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 OpenFaces is an open-source library of AJAX-powered JSF components, an Ajax framework and a client-side validation framework. OpenFaces is based on the set of JSF components formerly known as QuipuKit. It contains fully revised codebase of QuipuKit and introduces many new components and features. Link: http://www.openfaces.org/Labels: design, development, open source
 Yet Another (remote) Process Monitor (YAPM) is a powerful application that allows to view and manage your running tasks, processes, threads, modules, windows, handles, network connections and your services on a local or on a remote machine. YAPM offers lots of features to manipulate them, such as privilege management, memory management, a complete history of statistics, a dependency viewer... etc. Link: http://yaprocmon.sourceforge.net/Labels: open source, software, windows
1. Getting an eCommerce site in Wordpress running in 5 minutes - Using WP e-commerce you can setup a simple, but effective in some cases, ecommerce solution in Wordpress. If you have a blog and are looking to test the waters of selling some products than this plugin will get you going faster than any other solution. 2. How to Create an Online Store with Google Checkout in 5 Minutes - With the recent release of the Google Checkout store widget Google has made it easier to add Google Checkout into your website. This means you can get a Google based store up and running in minutes, or 5 minutes, as the title states. 3. VirtueMart for Joomla or Mamabo - I don't know too much about this shopping cart but at first look it definitely is an option I will consider for anyone running Joomla. The only downside I can see is that the resulting interface is *very* Joomla like and not the prettiest thing I have seen. Still it's an option. 4. Magento - An up and coming leader in the open-source, PHP based, full-features, shopping cart solution. A little tricky to install but the feature rich application makes it something worth the effort. Add to that all the great information on Magento that's around and you won't be left alone to struggle through it. warning: Read the Magento requirements as some hosts will not meet them.5. Paypal - Probably one of the most common names in payment gateways. PayPal's Website Payment Pro gives you a payment gateway and merchant account all-in-one. This makes it one of the easiest methods to take credit cards on your website. Labels: ecommerce, mysql, open source, php
 68KB is an open source PHP MySQL driven knowledge base script. Built with you in mind to make it easy to configure and setup. Link: http://68kb.com/Labels: development, open source, php
As smart and popular as Google may be, the success of Chrome OS is not a fait accompli. Sometimes the smartest and most popular kid at school simply falls on his face. Google Chrome OS could very well turn out to be that kid.
Will Chrome OS be the promising upstart that fails to thrive in the real world? It's much too early to tell, but here are five reasons that Chrome OS could fail Link: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/...Labels: google, open source
Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we're already talking to partners about the project, and we'll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve. Did you ever doubt that Google would someday release an Operating System? I didn't. Link: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/...Labels: google, open source
FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It includes libavcodec - the leading audio/video codec library. This is how websites setup tools for performing audio and video conversions. Want to have users upload video that is then converted to a Flash video? FFmpeg can handle it. Link: http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/index.htmlLabels: development, open source, php
Oracle Corporation is to buy Sun Microsystems for $9.50 a share in a deal valued at approximately $7.4 billion, just a few weeks after a deal by IBM to buy Sun fell apart. It looks like Oracle will pay a premium of $2.81 a share, or 42%, over Sun Micro’s closing price of $6.69 a share on Friday.
Oracle said the deal is valued at $5.6 billion excluding cash and debt. Oracle is calling Sun’s Java “the most important software” it has ever acquired. The deal, which is expected to close in the Summer and was unanimously approved by Sun’s board of directors, has massive implications for the future openness of Java and MySQL. What's going to happen to MySQL? Link: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/20/...Labels: database, mysql, open source
cloc counts blank lines, comment lines, and physical lines of source code in many programming languages. It is written entirely in Perl with no dependencies outside the standard distribution of Perl v5.6 and higher (code from some external modules is embedded within cloc) and so is quite portable. Works great for comparing two projects. Recently I went through a code refactor on a project and I needed to give some information back to the client. CLOC made it simple to give a report as to the before and after counts. The before was approx 240K lines of code and the after was about 81K with zero changes to functionality. Link: http://cloc.sourceforge.net/Labels: css, design, development, javascript, open source, php
 The first version of Technibbles Computer Repair Utility Kit was so popular, we’ve created a second version. For those of you who don’t know, the Computer Repair Utility Kit is a combination of computer repair tools in one easy to use pack. The Computer Repair Utility Kit allows you to run all of the repair tools from your portable drive (eg. USB Flash Drive, External Hard Drive, IPod etc.) and comes with an easy to use, right-click menu. A must in any computer technicians kit. Link: http://www.technibble.com/...Labels: open source, software
The administration area of a Web application is a favorite target of hackers and thus particularly well protected. The same goes for WordPress: when creating a blog, the system creates an administrative user with a perfectly secure password and blocks public access to the settings area with a log-in page. This is the cornerstone of its protection. Let’s dig deeper!
This article focuses on defending the administration area of WordPress, meaning all those pages in the wp-admin folder (or http://www.yourblog.com/wp-admin/) that are displayed after a user a verified. We bolded the phrase “after a user is verified” deliberately: it should be explicitly understood that only a simple query stands in the way of an evil hacker and the powerful admin area of your whole blog. The latter is only as strong as the passwords that are generated. Link: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/...Labels: blogging, open source, wordpress
bbPress is forum software with a twist from the creators of WordPress.
bbPress is focused on web standards, ease of use, ease of integration, and speed. We’re focused on keeping things as small and light as possible while still allowing for great add on features through our extensive plugin system. Link: http://bbpress.org/Labels: open source, wordpress
Then check out the large collection of PHP clones of popular websites. This is a great collection of some of the best clones around mixed in with some of the worst so make sure you read up before installing and going live. Link: http://www.scriptcopy.com/Labels: development, open source, php
Joomla is a popular free and open-source content management system (CMS) that can be used to power all kinds of websites. After we published developer’s toolboxes for a variety of other CMS’, many readers requested a collection of resources for Joomla users and developers, so here it is. Joomla grew out of the Mambo CMS and has since built a large and loyal group of users, much like the other popular open-source options. What this means for users and developers is that there is a wealth of information and resources available, and in this post we’ll take a look at many of the best. Link: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/...Labels: development, open source, php
The past couple of years have seen an explosion of open source programming languages and utilities that are geared toward children. Many of these efforts are based around the idea that, since the days of BASIC, programming environments have become far too complex for untrained minds to wrap themselves around. Some toolkits aim to create entirely new ways of envisioning and creating projects that appeal to younger minds, such as games and animations, while others aim to recreate the "basic"-ness of BASIC in a modern language and environment. Link: http://www.linux.com/feature/155203Labels: development, open source
 Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that's under active development. I still use Winamp as my music player but and getting closer to dropping it. It used to be a very good, low resource music player but has gotten bloated over the years. Songbird might be a good option, trying it now. Link: http://getsongbird.com/Labels: open source, software
 Following three years of continuous improvement, OpenOffice.org has now reached the landmark version 3.0, with a host of new features including native support for Mac OS X users. I have been pointing clients to OpenOffice for a long time now as its a great replacement for the bloated, and expensive, Office from Microsoft. New Features: http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.0/Download: http://download.openoffice.org/Labels: office, open source
 codebase brings together source control, issue/ticket management & deployment tracking. If you find yourself managing multiple software projects and need a central place to organise your code. Link: http://codebasehq.com/Labels: development, open source, software
 CodePlex is Microsoft's open source project hosting web site. Start a new project, join an existing one, or download software created by the community. As you would assume its a lot of projects written using MS technologies like ASP.NET. Link: Labels: microsoft, open source
DM2 provides Windows enhancements that helps in every-day work. This overview is a good starting point and a DM2 introduction since it covers the basics of all functionalities. Don't forget that all described DM2 functions are very configurable and may be set to match user personal needs - Minimize to floating icon
- Minimize to tray
- Hide window
- Align and resize
- Enhanced system menu
- Opacity and On-top flag
- Process priority
- Open/Save dialog favorites & recent
Link: http://dm2.sourceforge.net/overview.htmlLabels: open source, software, windows
We've always strived to be as open and transparent with our users as possible, and this is the next logical step. When we say 'open-source' we mean specifically that the code behind reddit is available to the public for download, and we're inviting the public to submit code to help improve the site. Get the code here: http://code.reddit.com/Labels: development, open source, php
For the DIY home automator, the most popular solution is the X10 network protocol. X10 is communications protocol and network address system not unlike the TCP/IP protocol that powers the internet. Using X10 and some Open-source software. Link: http://howto.wired.com/wiki/...Labels: hardware, open source, technology
Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Trac uses a minimalistic approach to web-based software project management. Our mission is to help developers write great software while staying out of the way. Trac should impose as little as possible on a team's established development process and policies. Link: http://trac.edgewall.org/Labels: development, open source
Among the advances in 5.1 are partitioning, events scheduling, row-based replication and disk-based clustering. They are fairly standard features already offered by rivals IBM, Oracle and Microsoft, but they should help MySQL compete in environments where performance and the ability to scale are critical.
"One thing we're really most proud of is, frankly, we fixed a lot of outstanding bugs in 5.0," Urlocker said. "So 5.1 has not only greater reliability, but a performance increase of 20 percent. It will be more in some cases and less in others, but there's a significant performance boost and scalability enhancements." Link: http://www.cio.com/article/333613/...Labels: database, development, open source
 Feature:- Post jobs without an account.
- Search for jobs.
- Apply to interesting jobs.
- RSS feeds.
- Site-widget to show jobs on other sites
Link: http://www.jobberbase.com/Labels: open source, php
 phplist is an open-source newsletter manager. phplist is free to download, install and use, and is easy to integrate with any website. Link: http://www.phplist.com/Labels: open source, php, website
 Will gOS become something huge in the OS market? Have you downloaded it and given it a try? I haven't had the chance yet but am interested in it and when I get some time will probably do so. I just wanted to do a quick post since its move a bit more forward with the Rocket Beta release. Link: http://www.thinkgos.comLabels: linux, open source
 Secret Maryo Chronicles is an Open Source two-dimensional platform game with a style designed similar to classic sidescroller games. If you like Super Mario Brothers then you will love this game. This game is amazingly well done and the game play is fun. Link: http://www.secretmaryo.org
Labels: games, open source
 Mantis is a free popular web-based bugtracking system. Link: http://www.mantisbt.org/Labels: open source, php
We're creating an OS ecosystem that is complete. We come with all the software you need to browse the web, email, instant message... play movies, music, and connect to iPods... create and edit documents, spreadsheets, presentations, databases, images... out of the box. Plug and play! What can you do with it? Turn Your Old PC into a Webapp Monster with gOS: http://.../turn-your-old-pc-into-a-webapp-monster-with-gosLink: http://thinkgos.comLabels: google, open source
OpenSourceCMS was created with one goal in mind. To give you the opportunity to "try out" some of the best php/mysql based free and open source software systems in the world. You are welcome to be the administrator of any CMS system here, allowing you to decide which system best suits your needs. What a great idea. A single centralized location to give some of the more popular open source PHP projects a test drive. Link: http://www.opensourcecms.com/Labels: mysql, open source, php
Poll:Easy-Poll.com let you quickly and easily add a poll to your website. They store the results and you manage the poll through your account with them. Although you lose some control over the poll having all information passed to them, this is a drop-dead easy solution for the non-developers out there. http://www.easy-poll.com Survey:LimeSurvey is probably the best open-source, PHP, survey script I have found. Its highly customizable and can handle most kinds of surveys you want to put up with ease. The down side, and there is always a down side, the admin area is kinda confusing and non-intuitive to use. Once you get past the admin area you will probably find that LimeSurvey works great. (oh and they have a very nicely designed website) http://www.limesurvey.org/List of more surveys: http://.../Onlinesurveys/software.htm#freesoftwareLabels: development, open source, php, website
 Frostwire is a spinoff of the Pro version of Limewire. Instead of downloading one of the free, open-source compiles of the pro version of Limewire, which I have heard is not legal to distribute, try Frostwire. Its clean, legal and looks just like Limewire. Frostwire, in simple terms, is a Peer-to-Peer application very much like Kazaa except clean. It allows you to connect with other users on the network to trade files (music and porn mainly). Features of Frostwire: - Completely Free & open-source
- Firewall-to-firewall transfers
- Turbo-Charged Download Speeds
- Absolutely NO Spyware or Adware
- Connects to more sources
- Creative Commons license support
- Max. speed network connections
- Junk Result Filters
- Community Chat Rooms
- iTunes Integration
- BitTorrent Support
- Proxy Support
Frostwire: http://www.frostwire.com/Labels: open source, software
 GIMP is well known as a powerful application, and especially in the last few years has gained a rather large community of users. There’s also a large group of people for whom GIMP would be their tool of choice, if it had the same kind of attention to user interface as Inkscape, GNOME, Firefox and other modern Open Source apps. Full Story: http://.../gimps-major-ui-revamp/Gimp: http://www.gimp.org/Labels: graphics, open source, software
Vixy.net makes it easy to convert a YouTube video, and all FLV video formats, to MPG4 / AVI / MOV / MP4 / MP3 / 3GP. This service allows you convert a Flash Video / FLV file (YouTube's videos,etc) to MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP) file online. It is using a compressed domain transcoder technology (outline in Japanese). It converts FLV to MPEG4 faster and less lossy than a typical transcoder. Want to setup your own Vixy.net? Then check out the Open Source project they have released. Link: http://vixy.net/Labels: multimedia, open source, videos
In fact, the open source model, which began with programmers, has been so successful that it is currently being applied in government, media, education and private business. But despite these new applications, the unique combination of the open source model with the universalism of web design remains one of the ideal applications of open source. This pervasiveness of the open source spirit in web design now means that you can use open source software to design both graphics and your CSS and HTML, and you can also use the dozens of reliable open source code resources or thousands of templates to base your own designs on. In this article we highlight 100 open source web design tools, resources, and templates.
Link: http://...100-tools-resources-and-template-sources/Labels: design, development, open source, website
Make Firefox full screen even better with Fullerscreen: "Fullerscreen is an extension that gives Web pages in Firefox the full run of your monitor. If you spend much time using Web-based applications like Gmail, Google Notebook, or Backpack, Fullerscreen is a must-have addition to Firefox.
Firefox already has a Full Screen feature, which you can access by going to View -> Full Screen, or by pressing F11. However, the standard Firefox full screen view still includes a location/toolbar and a tab bar, if you have any tabs open." Article: http://community.linux.com/...Direct to Addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4650Labels: firefox, open source
If you haven't seen any of the video of the 3D Desktops that are floating around, boy are you missing out. You have to check the videos out and see how amazing a 3D Desktop can be. Link: http://crave.cnet.com/...Labels: linux, open source, software, technology
TaskFreak is an open source task management application written in PHP. I like the simple and clean interface and may use this at some point in the future. Link: http://www.taskfreak.com/PHProjekt is an open source groupware suite. Basically its more of a complete project management solution. A little to busy for my liking and the interface design needs some work. This is one to check back on after a few more releases - just not ready for prime time yet. Link: http://www.phprojekt.com/...Labels: open source, php
 Open source has come a long way in the recent years to compete with commercial projects on most levels. If you want to see if there is an open source solution for a commercial product that you are drooling over but can't afford to purchase then check out Open Source as Alternative. I am always looking for great open source projects to blog about and this site has open my eyes to a few more - blog posts coming... Link: http://www.osalt.com/Labels: open source
 Knowledgebase Publisher just keeps getting better and the developer has given me a teaser of what's to come in the next version What's coming:- "Roles" tab in admin area (it will be for members)
- Any article could be private
- Any private article or category could be assigned to any role then only members with required role will be able to see that article(s)
- Articles will have meta keywords and meta description
- RSS feed on new articles (possibly coming in the next release)
Link: http://www.kbpublisher.comLabels: open source
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