In this month’s featured article, we take a look at more than 40 jQuery plugins that can spice up your website. Our list includes all kinds of plugins to help you enhance different aspects of your site, including form, navigation, media elements, and the overall user interface. The list also includes plugins to simplify working with effects and animations, drag and drop, AJAX, and overlays. Don’t forget to also visit our jQuery Plugins category which showcases over 200 items.

jQuery Form Plugins

Uniform Uniform is a popular jQuery plugin that applies a consistent skinning to your form elements across all browsers. It does this by masking your standard form controls with custom themed controls. It works in sync with your real form elements to ensure accessibility and compatibility.

Recurly.js Recurly.js is a Javascript library designed to be easily embedded and customized form elements to match your website. The library performs in-line validation, real-time total calculations, and gracefully handles errors.

Ajax AutoComplete for jQuery Ajax Autocomplete for jQuery allows you to easily create autocomplete/autosuggest boxes for text input fields. Built with focus on performance – results for every query are cached and pulled from local cache for the same repeating query.

Chosen Chosen is a JavaScript plugin that makes long, unwieldy select boxes much more user-friendly. It is currently available in both jQuery and Prototype flavors.

Validation Validation is a plugin that makes client-side form validation trivial by offering lots of option for customization. It comes bundled with a useful set of validation methods, including URL and email validation and also includes an API to write your own methods.

In-Field Labels In-Field Labels jQuery Plugin turns properly formatted HTML forms into forms with in-field label support. Labels fade when the field is focussed and disappear when text entry begins. Clearing a field and leaving brings back the label.

Power PWChecker Power PWChecker is simple jQuery plugin can be integrated seamlessly with any online form (sign up form/ user registration form) to check password strength and give users clues for creating strong and secure passwords.

Form Wizard The form wizard plugin is a jQuery plugin which can be used to create wizard like page flows for forms without having to reload the page in between wizard steps. The plugin is unobtrusive and gives the developer great freedom on how they set up the flow of the different steps in their wizards.

jQuery Typography Plugins

Lettering.js Lettering.js brings radical web typography to your content. It does so by wrapping your text with span tags, allowing you to target CSS rules to individual letters, words or sentences.

FitText FitText is a plugin that makes font-sizes flexible. Use this plugin on your fluid or responsive layout to achieve scalable headlines that fill the width of a parent element.

Airport Airport is a rather simple text effect plugin for Jquery. It emulates the style of those flickering information boards you sometimes find on airports and train stations.

SlabText SlabText is a jQuery plugin for producing big, bold and responsive headline. It does so by splitting your headline into rows and assigning different font-weight to each row.

jQuery Content Presentation Plugins

jQuery News Ticker jQuery News Ticker brings a lightweight and easy to use news ticket to your site. You can set it to load content from an RSS feed or list elements. The speed, direction of text animation and other visual effects can be easily customized.

Booklet Booklet is a jQuery plugin for displaying content on the Web in a flipbook layout. You can place any sort of HTML elements inside of your booklet pages. It supports manual page turning, keyboard navigation and page numbers.

turn.js turn.js is a plugin for jQuery that adds a beautiful transition similar to real pages in a book or magazine for HTML5.

jQuery Collapse jQuery Collapse is a lightweight plugin that enables expanding and collapsing of content blocks. It includes feature like cookie persistence whereby which it will remember what’s visible and what’s not on each visitor’s visits.

jPages jPages is a client-side pagination plugin but it gives you a lot more features comparing to most of the other plugins for this purpose, such as auto page turn, key and scroll browse, showing items with delay and completely customizable navigation panel.

Masonry Masonry is a dynamic grid layout plugin for jQuery. Think of it as the flip-side of CSS floats. Whereas floating arranges elements horizontally then vertically, Masonry arranges elements vertically, positioning each element in the next open spot in the grid. The result minimizes vertical gaps between elements of varying height, just like a mason fitting stones in a wall.

PageSlide PageSlide is a jQuery plugin allows you to add slide interaction to your pages. When clicked, your main viewport will slide to reveal an additional interaction pane. This is pretty handy for revealing sidebar navigation or widgets in a web application.

Alert, Tooltip and Notification jQuery Plugins

Slide Note Slide Note is a jQuery plugin that makes it easy to display sliding notifications on your site or web application. It offers flexible positioning options, support for AJAX, CSS hooks and more.

Apprise Apprise is an alert box plugin that is very simple, fast and attractive. IT gives you complete control over style, content, position and functionality. Apprise is, more or less, for the developer who wants an attractive alert or dialog box without having to download a massive UI framework.

qTip2 qTip2 is an advanced tooltip plugin that is user-friendly yet featured rich. It provides you with features like rounded corners, speech bubble tips and is completely free to use under the MIT license.

jQuery Video and Audio Plugins

jQuery tubular jQuery tubular is a plugin that places a YouTube video of your choice into your page as a background. Usage is straightforward and requires JavaScript and the Flash player to be installed and functional on the client’s browser.

jPlayer jPlayer is a free and open source media library written on the top of jQuery. It allows you to rapidly weave cross-platform audio and video into your web pages. It is totally customizable and skinnable using HTML and CSS.

FitVids.JS FitVids.JS is a lightweight and easy-to-use jQuery plugin for fluid width video embeds. It is ideal for responsive web design whereby which the embedded video size will increase or decrease automatically to adjust based on the browser’s size.

Speakker Speakker is a cross-browser audio solution featuring HTML5. It comes out of the box in two variations and with incredible options of customization: Flexible dimensions, unlimited colors and two different button sets for light and dark themes.

Buzz Buzz is a small but powerful Javascript library that allows you to easily take advantage of the new HTML5 audio element. It degrades gracefully on non-modern browsers.

jQuery Image Plugins

CloudZoom CloudZoom allows you to add image zoom functionality to your images when mouse hovered over. You can easily alter the appearance of the smaller image, lens and zoom window through regular CSS.

MobilyNotes MobilyNotes is a lightweight jQuery plugin that shows your images or other HTML content in a stacked manner. You can use it to rotate your images and content.

CraftMap CraftMap is a lightweight, fully configurable jQuery plugin that converts a simple image into a functional map by overlaying dynamic elements on it such as markers. Like Google Maps, you can place your own marker icons and add location information to specific markers with a draggable image interface.

NailThumb NailThumb is a plugin that allows you to create thumbnails easily from high-resolution images, without any distortion, with one line of code only. You can even decide the thumbnail dimensions directly from CSS. It integrates perfectly with any media gallery.

Slidorion Slidorion combines the look of an image slider and an accordion to display beautiful images along with a variable length description. With slides linked to each tab, and accompanied by a large array of effects, the Slidorion is a great alternative to the traditional jQuery slider.

Craftyslide Craftyslide is a tiny (just 2kb) slideshow built on jQuery. It aims to be different, by providing a simple, no-frills method of displaying images; packaged into a small, clean and efficient plugin.

Glisse.js Glisse.js is a simple, responsive and fully customizable jQuery photo viewer. The transitions between the images are handled via CSS3.

jQuery Navigation Plugins

Page Scroller Page Scroller is a simple and elegant navigation plugin that adds smooth scroll functionality to your web page. The plugin is so simple that you can animate any web site.

jQuery contextMenu contextMenu plugin allows you to add context menus to your web application. These can be triggered with right-click, left-click, hover or your own custom trigger events. You can populate your menu dynamically and on-demand and incorporate form input elements within the menu.

jQCloud jQCloud is a jQuery plugin that builds neat and pure HTML + CSS word clouds and tag clouds that are actually shaped like a cloud.

jQuery Charts and Timeline

jqPlot jqPlot is a plotting and charting plugin for the jQuery Javascript framework. jqPlot produces beautiful line, bar and pie charts with many features like automatic trend line computation, tooltips and data point highlighting.

Flot Flot is a pure Javascript plotting library for jQuery. It produces graphical plots of arbitrary datasets on-the-fly client-side. The focus is on simple usage (all settings are optional), attractive looks and interactive features like zooming and mouse tracking.

Morris.js Morris.js is a lightweight library that uses jQuery and Raphaël to make drawing time-series graphs easy.

Timeline Timeline is a jQuery plugin that allows you to easily add interactive timelines to your site. It is also great for pulling in media from different sources. It has built in support for pulling in Tweets and media from Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Vimeo, Google Maps and SoundCloud. To add events to your timeline, you can populate it using a Google spreadsheet or via JSON.

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New & Noteworthy Scripts

easybook easybook is a PHP application that lets you easily publish book in various electronic formats: PDF, HTML and EPUB. It works by converting text archives written using the Markdown syntax. (Markdown is the standard format for writing documentation on the Internet). You can use easybook to publish novels, manuals, technical books and websites with your projects documentation.

Ospriet Ospriet is a moderation tool that allows audiences to post and vote on questions/comments for talks, presentation and events. It is built on Twitter and is written in node.js and uses MongoDB for database storage. Anyone with aTwitter account can submit a question or comment by posting an @-reply to a dedicated Twitter account. These submissions are then moderated and posted to the application with attributions.

Presenteer Presenteer.js is a jQuery plugin that provides a very flexible HTML5 presentation tool that works in one line of code and is configurable with constructor options and callbacks. It allows you to create stunning web-based presentation with effects like rotation, slide, etc.

elFinder elFinder is an open-source file manager for the Web written in JavaScript using jQuery and jQuery UI. Its layout and simplicity of use is highly inspired from Mac OS X Finder application. You can perform all operations with files and folders on a remote server like copy, move, upload, create file/folder and delete. elFinder support background file upload with drag-and-drop HTML5.

ProjectSend ProjectSend (previously cFTP) is a free, clients-oriented, private file sharing web application. Clients are created and assigned a username and password. Files can then be uploaded under each account and optionally a name and description can be attributed to them. ProjectSend works on common hosting environments to provide an easy and secure multi-file uploading system.

phpSitemapNG phpSitemapNG is a free Google Sitemaps generator written in PHP, but also generates RSS-based, txt-based and HTML-based sitemap files. It will spider your website and generate the XML-based sitemaps.

W-Script W-script is a free wallpaper script that allows you to start a wallpaper showcase and sharing Web site. It support features like color indexing, bulk upload from browser, unlimited catalogs, and automated wallpaper size generation for different desktop resolution and mobile devices.

PHP Tag cloud PHP Tag cloud is an easy-to-use PHP tag cloud class that allows you to generate and display tag clouds from either a database or text file source. The class provides different methods to manipulate the tag cloud including addition of new tags, adjusting the size of the tags, limiting the number of tags or even setting the order.

Cockpito Cockpito is an easy-to-install and use application metrics measuring and monitoring software, written in PHP/MySQL. By simply adding ready-to-use functions inside your application (web app, desktop app, mobile app or website), you can send tracking data to your Cockpito application and then monitor and track usage metrics.

Useful Hosted Apps

PHPForms PHPForms is a hosted application that allows you to create Web forms quickly and easily using an advanced Web Form Builder. You can create an unlimited number of forms with any form elements like radio-buttons, text areas, pull-down menus, checboxes, etc. Form submissions may be sent to multiple email addresses or saved on the server and eventually exported as CSV files.

TeamBox Teambox brings the familiarity of social networks to your projects. Sharing tasks and files is simple and secure. Manage tasks with status, due dates and milestones. Use the Kanban view for a quick overview of projects.

CushyCMS CushyCMS is a fast, simple and free content management system that aims to make life easier for web designers by simplifying content management. Cushy is a hosted application — no custom installation, packages or mods required on your end!

Helpful Web Design Resources

Smush.it Smush.it uses optimization techniques specific to image format to remove unnecessary bytes from image files. After Smush.it runs on a web page it reports how many bytes would be saved by optimizing the page’s images and provides a downloadable zip file with the minimized image files.

Stripemania Stripemania is a simple and free tool to create seamless diagonal stripes for your designs. You are able to choose the size of the stripes and the spacing between those. You can even add color gradient effect for all of your stripes.

Clean CSS Clean CSS is an online tool that allows you to optimize and format your CSS declarations. By simply copy-and-pasting your code or uploading it from a URL, you can select different compression options.

Useful Desktop and Online Tools

Fiddle Salad Fiddle Salad is an online IDE for building client-side web applications. You can use it to write and test your HTML/CSS/JavaScript code in a single-page interface and review your output in real-time. It supports Zend Coding mode, JavaScript debug and version tracking.

SnipSave SnipSave is a free online tool that allows you to save your code snippets online. It features a very easy-to-use interface where you can quickly create, edit, tag and delete your snippets. SnipSave will auto-detect your code and apply relevant syntax-highlighting.

Wappalyzer Wappalyzer is a browser extension that uncovers the technologies used on websites. It detects content management systems, web shops, web servers, JavaScript frameworks, analytics tools and many more.This extension is available for Firefox, and Google Chrome.

Recent Web Development News

Google Offering Free GoMo Sites Google is helping small businesses to optimize online storefronts for mobile by offering free websites via its GoMo page. Google’s GoMo and DudaMobile have joined together to better streamline desktop sites to be more mobile-friendly, by offering various templates, which can be customized.

Adobe Shadow Labs Release 2 Now Available Adobe Shadow, tools that make developing mobile Web sites easier and faster, has been updated to stay in line with current Web standards. Adobe released the details of the new Shadow Labs Release 2 today. They’re incorporating many of the features that users have requested.

WordPress.com Gets New REST API WordPress.com has announced a brand new REST API, which gives developers access to tons of new content, including posts and comments, as well as the ability to Follow, Like, or Reblog content for users.

Twitter Makes Its MySQL Work Open Source Twitter announced on its engineering blog that its work with MySQL will now be available to all under an open source license. This is pretty big since Twitter is basically built on MySQL from the interest graph and timelines to user data and the tweets themselves.

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New & Noteworthy Scripts

Timeline Timeline is a jQuery plugin that allows you to easily add interactive timelines to your site. It is also great for pulling in media from different sources. It has built in support for pulling in Tweets and media from Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Vimeo, Google Maps and SoundCloud. To add events to your timeline, you can populate it using a Google spreadsheet or via JSON.

AjaXplorer AjaXplorer is a PHP and AJAX based file management system that you can install on your server to host and access your files from anywhere. It sports a modern and responsive interface very similar to OS-native file explorers. Users can easily share files or folders over the Internet, preview and edit most common file formats directly online, without having to download/upload the files to/from their local computer.

GelSheet GelSheet is a free and open source web spreadsheet that allows users to create, edit and export in many formats. It’s intended to run either standalone or integrated within another web tool. GelSheet is also available as a WordPress plugin.

jQuery File Upload jQuery File Upload is a file upload widget with multiple file and drag and drop support. During the file upload process, nice progress bars and preview images are displayed. It also supports cross-domain, chunked and resumable file uploads. You can use it with any server-side programming language that can handle HTML form file upload.

Hammer.js Hammer.js is a JavaScript library for adding touch events in your web site. It is lightweight (with only 2kb) and extremely easy to implement. It currently support gestures like tap, double tap, hold, drag and transform. Please note that this library requires jQuery.

Kimai Kimai is a free open source timetracker based on PHP5 and MySQL 5. It tracks work time and prints out a summary of your activities on demand. You can also run date-ranged reports by customer, project or activity. Kimai has support for multiple users as well.

Flotr2 Flotr2 is a library for drawing HTML5 charts and graphs. It can generate line graphs, bar charts, pie charts and bubble charts. These graphs and charts are generated using HTML5′s canvas and work across several desktop and mobile browsers. Once you provide the data points, the application will automatically calibrate the scale of your axes. Graphs can be zoomed and downloaded as PNG or JPG images.

jTable jTable is a jQuery plugin that is used to create AJAX based CRUD tables without coding HTML or Javascript. The HTML table is automatically generated with records fetched from the server using AJAX. Records can also be added, updated and deleted. jTable unlike other similar CRUD datagrids is easy to use and comes with PHP and ASP.NET sample codes.

Centurion Project Centurion is an open-source CMS delivered as a flexible PHP5 Content Management Framework. It is based on the Zend Framework and its components are generic, simple, clear and reusable. Centurion comes with the following components: Forms, caching, files, CRUD, views, signals and database.

OSClass OSClass is a PHP-based script that allows you to create a classified ads website. It can be used to set up a generic listings site or an industry-specific classified ads site for autos, jobs, real estate, and dating. It is easy to install and scales nicely on websites with millions of pageviews per month.

Useful Hosted Apps

Pusher Pusher is a hosted application that provides a set of different APIs for quickly, easily and securely adding scalable realtime functionality to web and mobile apps. These sets of APIs and libraries available in different languages is great for building apps that requires chat, activity streams, notification, collaboration and dashboards functionalities.

Trestle Trestle provides a suite of Cloud based services that includes user accounts, image manipulation, audio conversion and push notifications designed to make your job as a developer easier. Whether you choose just a single service API or you decide to use them all, there’s likely a service available to help you get your project done faster.

IntenseDebate IntenseDebate is a hosted application that allows you to provide feature-rich comment system for WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr and many other blogging/CMS platforms. Let your readers post comments using services like Facebook, Twitter, and OpenID.

Helpful Web Design Resources

creaTTor creaTTor is a community-driven creative library of free assets for your web design projects. It has a growing collection of site templates including WordPress themes, Joomla templates, Drupal themes, etc. You will also find free vectors, graphics and Flash components.

Entypo Entypo is a set of 100+ carefully crafted pictograms available as an OpenType font, vector EPS and web font. These sets are perfect for websites, apps and digital services.

Subtle Patterns Subtle Patterns is a design resource site offering high quality tilable textured patterns for free. It currently serves over 200 patterns and you can also download all patterns on the site as a single Photoshop pattern file.

New Desktop and Online Tools

Intype Intype is a text editor with advanced text editing features including select & edit, snippet insertion and management, auto-paired characters, fast syntax highlighting and code-coloring themes. Snippets, themes or even language grammars can be changed or added in the comfy extension editor. Intype has been optimized for speed and has snappy responses.

DirtyMarkup DirtyMarkup is an online tool that combines the power of HTML Tidy, CSS Tidy, JS Beautify, and the Ace editor to effortlessly clean up your messy code. Just paste your code (HTML, CSS or JavaScript) into the editor and press “clean” to tidy and beautify your code.

Crunch Crunch is an Adobe Air based CSS/LESS editor and compiler. (LESS is a JavaScript based CSS preprocessor which allows you to write CSS in its extended syntax and it will automatically compile that code into normal CSS.) Crunch supports multi-tab and syntax highlighting.

SpritePad SpritePad is an online tool that allows you to create your CSS sprints within seconds. Simply drag and drop your images directly in your browser and have them immediately available as one PNG spring with its CSS code.

Recent Web Development News

PHP 5.4.0 Released PHP version 5.4.0 was released earlier this month. This release is a major leap forward in the 5.x series and includes a large number of new features and bug fixes. Some of the key features in PHP 5.4.0 include: new language syntax, improved performance and reduced memory consumption, etc

Microsoft Makes ASP.NET Open Source Microsoft has announced that it is opensourcing ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET Web API, ASP.NET Web Pages v2 (Razor) under the Apache 2.0 license. While the source for ASP.NET MVC was made available since its release, community contributions were never included in releases. Microsoft will now ship community code inside ASP.NET in upcoming versions of Visual Studio.

Google’s Go Programming Language Gets Stable Release Google has been toiling away on the Go Project since 2009. After three years and over 200 people contributing to the project, the Go Project has reached a major milestone and can now be considered usable by the masses.

Adobe Releases AIR 3.2 and Flash Player 11.2 Adobe announced the release of Flash Player 11.2 and Air 3.2 today, as the firm continues their push to help developers deliver media rich applications and console-quality games that run in web browsers.

MacAfee Introduces Free Plugin for MySQL Audits McAfee has released a free open source plugin for MySQL database that shows detailed activity from database audits. The plugin features visibility into database vulnerabilities and supports databases such as Oracle, Sybase, MS-SQL and DB2.

Google Releases App Engine 1.6.4 The Google App Engine blog announced the release of App Engine 1.6.4 today. Unlike other incremental numbered updates, App Engine receives quite the hefty update this time with plenty of features that should make developers happy.

Developers Prefer Google Over Facebook A new study from Appcelerator and the International Data Corporation (IDC) found that developers are more interested in Google than Facebook. According to the report, 39 percent of the more than 2,000 mobile developers surveyed plan to focus more on Google initiatives than Facebook’s social graph this year.

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General Web Development

W3Schools

W3Schools is a  developer’s portal with tutorials and references relating to web development subjects, including HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, and SQL. The tutorials and references on the website are accompanied by great try-it-yourself examples.

Tizag

Tizag was created to be a stepping-stone to the budding webmaster and a handy reference to the veteran developer. Each tutorial has been written to be easy-to-understand and the references covers in-depth attributes/tags/syntax of each language along with accompanying examples.

Google Code University

Google Code University is an initiative from Google and schools across the US to provide course content and tutorials on programming related topics. You can find great courses on desktop, web and mobile programming as well as courses on specialized topics like web security, distributed systems and Google APIs and Tools. All courses are accompanied by great examples and exercises.

HTML5

HTML-5-Tutorial

HTML-5-Tutorial.com is geared to those who want to edit and write HTML code by hand. Knowing how the nuts and bolts of a webpage fit and work together gives you the means to utilize HTML5′s full potential.

HTML5Doctor

HTML5Doctor has a growing list of categorized posts grouped in order to get you started with HTML5 or help you understand the specification and specific elements a little more. The blog posts are well written with ample of code samples.

Dive Into HTML5

Dive Into HTML5  is a free online version of Mark Pilgrim’s book “HTML5L: Up & Running”. It seeks to elaborate on a handpicked selection of features from the HTML5 specification and other fine Standards.

JavaScript & jQuery

Codecademy

Codecademy is an interactive command-line driven teach-yourself tool that makes learning to code easy, fun and addictive. JavaScript is currently the only web-based course available and is broken down into eight lessons that will teach you how to set variables, create alerts and work with strings. You will earn badges each time you complete a lesson and you can track and share your progress with your friends.

Eloquent JavaScript

Eloquent JavaScript is a free online book providing an introduction to the JavaScript programming language and programming in general. It goes beyond the cut-and-paste scripts of the recipe books and teaches you to write code that’s elegant and effective. Apart from a bookful of text, it contains plenty of example programs, and an environment to try them out and play with them.

jQuery fundamentals

jQuery fundamentals is a free ebook that provides an overview of the jQuery JavaScript library. When you’re done with the book, you should be able to complete basic tasks using jQuery, and have a solid basis from which to continue your learning. This book was designed as material to be used in a classroom setting, but you may find it useful for individual study.

appendTo

appendTo offers a couple of fundamental JavaScript and jQuery screencasts designed to help you learn at your own pace. Most of the screencasts are accompanied by exercises to test the skills you’ve just learned.

JavaScript Garden

JavaScript Garden is a growing collection of documentation about the most quirky parts of the JavaScript programming language. It gives advice to avoid common mistakes and subtle bugs, as well as performance issues and bad practices, that non-expert JavaScript programmers may encounter on their endeavors into the depths of the language.

jQuery Air

jQuery Air is a free web-course offered by code school. You’ll watch five videos, each followed by code challenges where you’ll learn to code jQuery and apply principles directly in the browser.

Mozilla Developers Network JavaScript Guide

Mozilla Developers Network JavaScript Guide is a comprehensive guide that explains everything you need to know about using JavaScript. It covers topics like variables, expression, operations, objects, methods and arrays.

JavaScript Essential

JavaScript Essential is a book available for free reading online. It is designed to provide a detailed and comprehensive, yet easy to follow, guide to developing powerful, dynamic web pages using JavaScript.

PHP

Zend’s PHP 101

PHP 101 is a 15-part tutorial series intended for everyone interested in learning about elementary PHP 4 or basic PHP 5. These tutorials are highly informative and entertaining at the same time.

Practical PHP Programming

Practical PHP Programming is a series of PHP tutorials with the goal of making the task of learning PHP something fun. It contains lots of information for newcomers as well as information on advanced functionality in PHP for veterans.

PHP 5 Power Programming

PHP 5 Power Programming is a free eBook (available in PDF) that will show you how to make the most of PHP 5′s industrial-strength enhancements in any project – no matter how large or complex. Whether you’re creating web applications, extensions, packages, or shell scripts – or migrating PHP 4 code – this book covers high-powered solutions you won’t find anywhere else.

phpacademy

phpacademy has a growing collection of over 300 video tutorials covering a wide range of PHP-related and other web development topics for both beginner and intermediate users. All the videos are on-demand and completely free.

Ruby on Rails

RailsforZombies

RailsforZombies is browser-based tutorial that will teach you the basics of web application development using Ruby on Rails. It consists of 5 video lessons broken down into different video chapters. You can watch the videos online or download them to watch offline – either on your desktop or iPhone/iPad. Each lesson is followed by exercise where you’ll be programming Rails in your browser.

RailsCasts

RailsCasts offers screencasts (both free and paid) featuring tips and tricks with Ruby on Rails. The screencasts are short and focus on one technique so you can quickly move on to applying it to your own project. The topics target the intermediate Rails developer, but beginners and experts will get something out of it as well.

Four Days on Rails

Four Days on Rails is a free eBook that attempts to teach you the underlying coding that goes through developing a Rail application. After reading this 40-pages eBook, you will have a useful toolbox of Rails techniques and a good idea of where to look on the web for more information.

Ruby on Rails Tutorial book

The Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial book teach you how to develop and deploy real, industrial-strength web applications with Ruby on Rails. It covers a wide array of topics including installing and deploying Ruby on Rails, scaffolding, working with static pages and handling layouts, etc.

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Here are some of the great features you’ll find in ChiliProject:

1. Ability to set up a roadmap for your project with related tasks and deadlines.
2. Map your roadmap in a Grantt chart.
3. Report and track issues (includes automated email notification and activity feeds).
4. Collaborate on content using its wiki.
5. Integration with code repositories like Subversion or Git.
6. Share and update documents and files.
7. Track time spent on tasks.
8. Discuss projects with internal and external peers using the forum feature.

You can also add extra features to support your needs by using 3rd-party plugins. For more Ruby on Rails applications, visit our dedicated Ruby on Rails applications category.

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Flotr2 is a fork of the Flotr project without the Prototype library dependency and includes some extra enhancements. It doesn’t rely on any external library and its built-in framework has a great API that you can leverage to build new graph types. Once you provide the data points, the application will automatically calibrate the scale of your axes. Graphs can be zoomed and downloaded as PNG or JPG images.

For more HTML5 applications, please visit our HTML5 applications category.

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Hovercard uses minimum CSS and can support any HTML content – you can mix text with images and can style them accordingly. The most recent version has built-in Twitter and Facebook hovercards functionality whereby which recent Tweets or Facebook account details for a person or group are fetched and rendered in the hovercard automatically.

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Joomla!’s search engine feature now handles better natural language search and auto-completion. The new automatic update mimics WordPress built-in notification and update system whereby which site administrators are notified of new updates for Joomla! as well as third party extensions they have installed. The updates can be performed right from the administrative control panel.

According to water&stone’s 2011 CMS market share report, Joomla ranks second, just behind WordPress in terms of overall weekly download. The overall adoption rate of Joomla has also increased significantly since August 2011 when the community released version 1.7 that expanded Joomla!’s functionality to handle more than just web content.

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Twitter Clone Scripts

ShareTronix

ShareTronix is an open source microblogging platform with features aplenty. It supports all the features you’re already accustomed with on Twitter and also includes a lot of extra functionalities aimed at enterprise-level microblogging. As with most applications of this type, you’ll find support for status update, real-time dashboard with network activity, groups, search and content tagging. ShareTronix takes status updates beyond text and allow you to attach pictures, videos and other files to your posts to make your conversation more engaging. Some other nice features that caught my attention are real-time RSS aggregation, a powerful search powered by Sphinx, LDAP authentication support, and great integration with Twitter and Facebook.

PeoplePods

PeoplePods is a social software toolkit aimed at building applications where people meet, talk, share, read, work and explore. Based on the foundation of Twitter-like features, registered members can create their own profile, follow others and join public or private groups. PeoplePods has overtime matured in a really stable platform and now powers a couple of great communities, with NeighborGoods.net being my favorite.

StatusNet

StatusNet is an enterprise social network application available as a hosted or on the premise solution. Based in PHP and mySQL, this microblogging application allows its members to ask questions, share information and read posts in real-time. It has support for groups, topics, activity streams, search, etc. The best thing about StatusNet is that it is open source and there are multiple plugins and extensions available to customize the site to your needs.

Twitter Script

Twitter Script is a free PHP application that allows you to run your own microblogging web site just like Twitter and Jaiku. It has multi-language support, comes with a template system that is easy to customize and makes great use of AJAX to provide a responsive experience.

Digg, Mixx and Reddit Clone Scripts

Pligg

Pligg was the first Digg clone released a couple of years ago and is still actively maintained by a group of enthusiast and developers. Users can submit and vote on news article and top voted articles make it to the top of the homepage of your Pligg site. It has support for RSS subscription, groups, private messaging, commenting, etc. Pligg is powered by the Smarty template system, which makes it easier for skinning.

PHPDug

PHPDug is a lightweight Digg clone that is easy to setup and maintain. It has great multilingual support and sports a minimalist but clean design. It has the ability to automatically add stories from RSS feed and can also generate on-the-fly thumbnails for YouTube and Google videos.

YouTube Clone Scripts

PHPMotion

PHPmotion is a free video sharing application that mimics YouTube to some extend. Your members can upload videos, and add description/tags. Videos can, in turn, be embedded on 3^rd-party web sites. PHPmotion will automatically convert your movies into FLV – it can handle .mpg. .avi, .divx and other video formats. Other than videos, PHPmotion can be used as an image or audio sharing platform.

Clip Bucket

ClipBucket is an open source multimedia management script provided free to the community. This script comes with all the bells & whistles required to start your own video sharing web site like YouTube, DailyMotion or MetaCafe. The script is constantly updated to provide the most versatile, reliable and scalable media distribution platform with the latest social networking features.

Facebook Clone Scripts

BuddyPress

BuddyPress is a collection of multiple WordPress plugins and themes that transform an installation of WordPress into a social networking platform. It has all features you’d expect to let your members socially interact. Each registered member gets a personal blog and an extended profile page with his list of friends and groups. Members can private messages each other or leave short messages on each other’s wire.

Elgg

Elgg is an award-winning open source social networking engine that provides a robust framework on which to build all kinds of social environments, from a campus wide social network for your university, school or college or an internal collaborative platform for your organization through to a brand-building communications tool for your company and its clients.

Oxwall

Oxwall is a flexible and easy to use PHP/mySQL community software platform. It comes with some great features like photo and video sharing, blogs, forums, wiki, groups, events, privacy control, etc. Oxwall also has some great plugins and themes to allow you to further customize your social site.

Groupon Clone Script

NDOT Deals

NDOT Deals is unfortunately the only free open source Groupon clone application that I could locate. It allows you to start your own group buying web site. Some of the features includes mobile version of the site, affiliates integration, payment gateway integration, free themes and social media integration. Please take note that the free version is very limited in terms of features.

Google Calendar Clone Script

wdCalendar

wdCalendar is a JQuery-based Google Calendar clone. The interface makes great use of AJAX to provide a responsive interface with drag-and-drop functionalities. The calendar can be set to daily/weekly/monthly view.

StackOverflow / Yahoo Answers Clone Scripts

Question2Answer

Question2Asnwer is a free and open source platform for Q&A communities similar to StackOverflow or Yahoo Answers. It is based in PHP and mySQL and is very easy to install. Question2Asnwer has some great community engagement tools like commenting, voting, email notification, user points and rankings. If you use WordPress, please take note that Question2Asnwer offers out-of-the-box integration with your existing WordPress site and user database.

Coordino

Coordino is based on the standard PHP/mySQL platform to provide a feature-rich question and answer system. You can use it to create a niche question and answer site or as a knowledge base solution for your Intranet. Some of its key features include user rewards, tagging, site administration and remote authentication.

OSQA

OSQA is a free open source Q&A system written in Python and utilizes the Django application framework. It is more than a mere Q&A platform but comes with some decent features not found in other similar applications. Your members can for instance follow other people and topics and exchange private messages. There is also support for widgets to expand its functionality and most importantly its interface is sleek and usable.

Photobucket / ImageShack Clone Scripts

Cheverato

Chevereto is a free script, written in PHP, that lets you set up your own image hosting on your web server. It supports image upload either from your local computer or from a remote URL. Images uploaded can be set to automatically resize and you can set it to shorten the image URL using TinyURL web service.

CF Image Host

CF Image Host is a free, simple and easy to use PHP Image hosting script, which aims to make it easy to setup and maintain a photo/image hosting/sharing site. With thumbnails and social bookmarking links generated for each image, sharing your images or photos across the web couldn’t be made any easier.

Dropbox Clone Script

SparkleShare

SparkleShare is a free open source collaboration and sharing tool similar to Dropbox. You can store files on your hosting account and share them with others. Documents are synchronized to all your peers when changes are made. You will also be notified via its desktop client (available for Mac, Windows, Linux and Android) when someone has made a change.

TinyURL Clone Scripts

YOURLS

YOURLS is a small set of PHP scripts that will allow you to run your own URL shortening service (a la TinyURL). You can make it private or public, you can pick custom keyword URLs, it comes with its own API. It also includes some really great analytics like historical click reports, referrals tracking, and visitors’ geo-location.

lilURL

lilURL is a simple PHP/ mySQL script for generating short URLs. It’s similar to TinyURL, Shorl, MakeAShorterLink, etc, but you can run it on your own server.

PopURLs Clone Script

NewsBlock

NewsBlock is a free PHP script that allows you to replicate functionalities of PopURLs. This script leverages SimplePie’s RSS feed parsing capabilities to return multiple feeds from various website with each one having its own block on the homepage.

Del.icio.us Clone Script

GetBoo

GetBoo is a PHP-based del.icio.us clone with a decent bookmarking system that can support both social (with tags) and private (with folders) bookmarks. It has a feature that will allow your users to import and export their bookmark from their browsers. The admin console includes spam protection, transaction, bookmarklets, RSS feeds, and more.

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Luckily, there’s now a sleek, lightweight, and feature-rich plugin called Sharrre that ends this frustration. Sharrre is a jQuery plugin that allows you to create and personalize uniform sharing widgets for popular social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, LinkedIn and more. All Sharrre’s buttons are similar in size and design style and use API to fetch real-time sharing counts across different social networking sites.

The script comes with different pre-built styles and also includes a total sharing count aggregation feature. Sharrre also includes support for Google Analytics social tracking and works across most popular browsers.

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