Origo – Distributed Software Development

Origo is an open, modular and extensible software development, management and distribution platform. Aimed at software developers, Origo provides a set of services for combining, integrating and facilitating the development process over a network. Origo provides services like source control management, issue tracking, statistics, release hosting, wiki, blog and features for communicating and networking [...]

CodeIgniter – Open source PHP web application framework

CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. If you’re a developer who lives in the real world of shared hosting accounts and clients with deadlines, and if you’re tired of ponderously large and thoroughly undocumented [...]

DrupalCon is coming to Paris in September 2009

Great news! On Thursday evening, the Drupal Association board chose Paris to host the next European Drupalcon.
First of all we want to congratulate the teams from the other two candidate cities, Maastricht and Cologne. We know they worked hard, spent a lot of energy and did a great job. We’re looking forward to working with [...]

SenCSs: Sensible Standards CSS Framework

SenCSs is a Sensible Standards CSS Framework (Pronounce it as “sense”). The current version is 0.5 and supplies sensible styling for all repetitive parts of your CSS.
What features that you can get from SenCSs? Here comes the list:
* Vertical rhythm for all elements
* Common typographic standard across browsers
* Browsers based styling
* Specified fonts for windows, [...]

7 Useful Apps For OSX Web Designers

Because of various requests I received lately and the irrefutable fact, that there are plenty of useful yet sometimes rather unknown applications available for OSX, I’d like to share some of my most vital pieces of software with you ordered by function below.
Image Editing – Photoshop CS3 / CS4
Even though there are some really promising [...]

A Collection of 60+ Free Textures from Stock.xchng

You can get great results and save considerable amounts of time by taking advantage of textures that are freely available. One excellent resources of textures (and other types of stock images) is Stock.xchng. Designm.ag  has shared us “60+ Free Textures from SXC.hu“, you’ll find more than 60 textures from Stock.xchng. Each image links to the page [...]

How to install/enable Drupal modules?

You can enable/disable Drupal Modules from the Drupal Administration area -> Administer -> Site building -> Modules section.

The default installation of Drupal has many useful modules, and there is a brief description of what each one of the modules does. If you need more modules, you can freely download them from the Drupal Modules official [...]

Displaying Time in Flash using Actionscript

The Date class in Actionscript along with its various methods helps us to retrieve date and time values (Local / GMT).
Create three Dynamic Textboxes for displaying the hours, minutes, seconds and name their variables as ch, cm, cs respectively.
Write the following Actionscript code in the Actions window (F9) as given below:
var dt, timeint;
dt = new [...]

History of Ajax Components

Ajax is the acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. However, rather than functioning as an acronym it better describes a technique for producing faster, more interactive, and usable web pages that don’t require re-loading every time a user changes a request. This is accomplished by increasing web page responsive-ness through the exchange of small pieces [...]

jQuery is a new type of JavaScript library.

jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.
“You start with 10 lines of jQuery that would have been 20 lines of tedious DOM JavaScript. By the [...]