12
Feb
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PhotoShow is a free and open source PHP application for creating and managing a web gallery.
The application works without a database and uses the folder structure for creating the hierarchy of the galleries (supports unlimited sub-galleries).

Images can be added either from the admin panel via a drag 'n' drop uploader or directly from the filesystem. Organizing the folders/images, editing and deleting them are also accomplished with the same methods.
There is support for multiple users and groups where each can have different permissions.
PhotoShow can auto-generate thumbnails of images, display the EXIF data and allows others to comment them.
Requirements: PHP 5+
10
Feb
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Tooltips are tiny user interface elements which are very useful in displaying information "on request" without breaking the attention/focus.
WRD had previously featured qTip and it now has a new version, qTip2, with lots of improvements and new, exciting features.

The plugin can display the tooltip in any position wanted, plays nicely with image maps and they can be set to follow any element (handy for drag 'n' dropped and animated items) or mouse.
Tooltips can be styled completely, there is an optional Themeroller support and they can even be displayed as modal windows.
It has built-in Ajax integration and can load any remote data. qTip2's website has lots of creative demos including 3rd part service and various popular plugin integrations.
P.S. The download package can be customized to şnclude only the features needed and a converter exists for upgrading from the 1st version.
Requirements: jQuery
Compatibility: All Major Browsers
31
Jan
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ChiliProject is an open source project management application that helps tracking many aspects of a process.
It is built with Ruby on Rails on top of the popular Redmine (was shared at WRD) by the long-standing community members/contributors of it and follows a different roadmap.
The application has features for project and milestone planning (roadmap), ticket-based issue tracking, document management (including version control -Subversion or Git- for software projects) and time tracking to calculate costs.

ChiliProject notifies team members about the activities via e-mail and further notifications exist by simply subscribing to a project's activity feed.
In order to document the details/knowledge, there is a built-in wiki. Also, a forum exists for discussions with users other than the team members.
Requirements: Ruby on Rails and MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite
27
Jan
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PHP Bug Lost is a free and open source script for debugging and monitoring PHP code.
It is a one-file-script, works by inserting a function inside web pages and displays the information in a console window right over the web page.

The script can present custom logs, SQL queries, variables, Ajax queries and measure loading times + CPU/memory usage.
PHP Bug Lost is not only built to be used in the development environment but it can also be set to auto-send e-mails when any of the monitored data is over or below the expected values.
6
Jan
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Info: The demos of the resource don't work as the source video files are unavailable.
Acorn Media Player is a jQuery plugin for creating a customizable HTML5 media player with support for accessibility.
The player can be completely controlled with keyboard (with standard tab-based navigation), has screen-reader support + accessible themes and various other accessibility tweaks.
There is also support for closed captions and a dynamic transcript generated from the selected captions is provided.

Acorn Media Player can be themed with ease, can display videos in fullscreen, informs users on loading processes with loading + buffering indicators and can even remember the volume level used with HTML5 localStorage.
The sliders (seek and volume) can either use jQuery UI's widgets or a custom one is provided as well and few other options exist (like the direction of the volume slider) for further customization.
Requirements: jQuery
1
Jan
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JSGL is a JavaScript graphics library for drawing and moving vector shapes with ease.
The library enables us to create and transform objects (using SVG/VML) dynamically.
There are built-in elements like line, circle, ellipse, polygon, etc. and support for stroking and/or filling them with many customization options.
Demos provided (PathFinder and NeuralNet) give us a strong opinion on the capabilities of the library.

Requirements: No Requirements
Compatibility: All Major Browsers
28
Dec
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Swipe JS is a lightweight (3.7kb minified) mobile slider with 1:1 touch movement (sliding content based on exact touch position).
It can display any HTML content and offers a native-like experience with features like:
- resistant bounds (increased resistance to slide when there are no items to display next or before)
- smart resizing on rotation as the slider resets to make sure the sliding elements are sized right
- the size of each slide is set with the width of the container which is useful for passing different widths on responsive designs
- detecting if you’re trying to scroll down the page or slide the content left to right

Swipe is a standalone slider which doesn't rely on any JavaScript library and has few configuration options like:
- the slide to be displayed on initial load
- speed of transitions
- auto slideshow to be on/off
- and callback fired after successfully displaying a slide
Also, it has API methods for custom interactions including the display of prev-next items and getting the current position.
Requirements: No Requirements
Compatibility: All Modern Touch-Enabled Devices
23
Dec
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You'll remember JSMad, a pure JavaScript MP3 decoder (which was previously featured at WRD).
It came with ID3 support, works perfect in Firefox and requires "enabling Web Audio API" in Chrome.
The developers of JSMad have recently released a similar resource named ALAC.js.
It is also JavaScript library but for decoding/playing ALAC files (that are supported on iPhone, iPad, most iPods, Mac and iTunes).
Although HTML5 audio is the most compatible way to play audio in iOS devices, ALAC.js can be an alternative.
P.S. it is a port of the recently open sourced Apple Lossless decoder.

21
Dec
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Textualizer is a lightweight (4kb minified) jQuery plugin for creating good looking effects on text.
The plugin accepts any number of sentences (or words) and can rotate them smartly and beautifully.

Once a sentence is about to rotate with the other one, the letters that will be re-used are kept and move to their new locations with several effects to choose from (fadeIn, slideLeft, slideTop).
It is possible to define the duration that each item will be displayed and also the duration of the transitions. Also, functions exist to stop or pause the rotation.
Requirements: jQuery
Compatibility: All Major Browsers
14
Dec
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Working with images and resizing or cropping them can sometimes be challenging as there is always a math going on behind: the ratios, resizing with the width or height, x-y values for cropping, etc.
phpThumb is a PHP library that handles all the hard work on creating thumbnails with only few lines of code.
It accepts any source types for images (from the filesystem, URL or database) and all popular image formats.

Images can be rotated, cropped, watermarked, their quality can be defined and there is even a built-in caching to minimize the server load.
phpThumb also has a wide collection of filters including contrast, blur, brightness, applying rounded corners and more.
Requirements: PHP 4.0.6+ and GD library