If you’re building a multi-language website or app, you probably use language files. When you change content in one language file, you need to remember to update the other language files. Even with source control, this can get messy pretty quickly if you have many languages, many translators or a large site.
String was built to keep things organized. It can manage your language files – from PHP to PO to Rails to iPhone apps. Import and export easily. You can now easily add languages and sections to your site. You can also invite users and control permissions. String is free, with no project limits. Invite as many users as you like. You’re free to extract all your data and close your project at any time.
Requirements: –
Demo: http://mygengo.com/string/
License: License Free
Each language, and the countries that speak that language, have different expectations when it comes to how numbers (including currency and percentages) and dates should appear.
Obviously, each language has different names for the days of the week and the months of the year. But they also have different expectations to the structure of dates, such what order the day, month and year are in. In number formatting, not only does the character used to deliniate number groupings and the decimal portion, but the placement of those characters differ.
A user using an application should be able to read and write dates and numbers in the format they are accustomed to. The jQuery Globalization plugin makes this possible, providing an API to convert user-entered numbers and dates in their own format into real numbers and dates, and conversely, to format numbers and dates into that format.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/06/10/jquery-globalization…
License: License Free
Fedena is an open source school/campus management system developed by people like you! It is a one stop solution for all school management related issues and helps you manage student databases and all other activities online.
Fedena is the ideal solution for schools and universities that want an easy means to manage all campus records. If you are a school/campus administrator, contact them and they will set up a free account for your institution. Fedena is an open source software, which means that you don’t have to pay anything to use the basic system.
Requirements: Ruby on Rails
Demo: http://www.fedena.com/tour.html
License: Apache License
The Open Graph protocol enables you to integrate your web pages into the social graph. It is currently designed for web pages representing profiles of real-world things — things like movies, sports teams, celebrities, and restaurants.
Once your pages become objects in the graph, users can establish connections to your pages as they do with Facebook Pages. Based on the structured data you provide via the Open Graph protocol, your pages show up richly across Facebook: in user profiles, within search results and in News Feed.
Requirements: –
Demo: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph
License: License Free
Pusher is a realtime service that complements your existing server architecture, which allows your users to collaborate in realtime. It Adds live status updates and messages. And it lets you broadcast events to everyone viewing a page.
When there is an activity that you want several users to know about, your server makes a simple REST call to the Pusher API passing a JSON payload of data. This message is modelled on Javascript event triggering. The event is relayed to the relevant browsers on the specified channel. Javascript code bound to the specified event informs the connected users of the activity.
However, they are currently limiting signups to Pusher. This is so that they can monitor usage of the system and make some tweaks without breaking things for everyone.
Requirements: –
Demo: http://pusherapp.com/demos
License: License Free
JS.Class is a library designed to facilitate object-oriented development in JavaScript. It implements Ruby’s core object, module and class system and some of its metaprogramming facilities, giving you a powerful base to build well-structured OO programs.
JS.Class is designed to make JavaScript behave like Ruby in terms of its OOP structures. It provides Classes and modules with Ruby-compatible inheritance, Subclassing and mixins, Singleton methods and eigenclasses, Method binding, Ports of various standard Ruby modules, including Enumerable, Hash, Set, Observable, Comparable, Forwardable.
Requirements: –
Demo: http://jsclass.jcoglan.com/
License: MIT License
Template Inheritance is an extremely useful technique for making reusable HTML layouts for a site. It is much more flexible than alternative techniques, such as “including†common elements of a page (like a header and footer file).
The concept has been around for a while, most notably in the Django template engine. Unlike other libraries, PHP Template Inheritance lets you write everything in straight PHP. There is no need to learn another template language.
It involves two separate templates, each in their own file: the parent template and the child template. The parent contains the HTML skeleton and markers for where content should go. These markers are calledblocks. The child then “fills-in†the blocks with content.
Requirements: PHP Framework
Demo: http://phpti.com/
License: MIT License
gameQuery is a jQuery plug-in to help make javascript game development easier by adding some simple game-related classes. gameQuery has the following features: multi layer-sprite animations, sprite hierarchies, collision detection, swappable sound support, periodic callbacks and keyboard state polling.
Javascript games are still in their infancy but but there is many reason why they are more than a curiosity: Modern borwser provide very good javascript engine and impovement keeps comming. Then to develope javascript games you don’t need an expensive proprietray IDE, widly available, free, open source software are there wating for you! Sometimes Flash is not available in some platform, even very recent ones (Wii, iPhone …).
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://gamequery.onaluf.org/demos.php
License: MIT License
Building with progressive enhancement is essential to ensuring a usable experience for all. But how do you determine which browsers should receive the enhanced experience and which should stick with the basic experience?
Introducing EnhanceJS, a JavaScript framework designed specifically to deliver a usable experience to the widest possible audience, by testing the browser to determine whether it is capable of correctly supporting a range of essential CSS and JavaScript properties, and delivering features only to those that pass the test.
Filament Group is releasing EnhanceJS as an open source (MIT license) project to allow everyone to start building sites with test-driven progressive enhancement. They explained how to use EnhanceJS in your own projects so you can take advantage of new CSS and JavaScript features while ensuring a usable experience to all.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/introducing_enhancejs…
License: MIT License
Symfony 2.0 has a preview release now available online. It leads a new generation of PHP frameworks. Based on an innovative architecture, Symfony 2 is fast, flexible, and easy to learn. It allows developers to build better and easy to maintain websites with PHP.
Symfony 2.0 is up to 3 times faster than symfony 1.4 or Zend Framework 1.10 and consumes half the memory. Symfony 2.0 provides tools that greatly enhance the productivity of developers, like the famous web debug toolbar, native support for environments, detailed error pages, and more. It also comes out of the box with all the features you need to develop modern web applications. It also provides built-in security and promotes web development best practices.
It is released under the MIT license, you are free to do whatever you want with Symfony, even in a commercial environment. However, Symfony 2.0 is not yet ready for production. The final release is planned for late 2010 and will only supports PHP 5.3.2.
Requirements: –
Demo: http://symfony-reloaded.org/
License: MIT License
