jQuick - Quick Tag Creator for JQuery
jQuick is a quick tag creator for jQuery written by Francesco Sullo. “During the development of the first releases of PassPack, I adopted Easy DOM Creation by Michael Geary to quickly manage the DOM elements. But, in january, with the beta4 version of PassPack I needed to overcome Michael’s library’s limits (due to the compatibility with Prototype). So I developed jQuick. I hope you find it useful.”
Website: http://jquick.sullof.com/jquick/
Using jQuery with Ruby on Rails
“By default, Rails comes packed with the Prototype javascript library and the effects library, Scriptaculous. While this is all well and good sometimes you want a change. I personally prefer jQuery to prototype. I don
AjaxCRUD - Easy Database Connection Class
AjaxCRUD is an open-source PHP API which allows you to connect to a mySQL database and easily perform the necessary CRUD operations (create, read, update, & delete rows). This PHP class allows you to get the access you need without spending the time and energy on lengthy coding.
Website: http://www.ajaxcrud.com/
History Flow – Visualizing the Editing History of Wikipedia
“History Flow is a tool for visualizing dynamic, evolving documents and the interactions of multiple collaborating authors. In its current implementation, history flow is being used to visualize the evolutionary history of wiki* pages on Wikipedia.rn“Visit the website
The Sheep Market
While this isn’t a new project it is one worth looking at. “The sheep market is a collection of 10,000 sheep created by workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Each worker was paid $.02 (US) to draw a sheep facing left.” You can also purchase the sheep through the site or email them to a friend. I’m not sure if any were actually sold but the idea of art and commerce is always a nice idea. The project was created by Aeron Koblin in 2006 with flash. “
White Spectrum – Comments Visualization
The BBC has created a unique way to visualize comments on central question. In this case the question was, (Are white working class people ingored in Britain?). As they state, “spectrum is a different way of presenting a BBC News Have Your Say debate. It allows you to investigate the dabate around BBC 2′s White Season by associating different comments by emotion, location and similarity”. They state in the FAQ that the data is not an opinion poll and is not statistically valid, however, it is a visual way to get an impression of the debate. I enjoyed playing with the filters and clicking on the comments. The key was easy to understand and always there when you need it. The only thing I wish the visualization had was a way to tell which comments I had already clicked …
Travel Time Tube Map
“Click on or select from the dropdown a station to see the London Underground map reorganise around the times of travel from that station. Shortest paths are used to place the other stations – radius is proportional to time to travel, and angle should be correct for as-the-crow-flies direction on a map. The concentric circles are at 10 minute intervals. Press ‘g’ to get back to the geographical tube map.” This project was created by Tom Carden with the Processing Visualization Language.”
JavaScriptMVC - Open Source Javascript Framework
JavaScriptMVC is a framework that brings methods to the madness of JavaScript development. It guides you to successfully completed projects by promoting best practices, maintainability, and convention over configuration.
Website: http://javascriptmvc.com/index.html
Make an Adobe AIR app in Five Minutes
“The Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) is quite a hot topic among web developers. And well it might be! With AIR, Adobe’s new desktop-based web application system, desktop applications can now be built with the technologies web developers have been using for years–plain old HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to do exactly that: build a simple web-based application for the desktop with Adobe AIR.”
Website: http://www.sitepoint.com/article/adobe-air-todo-list-5-minutes
Code_Swarm – Organic Software Visualization
This is a visualization created by Michael Ogawa and shows the development of software over time. I’ve often wondered how much work went in to creating something like Apache. This visualizations shows you all of the code changes that go into large scale software. Michael used the processing visualization language to create this project. This is how it works, “This visualization, called code_swarm, shows the history of commits in a software project. A commit happens when a developer makes changes to the code or documents and transfers them into the central project repository. Both developers and files are represented as moving elements. When a developer commits a file, it lights up and flies towards that developer. Files are colored according to their purpose, such as whether they are source code or a document. If files or developers have …