Slider scripts are one of the common objects of newspaper & portal websites. They are very useful as they help us present more content in a limited space.

YCodaSlider 2.0 is a slider script, inspired from Panic - Coda, and based on the Coda Slider of Niall Doherty.

This script helps you present your content with a tabbed menu + previous-next buttons to switch between tabs.

YCodaSlider 2.0 requires jQuery to run and you can use any type of content inside the slider like HTML, Flash, webpages etc.

It can be configured easily to use different effects while changing the content.

Google released the Google Maps API for Flash which lets Flex and Flash developers embed Google Maps in Flash applications.

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The API is smooth and fast. Flash graphics can be used for each tile layer, marker and info window. This opens up possibilities like dynamic shading, shadowing, animation, and video. When the user zooms the map, magnification changes happen smoothly and place names fade in.

Intervals, a solid web-based time tracking and task management service with powerful reporting features, is giving away  2 "Not So Basic" annual plan accounts ($600 value / each) to WebResourcesDepot readers.

Information about how to get the chance to win the accounts can be found at the bottom of this post.

What is Intervals?

Whether you are billing your customers hourly or not, you need to find out & analyze where your (or your team’s) valuable time is being spent to produce much more effectively.

Intervals is a complete solution to this problem. You can manage projects, tasks and track the time for every task & project. It has a built-in invoicing system, ability to reach detailed work histories, real-time vs actual budget reports & more.

Time Tracking

Use the web based timer, add time manually, track time on every task you do, or track general time. Time is money, and you need to know where it goes. If you are losing time, it can kill your margins.

Task Management And Workflow

Intervals has a flexible task management system. Tasks include document uploads, document versioning, notes and comments, due dates, task status, and daily email reminders about what is due.

Project Management 

The project management part is very easy to use as it hits the sweet spot between so simple it doesn’t do enough and so complicated no one will use it.

Document / File Storage

Add any type of files to the tasks or projects. Plus, Intervals versions your files so you can track iterations over time. Don’t like the latest evolution? Just revert to a previous document with one click.

Invoicing

For those businesses that rely on accurate time tracking and billing, the process is streamlined.

If you don’t bill based on actual work performed, you can create a freestyle invoice and roll it however you like it.

Conclusion

Intervals is specially ideal for small businesses; including designers, web shops, consultants, IT services firms, and communications companies that bill on an hourly or project basis.

If you are looking for a web-based solution that will keep your work-day organized, let you know the status of the projects that your team is working on with instant snapshots of user & task activities + provide you invoicing features, click here to check out Intervals (you can also create a 30 day trial account to test the system).

How to win the free accounts?

It is enough that you comment to this post with at least "I want a free account" text in the comment (detailed comments are always appreciated but does not effect the chance to win ).

Winners will be picked with the query below randomly on 05.22.2008 (1 week later).

The query: SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=291 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' GROUP BY comment_author_email ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 2

Visifire is a set of open source Microsoft Silverlight chart components.

Visifire lets you create stunning charts with ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, Ruby on Rails or just simple HTML in minutes.

In order to use this great Silverlight chart library, you don’t need to know anything about Silverlight. Simple HTML knowledge is enough.

To see how beautiful the results are, check the Chart Gallery or Chart Designer.

tablesorter is a jQuery plugin for turning a standard HTML table with THEAD and TBODY tags into a sortable table without page refreshes.

tablesorter can successfully parse and sort many types of data including linked data in a cell.

Using tableSorter, you can have custom headers, sorting classes and row striping features.

How to use tableSorter?

The simplest usage is like below for a div with id value equals "simple":

<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
    $(#simple).tableSorter();
});
</script>

Some features of tablesorter:

• Multi-column sorting
• Parsers for sorting text, URIs, integers, currency, floats, IP addresses, dates (ISO, long and short formats), time.
• Support for ROWSPAN and COLSPAN on TH elements
• Support secondary "hidden" sorting (e.g., maintain alphabetical sort when sorting on other criteria)
• Extensibility via widget system
• Cross-browser: IE 6.0+, FF 2+, Safari 2.0+, Opera 9.0+
• Small code size

File Thingie is a PHP file manager which works as a web based file manager.

Using this file manager is very handy when FTP is not available or practical to use. Plus, having multiple users and user groups is nice if you want other users to reach some folders that you want.

This 1 file PHP file manager has lots of features like:

• Upload multiple files at once
• Multiple users and user groups
• Create subdirectories
• Rename, move, delete and copy files and folders
• Search for file and folder names
• Control access to files based on black- or whitelists
• Edit text files
• Unzip files without downloading
• Easy customization of the CSS based layout

Tabbed content areas are a popular solution for the "lots of content - few space" problem.

Nettuts, a great tutorial website about web design & development has a nice example of creating a tabbed content area with jQuery & CSS.

When clicked to the tabs, content area switches to the new content with a slick accordion type effect.

Besides getting the ready to use codes from the tutorial, you can see how every step of the project is completed.

Here is the final demo of this tabbed content area.

Aflax is a library that enables developers to use JavaScript to fully utilize all of the features of Adobe’s Flash runtime including graphics, networking, video and camera support.

Flash JavaScript gateway that was released by Macromedia was only for Flash 7 or earlier and was a very low performance library as well. Aflax uses Flash 8’s new ExternalInterface which is much faster and more capable.

As a conclusion, using Aflax, you can create media players, animated charts, graphics & more with Flash without writing any ActionScript.

John Resig (the creator of jQuery) has created a pure JavaScript HTML parser that can definitely be very handy.

As more HTML code is inserted and formatted inside JavaScript tags, this parser can save serious development time with automating the process.

Some examples:

• Unclosed Tags: HTMLtoXML("<p><b>Hello") == '<p><b>Hello</b></p>'
• Empty Elements: HTMLtoXML("<img src=test.jpg>") == '<img src="test.jpg"/>'
• Attributes Without Values: HTMLtoXML("<input disabled>") == '<input disabled="disabled"/>'

HTML is a language with lots of tricks and the parser may fail in some cases but it will work in most of them and will become better by time for sure.

Document management & versioning is vital when reaching data quickly, specially, in multi-user environments.

OpenKM is a Web 2.0 style, multiplatform, open source, Ajaxed document management application which is built with usability in mind.

Thanks to its elegant and intuitive interface, OpenKM transforms complex operations into easy tasks. It allows the storage, classification and use of all kind of files and documents within an user friendly framework.

One of the more relevant functions to mention is the indexing of the most common types of files: text, Office, Office 2007, OpenOffice, PDF, HTML, XML, MP3, JPEG, etc. Its powerful search motor indexes all documents making it easy to find any information.

Some features of OpenKM

• Drag and drop
• Document control version
• Search by content and metadata
• LDAP or DBMS integration
• Public API by Webservices
• Store on any DBMS
• More than 8 languages