WebDev3000 » Code http://www.webdev3000.com web design, freebies and more Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:07:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Juitter http://www.webdev3000.com/juitter/ http://www.webdev3000.com/juitter/#comments Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:50:44 +0000 Codrut Nistor http://www.webdev3000.com/?p=984 While messing with Twitter itself on a regular basis is nothing but a huge waste of time (my personal opinion, of course, you’re free to disagree with it), I have to admit that a lot of the messages sent by Twitter user may lead to useful information. Great, but how can one avoid using Twitter, yet gain access to the goodies that can be found with its help? Without too many doubts, I can say that the answer is not a single one, but Juitter can be one of the possible ones, so… let’s get to it!

Completely free to download and use (donations are welcome, anyway), Juitter is a highly customizable, lightweight and fast jQuery plugin that allows you to easily put live Twitter content on your site. According to its official page I just mentioned, Juitter is smaller and faster than other Twitter widgets, offers content filtering, allows you to show tweets from/to a user or containing a certain word, multiple user/word search is also possible, results can even be filtered based on language and, in case you were wondering, you can add your own stylesheet to make it look exactly as you wish. Not bad at all, right?

Developed by Rodrigo Fante, the Juitter jQuery plugin works with all major browsers on any platform, as long as Java is running as it should. Oh, yeah – if you want to know about its licensing model, keep in mind that Juitter comes covered by the terms of the MIT license. That’s all, folks! ;)

… but, in case you didn’t figure that out yet, the official site of this piece of code is also its demo, since it uses it to display those live Twitter results. Bingo!

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]]> http://www.webdev3000.com/juitter/feed/ 1 Videola http://www.webdev3000.com/videola/ http://www.webdev3000.com/videola/#comments Tue, 28 Jun 2011 07:45:51 +0000 Codrut Nistor http://www.webdev3000.com/?p=981 I don’t know about you, but I think that a really good book simply doesn’t need a movie adaptation. For example, I simply wasn’t able to watch Dune after reading Frank Herbert’s books. If I have to eliminate one of the following – music, video and text – it’s always the video part that goes out. I know it may sound strange, but that’s my personal opinion and I’m not going to change it anytime soon. Well, my personal opinion doesn’t stop me from writing about video-related piece of code, so here’s Videola!

Built on Drupal and open sourced, Videola is, as far as the official mumbo-jumbo goes, “an enterprise-level video management system and video delivery platform. It allows you to create paid-access or free-access video websites which can serve video to the desktop, mobile, or television-based devices.” This piece of code allows you to easily create your own video streaming website using any business model you consider best – subscription (Netflix On-Demand style), ad-supported (Hulu style) or rental (Blockbuster / Amazon style). Obviously, you can (and should, I guess) use your own video content…

… so if you got enough videos ready to be streamed, I think the features at your disposal should be more than enough – Videola offers quite a few of them, including extensive video analytics, HD/adaptive bitrate/secure video streaming, user queues, listing of similar videos on each page, option to show video previews to non-subscribed users, in-stream ads and even iOS & Android compatible mobile streaming via WiFi or 3G. Awesome!

In case you’re still wondering, you should know that Videola works with all major browsers, including mobile ones, requiring that you have PHP & MySQL up and running on your server. A demo can be accessed right here. That’s all, folks!

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]]> http://www.webdev3000.com/videola/feed/ 1 yfrog for iPhone http://www.webdev3000.com/yfrog-for-iphone/ http://www.webdev3000.com/yfrog-for-iphone/#comments Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:40:23 +0000 Codrut Nistor http://www.webdev3000.com/?p=978 I got a friend who’s working as a software developer, mostly for desktop platforms, but since he’s into financial software (and completely fed up with it), we have talks about ways of making money from time to time. As you can imagine, none of us got rich yet, but at least we’re trying. I am no developer, but every time we talk about software to develop, there are three words I keep repeating to him: iPhone, Twitter, Android. So far, nothing came out, but we’re boiling our brains on a regular basis to give birth to some brilliant idea. Anyway, until then… checking others’ projects is a pretty good start, and today the time has come for ImageShack’s yfrog for iPhone!

According to the official description found on code.google.com, yfrog for iPhone “is an open source Twitter client for Apple iPhone and iPod Touch,” previously known as Tweetero. Its rich list of features includes the ability to view tweets and lists as you wish, mess with the mobile notifications, schedule posts/uploads, forward tweets by email, take and send pictures that end up hosted on Yfrog.com and so on.

To freely install yfrog for iPhone, just click right here. For more screenshots, click here. Sure, since I already mentioned that yfrog for iPhone is open source, feel free to mess with the code, if you got the skills and the time required to do that. For me, it’s bye-bye time now. See you next week! ;)

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]]> http://www.webdev3000.com/yfrog-for-iphone/feed/ 0 Css-sprit.es http://www.webdev3000.com/css-sprit-es/ http://www.webdev3000.com/css-sprit-es/#comments Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:45:23 +0000 Codrut Nistor http://www.webdev3000.com/?p=959 While an experienced developer can get started with CSS and go above average level in less than an hour, I think that code generators should be used as often as possible, I decided to take a closer look at another Web-based CSS tool. After a few minutes spent searching for something interesting enough, I ended up facing today’s subject – ladies and gentlemen, here’s Css-sprit.es!

Before anything else, Css-sprit.es is a great domain name, if you ask me. Other than that, I think I should add that this is a Web-based CSS sprites generator that can be freely used by anyone and packs a bunch of interesting features, including CSS-based rollover effects with a few different presets available. The sprite image to upload can be in the JPG, GIF or PNG format, while output is CSS or SASS.


“Carefully handcrafted by Nicolas Crovatti” and powered by jQuery and Pixastic, Css-sprit.es is still in Beta status, but seems like a pretty useful, good looking and reliable Web-based tool, so why not take it for a spin? Since “Beta” also means “possibly buggy” and I must confess I didn’t manage to spot any bugs, could you drop a comment below with any compatibility/functional bugs that you encountered, if any? Thank you in advance!

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]]> http://www.webdev3000.com/css-sprit-es/feed/ 0 OpenJS Grid http://www.webdev3000.com/openjs-grid/ http://www.webdev3000.com/openjs-grid/#comments Thu, 26 May 2011 21:18:29 +0000 Codrut Nistor http://www.webdev3000.com/?p=949 I hate statistics. I think I said that before, but I must say it again. It’s my hate for the math behind it, not anything else, since I must also admit that a lot of useful information is contained in various databases and tables. When it comes to displaying them, things can get rather ugly… but you can also step into a beautiful world and show records nicely shaped into a user-friendly datagrid, all thanks to OpenJS Grid, today’s topic.

To make a longer story as short as possible, I will say that OpenJS Grid is – at least according to its official page – “the easiest jQuery Grid ever,” its current version being labeled “1.7″ and offering a bunch of interesting features, including inline editing, the ability to show or hide row numbers, various data filtering methods, even CSS3-powered theming support!

Unfortunately, it seems that the theming part only works in Firefox and Chrome as it should, since I noticed some strange display issues in Opera and IE 8. Other than that, it is supposed that OpenJS Grid requires jQuery and it’s compatible with all major browsers but, as I just said, it seems to be “more compatible” with some than others… so please feel free to drop a comment and enlighten me: what seems to be wrong with this piece of code in Opera or IE? Maybe it’s just something wrong on this side, after all… ;)

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]]> http://www.webdev3000.com/openjs-grid/feed/ 0 WD3K Ajax Sliding Contact Form 1.0 released http://www.webdev3000.com/wd3k-ajax-sliding-contact-form-1-0-released/ http://www.webdev3000.com/wd3k-ajax-sliding-contact-form-1-0-released/#comments Wed, 25 May 2011 21:10:51 +0000 Csaba Kissi http://www.webdev3000.com/?p=952 Hello,

Warm day today. But also a WP one ;)  What’s new in the WordPress kitchen ?

I would like to introduce first version of the WD3K Ajax Sliding Contact Form plugin.

This plugin generates nice jQuery powered sliding contact form in the left border of your WP blog. Contains client side validation and Ajax powered mailing, so no page refresh is required. Admin section allows you to configure all form labels including error messages and form status messages. The plugin is based on Contactable (jQuery Plugin) By Philip Beel.

More information and download link can be found in wordpress plugin repository here. Enjoy it !

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]]> http://www.webdev3000.com/wd3k-ajax-sliding-contact-form-1-0-released/feed/ 15 Leaflet http://www.webdev3000.com/leaflet/ http://www.webdev3000.com/leaflet/#comments Tue, 24 May 2011 12:14:40 +0000 Codrut Nistor http://www.webdev3000.com/?p=946 In case you missed the big news, the Apocalypse was supposed to drop by this last weekend. Since it seems everyone missed it, I guess we need a map now to find it. That reverend-liar-bastard surely disappeared to continue his quest to find it and show it to the world… so I can be sure about one thing: he’s using a map. Hahaha… but it’s not funny, considering that the idiot received donations estimated to be around (in fact AT LEAST) $70 million!!! Well, let’s leave this shit aside and move to the maps, the only part of the story above that makes any sense, as well as Leaflet, today’s maps-related topic, shall we?

I know this doesn’t look good to many people and I am not crazy about it, either, but one of the best way to describe a piece of code is, at least sometimes, to use the description coming from the people behind it, so here’s that one for Leaflet: “Leaflet is a modern, lightweight BSD-licensed JavaScript library for making tile-based interactive maps for both desktop and mobile web browsers, developed by CloudMade to form the core of its next generation JavaScript API.”

Freely available and very easy to use, Leaflet is both extensible and modular, offering support for quite a few features, including drag panning, animated zoom, double-click- and scroll wheel-powered zoom, image overlays, even hardware acceleration on iOS, smart polyline/polygon rendering and many others. A detailed list of features can be found right here, while the examples are waiting for you on this page.

At last, I think I should add a few words about browsers support, because this part looks awesome: Firefox 3.6+, Chrome, Safari 5+, Opera 11.11+ and IE 7–9 on desktops, while mobile platforms running Safari for iOS 3/4+ and WebKit for Android 2.2+ browsers shouldn’t have any problems with Leaflet, either. That’s all for today, folks! ;)

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]]> http://www.webdev3000.com/leaflet/feed/ 1 WD3K sexy social 0.9 released http://www.webdev3000.com/wd3k-sexy-social-0-9-released/ http://www.webdev3000.com/wd3k-sexy-social-0-9-released/#comments Fri, 20 May 2011 20:59:31 +0000 Csaba Kissi http://www.webdev3000.com/?p=944 Hello,

Today I released the initial version of my new wordpress plugin named WD3K Sexy Social.

Plugin places animated social icons under your WP posts and let your users to share your posts on many famous social network sites. Currently following social networks are supported:

  1. bebo
  2. delicious
  3. digg
  4. facebook
  5. friendfeed
  6. google
  7. google_buzz
  8. linkedin
  9. myspace
  10. netvibes
  11. newsvine
  12. reddit
  13. stumbleupon
  14. technorati
  15. tumblr
  16. twitter

I added a bit of jQuery code to make it animated. New version will contain one more animation style so you can select the one you like. Feel free to post your comments and requirements about this new plugin.

Looking for demo ? Just take a look bellow this post and share it ;)  You can download the plugin here.

]]> http://www.webdev3000.com/wd3k-sexy-social-0-9-released/feed/ 1 WebApp.Net http://www.webdev3000.com/webapp-net/ http://www.webdev3000.com/webapp-net/#comments Thu, 19 May 2011 18:00:43 +0000 Codrut Nistor http://www.webdev3000.com/?p=941 iPhone application developers, get ready – this one’s for you! Hate it or love it, the iPhone is a real gold mine for developers too, not just for Apple, the carriers and those into making accessories for it, so I decided to find some nice iPhone-related piece of code to expose here today, eventually bumping into WebApp.net… so here it is in all its glory! ;)

As far as the official mumbo-jumbo goes, WebApp.Net is “a light weight, powerful javascript framework taking advantage of AJAX technology.” Just like other similar products, WebApp.Net comes packing a full set of components that are ready to be used to ease development of advanced mobile apps and, since it’s client based, it can be used with any of the server side technologies you may think of, including PHP, ASP.Net or Python, but not limited to them, of course.

Why WebApp.Net? According to its homepage, “WebApp.Net was the first framework to demonstrate the new full screen capabilities of the latest firmware from Apple for iPhone and iPod Touch” and, if that’s not enough, I should also add that “free” thingie to the equation. Of course, donations are always welcome, so…

… no matter if you’re willing to pay for a free thing or not, if you’re an iPhone developer trying to get a better framework to get the job done properly, WebApp.Net may be your lucky shot. Good luck! ;)

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]]> http://www.webdev3000.com/webapp-net/feed/ 0 tooltipsy http://www.webdev3000.com/tooltipsy/ http://www.webdev3000.com/tooltipsy/#comments Tue, 17 May 2011 14:00:47 +0000 Codrut Nistor http://www.webdev3000.com/?p=934 Need a hand? Hey, this week is just taking off, so I see nothing bad in asking for a bit of help, even if it comes shaped as a tooltip. This is not necessarily about software, since I’ve seen a lot of websites that really needed some tooltip-based assistance to make your life easier… so I am sure tooltipsy will find its way straight to the tools collection of many Web designers out there.

The story goes like this: tooltipsy is a jQuery plugin that comes under the terms of the GNU GPL version 2 and – at least according to Brian Cray, its creator – provides “extremely efficient tooltip functionality,” while giving you complete control over all that’s involved in this equation – CSS, position and animation. Before deciding anything, be sure to take a closer look at the samples – just visit this page and hover your mouse cursor above the “Show me” buttons. Well documented, completely free and highly customizable, tooltipsy requires jQuery and should work with all major browsers – at least as long as Javascript is enabled, of course! ;)

Other than the above, I guess I should also add a link to tooltipsy’s GitHub page. Well, that’s all of it for today. See you next time!

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