Few days ago, Adobe has launched the Flash Player 11 which is a milestone for the product as the new Stage3D API that allows up to 1,000 times faster rendering compared to Flash Player 10.
It focuses on the 3D content and the widely-used 2D content won't be getting the advantages of this new feature.
Starling Framework, a pure ActionScript 3 library, aims to fill this gap by rendering all content through GPU.
The framework has a familiar API which makes it very easy to use for Flash developers. Even the live-Flash-websites can be improved with it just by exchanging the native Flash classes with their Starling equivalents.
Cryptico.js is an easy-to-use JavaScript library for encrypting text on the client-side.
It has support for RSA + AES methods and the text can be encrypted with any given bit length (228, 1024, etc.).
The content is encrypted with a public key and it can only be decrypted with that key (which makes sense if the recipient already has that information).
Cryptico.js doesn't require any JS frameworks to function and it is well-documented.
Requirements: No Requirements
Bricolage is an open-source and enterprise-class content management system that makes creating, managing and publishing content very easy.
It is built with Perl, uses MySQL or PostgreSQL for storing data and has a powerful templating system (Mason, Template Toolkit, or PHP).
With the help of this templating system and the flexibility offered on every step, it is possible to build any type of websites.
Bricolage has a group and permission based user management system that eases working as a team where some users can be editors, others being designers, etc.
Besides many other standard CMS features, there is a very handy and built-in alert system which can be setup for many events like an article going online, being edited, etc. to get notified instantly.
Also, there is a well-documented API which enables you to pull and push any type of data from the system.
Requirements: Perl 5.8.0+ and PostgreSQL or MySQ
ChocolateChip-UI is a mobile web app development framework that targets WebKit engines..
The framework provides fully functional widgets and controls right out of the box which know how to behave so you can focus only on providing the data.
A new concept is introduced by the framework: WAML (Web App Markup Language) which is designed for creating mobile web apps and uses special tags + attributes to clearly define all the parts (rather than divs and spans) for a faster development.
ChocolateChip-UI has most of the elements we get used from iOS like the buttons, tab bar, lists, slider and more.
The framework is very well-documented, provides snippets for the basics and definitely a must-bookmark for mobile web app development.
Requirements: No Requirements
Compatibility: WebKit Browsers
PhantomJS is a command-line tool that acts like a WebKit browser without any interface.
It has a fast and native support for various web standards:DOM handling, CSS selector, JSON, Canvas, and SVG.
The tool can be totally scripted via JavaScript and is a handy solution for many things like:
- automated testing of web apps
- site scraping
- capturing pages
- PDF converting
- and much more..
Also, it can work on Windows, Mac + Linux environments (and, the next version is expected to support CoffeeScript).
Requirements: No Requirements
Compatibility: Windows, Mac & Linux
Wink Toolkit is a JavaScript framework for creating mobile web applications with less-hassle.
It comes in multiple parts where the "core" (which includes HTTP requests utilities, event management system or DOM extensions) is a must to use and every other feature is optional.
Such a structure helps keeping the filesize minimum which is pretty important when it is mobile.
The UI widgets of the framework is very rich and consists of 3D wall, accordion, sliding panels, flip page, coverflow, progress bar and much more.
There are also libraries for a slick user experience with drag 'n' drop, gesture recognizer or browser history.
Wink Toolkit is a project of Dojo Foundation and also expected to be a part of the Dojo Mobile.
Requirements: No Requirements
Compatibility: iPhone, iPad & Android
Streamie is a web-based, totally real-time and open source Twitter client which makes use of the latest web standards such as HTML5 and CSS3.
It has different menus for displaying mentions, direct messages, favorites or retweets. And, as expected, you can send tweets easily.
A number of options help customizing the application like message filtering, display settings and enabling geolocation.
The application is fully Ajaxed + uses nodeJS, less.js, require.js and Socket.IO which can be a good way of getting experienced in these "getting popular" resources.
Requirements: nodeJS
Compatibility: All Major Browsers
SSHMeIn is a totally Ajaxed and open source web application that helps managing remote Unix servers behind firewalls.
Once a SSH tunnel is opened within the server, the application can control it easily.
If you are managing multiple servers, they can be organized in groups for easier access.
It has an increased security via unique keys for each computer, date-time of the last verification can be viewed.
There is also a web service which allows indication to a remote computer to open the configured tunnel according to the parameters provided.
Simply, SSHMeIn is a very handy application if you have your own .nix servers.
Requirements: PHP, MySQL
Compatibility: UNIX servers
There are many database editors with advanced features, but sometimes, a smaller and simpler tool is all we need.
DBKiss is a MySQL and PostgreSQL manager application that is only a single PHP file.
It has most of the features you can ask for including:
- import/export of data
- searching of the whole database or single tables
- an advanced SQL editor
- saving of templates
- multi-query execution with pagination
Also, it is compatible with MySQL versions 3.23 through 5.x and PHP 4 or 5.
Simply, it is a must-have for every developer, specially for the ones who need to work with different databases from time-to-time and need a quick solution.
Requirements: PHP 4+
Pimcore is a feature-rich and robust PHP content management system, that is built with Zend Framework, for creating and managing digital content + assets.
The interface is powered with ExtJS and almost all editing is done via drag 'n' drops.
It is possible to work on multiple documents at the same time with the help of the multi-tabbed usage.
Pimcore is also a product information management framework (PIM) which means true multi-channel publishing and integration into ecommerce systems like Magento and OXID eSales.
The application is powerful on controlling digital assets as well. It can be integrated to the desktop using WebDAV or to the 3rd party systems via web services.
For images, it can analyze them automatically (EXIF data), create thumbnails and enable you to edit them (rotate, crop, etc.).
If the assets are documents, it offers web-previews using a Scribd account. And a similar preview works for videos using Youtube.
Pimcore has many other advanced features like versioning, built-in caching, permission-based user management, multilingual interface and much more.
Requirements: PHP 5.3+, MySQL 5+, *nix system
