GitHub is a web-based hosting service for software development projects that use the Git revision control system. GitHub is the best way to collaborate with others. Fork, send pull requests and manage all your public and private git repositories.
Have you ever you can have GitHub-like system on your own server? GitLab is a lite app for projects or repositories hosting on your server. It is Fast, secure and stable solution based on ruby on rails. And it is free for download and distributed under the MIT License.
Requirements: Ruby on Rails
Demo: http://gitlabhq.com/
License: MIT License
Tutorialzine has written a great tutorial: Create an iOS-like Home Screen using CoffeeScript. CoffeeScript is a neat programming language meant to enhance the good parts of JavaScript, while working around the not so good. It makes OOP easy and introduces a number of useful additions such as comprehensions, new syntax for functions and scope handling, along with numerous small improvements.
But don’t fall pray to the hype surrounding it just yet – CoffeeScript isn’t going to replace JavaScript any time soon, as it sacrifices some of the agility that JS provides in attempt to make development easier. The CS way might not be the best fit for your project.
Requirements: CoffeeScript
Demo: http://demo.tutorialzine.com/2011/10/ios-homescreen…
License: License Free
List.js is a 7 KB cross-browser native JavaScript that makes your plain HTML lists super flexible, searchable, sortable and filterable.
You can add, edit and remove items by dead simple templating. You can also write your own filter functions easily. List.js is free for download and released under MIT License.
Requirements: Javascript enabled
Demo: http://listjs.com/
License: MIT License
Tangle is a JavaScript library for creating reactive documents. Your readers can interactively explore possibilities, play with parameters, and see the document update immediately. It is a lightweight library that provides a simple API for tangling up the values in your document. Tangle.js has no dependencies, and works with any JavaScript framework, or none at all.
TangleKit is an optional collection of UI components that let your readers adjust values and visualize the results. You can grab whichever components you want, use them, extend them, modify them, or just learn from them and make your own. TangleKit also includes (and depends on) a few helpful libraries, such as MooTools, sprintf, and BVTouchable.
Requirements: Javascript enabled
Demo: http://worrydream.com/Tangle/
License: MIT License
Have you ever thought of combine your Twitter, Digg, Facebook and Delicious counters into one single counter? The Share Counter can be fully customized by CSS. It loads pretty fast with only 2kb. It’s easy to use, you simply add or rename the classes of the link to be shared and the element that will hold the counts.
You may use the Share Counter in non-commercial and commercial projects. It may also be included in other software, themes and templates intended for sale or distribution.
Requirements: Javascript enabled
Demo: http://dandypixels.com/sharecount/
License: License Free
jQuery Timelinr is a simple plugin helps you to give more life to the boring timelines. It supports horizontal and vertical layouts, and you can specify parameters for most attributes: speed, transparency, auto-play and etc… You can also customize the style with CSS easily.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://www.csslab.cl/ejemplos/timelinr/latest/horizontal.html
License: License Free
Money.js is a JavaScript currency conversion library, with no dependencies, in just over 1 kb. It is designed to work seamlessly with data from the Open Source Exchange Rates API project, at the same time it can be set up to use any data source and base currency in just a few lines. And it works as a NodeJS/CJS and RequireJS/AMD module, too.
However, Money.js is currently alpha, and hasn’t had enough testing. Give it a week or two to hammer out any bugs, before using it in a production website/app.
Requirements: Javascript enabled
Demo: http://josscrowcroft.github.com/money.js/
License: License Free
Raven is a new Mac site-specific web browser that will help you be more productive. They created Raven with the belief that if a browser provided a more helping hand that web apps would not have to work as hard to mimic their desktop counterparts. Browsers could provide more ways for developers to leverage their functionality and do so safely.
Raven leverages a technique called site specific browsing to create a dedicated web browsing instance for each one of your favorite web apps. His history browser provides a clean, easy to read list of the pages you’ve visited with a preview pane. When you found something you want to read later simply bookmark it.
You can also simply start typing what you want and Raven scours your history, bookmarks and favorites. Not what you want? Simply hit return and it will search Google. Raven has selected Webkit, which the fastest, most secure and best HTML rendering engine on the planet. Web content should look as exactly as intended from browser-to-browser.
Requirements: Mac
Demo: http://raven.io/
License: License Free
The classic tree view, we all know it, it’s used everywhere and it definitely can be useful in the right context. However, most of them required JavaScript support. CSS Ninja has written a tutorial in order to teach us how to create a Pure CSS Collapsible Tree Menu.
Based on testing, this will work in any CSS3 selector supporting browser. It has been tested on Firefox 1+, Opera 9.6+, Safari 4+, iPhone/iPod Safari, Chrome 1+, Android and IE9+.
This technique will cater for a large amount of sub folders and files. It’s governed by your screen real estate and even then it’ll apply scroll bars to the document when the tree structure gets too long or wide.
You can also check out Fully Interactive jQuery File Tree, Javascript Treeview Component, and Treeview jQuery Plugin we have mentioned before.
Requirements: CSS3 selector supporting browser
Demo: http://www.thecssninja.com/css/css-tree-menu
License: License Free
Kendo UI framework is developed by Telerik, which is a leading provider of development and testing tools for web, desktop and mobile applications. Kendo is an HTML5, jQuery-based framework for building modern web apps.
The framework features more than 10 UI components, including a Grid and Chart, and all of the tools needed for a HTML5 app development, such as Data Binding, Templating, Drag-and-Drop API, and more. There’s no need to manually assemble a full framework for HTML app development; Kendo provides all the pieces, designed to seamlessly work together. It’s UI and much more.
Even though Kendo UI is built to leverage the power of new HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript technologies, it is also built for the realities of a world that does not universally support HTML5 today. In fact, Kendo helps developers adopt the latest in web standards faster by automatically handling the support for older browsers. It does for HTML5 application development what jQuery does for just JavaScript. Kendo UI also provides full support for mobile devices and touchscreen input.
Kendo UI is dual-licensed, Commercial and Open Source (GPLv3). The Commercial license includes full source, professional support, access to the latest Kendo UI hotfix builds, and priority influence on the Kendo UI roadmap.
Kendo UI is very easy to use, and it’s free for download as we mentioned. Why not give it a try and see if you like it or not? I am sure you will be impressed what Kendo UI can do for you.
