JFreeChart is a free 100% Java chart library that makes it easy for developers to display professional quality charts in their applications.The JFreeChart project was founded seven years ago, in February 2000, by David Gilbert. Today, JFreeChart is used by approximately 40,000 to 50,000 developers. JFreeChart’s extensive feature set includes:
- a consistent and well-documented API, supporting a wide range of chart types.
- a flexible design that is easy to extend, and targets both server-side and client-side applications.
- support for many output types, including Swing components, image files (including PNG and JPEG), and vector graphics file formats (including PDF, EPS and SVG).
- JFreeChart is “open source” or, more specifically, free software. It is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL), which permits use in proprietary applications.
Requirements: Java 2 platform (JDK version 1.3 or later)
Demo: http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/samples.html
License: LGPL License
We have been working on the WebAppers complete site redesign in the last few weeks. You might feel bored with the current design. So that we are trying to give WebAppers a unqiue and fresh look. The new design will be rolled out very soon. Please stay tuned.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
