you can easily make your own connector to work with your language of choice.

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Alt Image Attribute Usage – Hear It From Google

July 13, 2008 No Comments

Dont’ forget your alt tags! Not only does it provide valid XHTML coding standards but, it adds another layer of keywords that can be added to your page to help improve your SEO efforts. Images used in websites that have keywords in the alt tags provide Google with information regarding what the image is if, they are used right.

Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s web spam team describes which ones are important in this video:

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Open Flash Chart

July 12, 2008 No Comments

Open Flash Chart, is open source and free to use! You can even get the source code to fiddle with! It was started an maintained by John Glazebrook who has generously kept this project open source. What I love most about this project, is the way it started. I think most projects started this way as well.

Here’s his story

“Yes. Once upon a time I had to deal with a company who sell flash charting components, their component had a bug that I needed fixing, so I emailed them about it asking when it’d be fixed. (Remember that I had paid real money for this software.) They were so incompetent, rude and obnoxious that after three or four weeks of emails I thought to myself “I could learn Flash and Actionscript and write my own charting component, release it as Open Source, host it on sourceforge and build up a community of helpful coders faster than they can fix a single bug.” And that is what I did. And that is why it is free. I guess the moral of the lesson is: don’t piss off your customers.”

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Animated Progress Bars Using MooTools

July 11, 2008 No Comments

MooTools progress bar class is highly customizable MooTools class that animates to the desired percentage.

All you need to do is create an instance of the dwProgressBar and pass your desired options. It’s quick and easy. To move the progress bar, all you need to do is call the “set()” method, passing it the desired percentage.

Practical Uses

You could use this progress bar for:

  • An image preloading script
  • Form completion tracking
  • Internal goal tracking applications
  • Anything you want!
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AlivePDF – ActionScript 3 Open-Source PDF Library

July 11, 2008 No Comments

AlivePDF is an open-source ActionScript 3 (Flash, Flex, AIR) PDF generation library. It allows you to generate PDF’s client-side.

While I haven’t used this tool, I have heard a great deal about it! Definitely worth a try if your looking to generate PDF’s in your Flash applications!

AlivePDF is licensed under the MIT License. In other words, you can do whatever you want with it.

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PSDFreeBee – Free PSD Graphics

July 11, 2008 2 Comments

PSDFreeBee is a great resource for free Photoshop logos, icons, layouts, patterns, buttons & more.

Update:

This website is no longer in service.

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Picnik – edit photos the easy way, in your browser

July 10, 2008 No Comments

Picnik is photo editing online, in your browser. It gives real people photo editing superpowers. It’s fast, easy, and offers tons of powerful tools, artistic effects, stickers, frames, touch-ups, scrapbooking tools and more. And that’s all for free. There’s even more available for Picnik Premium members: More tools, advanced effects, seasonal content all year long and more! Picnik launched in September 2007 and in the past few years has amassed millions of happy fans on the site, through Facebook, embedded in Flickr, Picasa, Yahoo! Mail, and dozens of our other API partners.

Features

  • Fix your photos in just one click
  • Use advanced controls to fine-tune your results
  • Crop, resize, and rotate in real-time
  • Tons of special effects, from artsy to fun
  • Astoundingly fast, right in your browser
  • Awesome fonts and top-quality type tool
  • Basketfuls of shapes from hand-picked designers
  • Works on Mac, Windows, and Linux
  • No download required, nothing to install
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Hello, my name is Richard Castera. I have more than 12 years of experience architecting, implementing, leading and launching large scale, high performance software products in a fast-paced agile environment.

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