Last week, OnePoint Software was giving away 3 OnePoint Project 8 Professional licenses to WebResourcesDepot readers.

To remind: OnePoint Project is an amazing project management software which does not require you to compromise between ease-of-use and functionality and offers you both.

It integrates project planning, project controlling, monitoring and reporting into a single and easy to use project leadership solution providing you with all relevant information when and where you need it.

There were 112 comments to the post and thanks everyone for commenting and joining to the giveaway.

Here are the winners of this great project management application:

• Oliver (Oliver.T…..@….)
• Sebamueller
• Michael Susanto

Congratulations to the winners and keep following WebResourcesDepot for great resources + more giveaways.

Mindquarry is a brilliant open source application to organize teams in means of documents, ideas and tasks. Shortly, their collaboration.

This team collaboration application can be reached both from the browsers and from a desktop application.

Document Management

The strongest part of the application is document management.  It uses Subversion for document versioning and backup, supports file syncronization, collaborative editing and has notification system for the updates made within the documents.

Wiki

You can create wikis, assigns them to teams or tasks to manage the ideas and information. Updates made to the wiki content can be viewed within the activity timeline, pdf output can be generated and more.

Team Management

Teams are holding the user groups together. They can be assigned to tasks, have their own wikis and permission groups on documents, tasks..

Task Management

Mindquarry has a handy task management module where tasks can be created, assigned to users, priority levels and their status can be set.

To mention, this is not a project management module and does not have milestones, resources, costs or chart features. It simply allows users to assign and control tasks (for a chance to win a great project management software license check the OneProject Project 8 giveaway).

Conclusion

If you are working in teams, need to share and work on documents together I believe Mindquarry can be a perfect fit as you will be able to:

• Work on the same docs, have them versionned and backed up.
• Create your own information or idea libraries with the wiki feature.
• Assign tasks to each other.

Application requires Apache, Java and Subversion to be installed. Desktop application has Windows, Mac and Linux versions which makes everything much better.

Tip: Mindquarry has a XAMPP download in the downloads section that automatically installs Apache, Subversion and Perl to prepare the application environment.

Securimage is an free PHP captcha script used for protecting web forms from spam and abuse.

It can be easily installed and very well documented.

Different than the famous reCAPTCHA, which is web-based, Securimage is a downloadable solution that requires PHP and GD library to work.

Some feature of this captcha solution:

• Show an image in just 3 lines of code
• Validate submitted entries in less than 6 lines of code
• Customizable code length
• Choose the character set
• TTF font support
• Use custom GD fonts when TTF is not available
• Easily add background images
• Multi colored, angled, and transparent text options
• Arched lines through text
• Generates audible CAPTCHA files in wav format
• Use a word list for creating CAPTCHA codes

You can find a demo of the captcha here.

OnePoint Software is giving away 3 OnePoint Project 8 licenses (€399.00 value/each) to WebResourcesDepot readers. You can find the details for how to winning them below the post.

What is OnePoint Project?

OnePoint Project is an amazing project management software which does not require you to compromise between ease-of-use and functionality and offers you both.

Onepoint Project integrates project planning, project controlling, monitoring and reporting into a single and easy to use project leadership solution providing you with all relevant information when and where you need it.

Some nice features of the software:

• Work Breakdown Structure which helps you to focus to the project.
• An editable cost baseline.
• Milestone Trend Analysis (which tasks will be delayed and which won’t in unexpected circumstances).
• Project Pipeline (a summary of all your ongoing projects).
• Powerful document and link management.
• Colored GANTT chart to improve the view of your schedule.
• Planned & actual situation comparisons.
• Easy to access resource utilization.
• Tasks & comments.
• Project templates for creating faster "new projects" inside the software.

Onepoint’s different editions scale with your needs and the size any business. The version in the giveaway is the Professional version which is a desktop application for 1 user (perfect for a freelancer) that has Windows,Mac & Linux versions.

Other editions are:

• Network edition (for small teams up to 10 members - installable web-based)
• Enterprise edition (for medium to large sized companies - installable web-based)
• Check product editions for further details

How to win the OnePoint Project Professional licenses?

Just comment to this post with at least "I want the license!" text in the comment with your valid e-mails.

Winners will be picked randomly with the query below at 05.07.2008 (1 week later).

The query: SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=259 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' GROUP BY comment_author_email ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 3

Developers generally neglect JavaScript testing because there’s really nothing out there that let’s you simulate user interactions easily.  Here comes the Test plugin (Thanks to Brian Moschel from JavaScriptMVC for suggesting this resource).

It lets you simulate every major DOM event, as well as some combination events like Write and Drag, and then run functional and unit tests in a separate console window.

Test plugin saves serious development time with features like using sample data to simulating AJAX functionality, writing text or dragging an element.

Here is a sample test function:

test_check : function() {
    // simulate clicking the checkbox
    // params has the todo element
    var params = this.TodoCheckClick();
    // assert the color change occurs as expected
    this.assert_equal("#808080", params.element.parentNode.style.color);
},
test_uncheck : function() {
    // click the checkbox again to uncheck it
    var params = this.TodoCheckClick();
    // assert the color change goes away
    this.assert_equal(”, params.element.parentNode.style.color);
},

There are projects which I’m using Subversion and some that I don’t. There are also other things which are very valuable to me like bookmarks, code snippets & more.

And every designer, developer, for sure, lost a few days work because of not backing up the files regularly.

I have started using Mozy Online Backup Free version as a backup solution for my dev. files in general. It provides 2GB space for free, very easy to configure, can take scheduled backups and works silently.

It is an impressive product as it totally reduces the risk of losing data. And works both in Windows and Mac.

There are also other versions of Mozy:

• Mozy Free - 2GB - free - personal use
• Mozy Home - unlimited space ($4.95/month)
• Mozy Pro & Mozy Enterprise with more features like SQL or server backup

P.S. This post is an advertorial (and I really like the product ).

This is an exciting project which helps creating portable, hidden source coded, both online and offline PHP applications.

Roadsend PHP is an open source implementation of the PHP language.

It has a compiler that generates native binaries (no interpreter required) and all source files can be compiled in 1 executable file.

Using Roadsend Compiler, you can:

• Create online web applications with Fast/CGI
• Offline web applications with an embedded web server (MicroServer)
• Desktop GUI applications with PHP-GTK, and console applications.

Once the files are compiled with this PHP compiler, it is close to impossible to return back to the original code. This is a great feature for hiding the source code.

And for easier development & testing, Roadsend has a powerful built-in debugger.

E-mail marketing, when done professionally, has a serious return rate and measurable.

OpenEMM is a beautiful e-mail marketing (or newsletter management) application with business level capabilities. And best of all, it is open source.

Using this e-mail marketing tool, event and time triggered e-mails can be sent which is a great feature for smarter mailing lists.

Some other features of OpenEMM are:

• Set of pre-configured action forms and template
• Import and export workflows simplified by wizards
• Configuration of different users with different rights/roles
• Create mailing lists for groups of recipients
• Subscription to your mailing lists via confirmed opt-in, double opt-in or via e-mail
• Unsubscription with one click, optional with confirmation query and unsubscribe confirmation by e-mail
• Import and export wizards
• Separation of layout and content (like a content management system)
• Templates
• Detailed real-time statistics with graphical output
• Analysis of opening rate, click rate, unsubscriptions, bounces
• Comparison of multiple mailings based on key data

OpenEMM is mainly written in Java and Python and uses MySQL for storing data.

Snipplr is a website where you can store / share your code snippets and find the ones that are already shared by other users.

It is great to find real-world working code examples with an organized interface which saves a lot of time.

Snipplr covers almost every language from ASP, ASP.NET, PHP to Ruby, Django or AS3.

A feature I like is seeing the codes shared by a specific user (nice feature for following users whose coding style is much familiar to you).

Snipplr is absolutely a must-bookmark for a developer.

TYPOlight is one of the most attractive open source content management systems I have seen.

Built with PHP5, TYPOlight uses MySQL for storing the data. Besides the powerful features, this CMS application is very well documented and has an active users community.

As a feature spotlight, XHTML output, form generator and being able to manage multiple websites under 1 system are really nice.

Features of TYPOlight

• Live update feature
• Uses Ajax technology
• Intuitive user interface
• Accessible XHTML strict output
• Versioning and undo management
• Accessible administration area
• Front end output 100% template based
• Automatic e-mail encryption (spam protection)
• Powerful permission system (user management)
• Newsletter management
• Form generator
• Multi-language support (character set UTF-8)
• Generates search engine friendly URLs
• Web 2.0 support (e.g. lightbox)
• Advanced search and sorting options
• Multiple back end languages and back end themes
• Supports multiple websites in one tree
• Supports GZip compression
• Print articles as PDF