Archive for August, 2009

Tree for Bugs, Kentico CMS Plants a Tree for Every Bug

In a new and very interesting initiative “Tree for Bugs”, Kentico software announced that they will plant a tree for every bug reported in Kentico CMS 4.1 by clients. The company promises also to fix all reported bugs within 7 days. Hats off for the idea to promote the product, help in its development and discover bugs, and finally a great benefit for the planet with new trees. Below the press release : Kentico Software , the Web content management system vendor, today announced it will plant a tree for every bug found in the latest version of Kentico CMS for ASP.NET. The company also promises to fix all reported bugs within 7 days

TestSwarm, Distributed Continuous Integration for JavaScript

Do you believe that jQuery project is 4 years old now ? The project is even more mature with the latest TestSwarm alpha released this week, “jQuery is now being tested against 50 browsers on 9 platforms, on every commit. That’s pretty much insane.”, said John Resig, the creator of jQuery and TestSwarm . TestSwarm provides distributed continuous integration testing for JavaScript. It was initially created by John Resig as a tool to support the jQuery project and has since moved to become an official Mozilla Labs project. Actually TestSwarm is provided as a service to test few popular JavaScript libraries including jQuery, YUI, Dojo, MooTools, and Prototype. You can also download source code and setup your own swarm

New Product: GamesPack #2

We are proud to announce the immediate availability of our second GamesPack, including a few but great-to-awesome games, such as StarWings, RushRace, or Pirates! Those game’s file-sizes are around 2MB each! meaning you and your users will have plenty of fun playing them. For further info please check the product page here .

Concrete5, The best CMS to come on the block in a long time

Many people look at web applications as magic. WOW!! That site can do that? How can I get a web site to do all that stuff and wait a minute, its easy to modify the text or a graphic?

JavaScript and MVC, Why When and How?

We talked previously about the JavaScriptMVC Framework – a really good JavaScript Framework project to keep an eye on. Since MVC now became a “default” feature in most web frameworks, it was interesting to explore its usage in JavaScript, Ajax, and web 2.0. The MVC pattern is mostly used in web application development to separate between design and logic and make development easier and highly maintainable in enterprise environments. Since JavaScript is excessively used in enterprise today, how could we make it better with design patterns ? Jonathan Snook wrote an interesting introduction to MVC usage in JavaScript where he applied Model-View-Controller pattern on form validation. It’s probably very complex to use in small application, but if you are writing large JavaScriupt-based application this could be with big benefits. Jonathan pointed also to other JavaScript MVC frameworks in addition to JavaScriptMVC : SproutCore and TrimJunction

Piwik, Open Source Web Analytics

Piwik is an open source downloadable web analytics software which aims to provide an alternative to Google Analytics that you can run on your own server. The project was previously known as phpMyVisites and is currently maintained by OpenX, the company behind the free OpenX ad server . Piwik provides you with detailed reports on your website visitors: the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, your popular pages … and much more. Piwik could be integrated with your website as JavaScript code that you insert manually or using one of the existing plugins . With Piwik you will have your own data, you can build your own custom plugins, and you will have a fully customizable interface where you can drag and drop the widgets you want to display and create a report especially tailored to you. The solution allow you also to embed your stats in your website, that’s great if you want to share live stats about your visitors for advertisers. Require PHP 5.1+ and Mysql, the installation process is automatic and takes less than 5 minutes. Released under a GPL license.

OpenGoo, Open Source ExtJs-Based Web Office

OpenGoo is an Open Source initiative to create a complete web Office which focus on improving productivity, collaboration, communication and management of your teams. OpenGoo support text documents, presentations, task list, emails, calendars, web links and contacts; Spreadsheets support is coming soon in future releases. OpenGoo interface is based on ExtJS, but I don’t find it much user friendly compared to Google Documents, or Zoho, but it’s already a great start for an open source project ! OpenGoo requires PHP 5.2+, MySQL 4.1+ with InnoDB support, and Apache 2.0+. The project rely on many other open source libraries in addition to ExtJS – including ActiveCollab , Reece Calendar , Swift Mailer , Open Flash Chart , Slimey , FCKEditor , JSSoundKit , and PEAR . Released under the Affero GPL 3 license. You can try their online demo , but if you downloaded the package don’t try to find an application launcher, Please ! Via Matt Asay, CNET, Alfresco .

MODx, Content Management System and Web Application Framework

MODx is a new free, fast and flexible, ajax and seo content management system and web application framework. Version 1.0 have just been released two weeks ago and came with tons of bug fixes and new features. MODxCMS could be easily extended with addons, core extensions, front-end templates and manager templates. You can also extend its functionnalities by creating your own addons using a flexible API and event model that allows you to override core behavior. MODx helps you take control of your online content. An Open Source PHP application framework, it frees you to build sites exactly how you want and make them 100% yours. Zero restrictions and fast to build. Super-simple templates in regular HTML/CSS/JS (any lib you want). Registered user systems and a killer community. Key features in MODx : PHP Application Framework Strong Web Standards Support Graphical Installer Improved Rich Text Editors Robust CSS Menu Builder Works in your favorite browser Web 2.0 Features, Ajax enabled Robust SEO support Separate Manager and Web User sessions Improved Document Parser and Error handling Custom Content Types and much more..

SimpleCart(js), Shopping made easy with JavaScript

SimpleCart(js) have just released version 2, the JavaScript shopping cart solution. SimpleCart provides an easy to use shopping cart that you can run in minutes without using databases or any programming. SimpleCart(js) is just 20kb, lightweight, fast, simple to use, and completely customizable, you will only need to know basic HTML to get it working correctly. A detailed documentation is available to help you setup, configure, and customize the shopping cart. Support Paypal and Google Checkout for payments.

New Module: NukeONTD

The celebrities are disposable, the content is priceless. Does this phrase sounds familiar to you? then you already know what this module is all about! ONTD is one of those websites I visit regularly from time to time (when feeling bored, mostly) and we thought it should worth having a PHP-Nuke module providing such Hollywood Celebrity News, with links and everything pointing to the original website, of course, they deserve it, no doubt. This module is available for free from our Downloads section. You can try it online here .