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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ChiliProject – A Ruby on Rails Project Management System

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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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Flotr2 – An HTML5 charts and graphs library

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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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Hovercard – A jQuery plugin to display inline info

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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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Joomla! 2.5 Released with Extra Features

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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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Sharrre – Social Media Sharing Widgets Made Easy

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Along with the voting buttons, SeeMeLikeMe also comes with “insight” data collection and analytics. The insight data displays referring URLs and will plot a graph that shows traffic over time. It also includes a geographic map that allows you to pinpoint where most traffic originates.

The script is smart enough to limit voting to one vote per visitor based on their IP address. All voting and referral information is stored in a mySQL database. The only limitation is that at this point, there’s no interface to manage voting, but it’s unlikely you’ll need this.

You can find similar rating and voting scripts in our PHP Polls & Voting category.

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SeeMeLikeMe – A free user voting script a la YouTube

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January

1. The Eclipse Foundation released Orion, a browser-based web development editor that allows code editing on the cloud. As of today, Orion is available as either a hosted solution or you can download and run it on your own machine.
2. Joomla went through a major upgrade with its 1.6 release. This new version supports the same user-friendly features but is packed with more enterprise-level power under the hood.
3. Microsoft began shipping its free Web development toolset dubbed WebMatrix, that aims to provide all of the components necessary to quickly build, run and manage web sites. WebMatrix includes IIS Developer Express, ASP.NET and SQL Server Compact Edition.

February

1. Amazon S3 Storage expanded its services to allow hosting of complete static web sites versus just static files.
2. Zend Technologies announced the general availability of its Zend Server 5.0 PHP Web application server featuring Code Tracking.

March

1. Adobe released Wallaby, an experimental application that attempts to convert Flash files like animation, banners into HTML5.
2. Python 3.2 was released with a heavy focus on multithreading and concurrency. Additionally, this release offered a stable ABI so that developers who build for version 3.2 will also be assured that their modules will be compatible with future releases.
3. Google updated its Page Speed tool by converting it from a Firefox extension to an online version. Page Speed offers webmasters an easy way to assess Web page performance analysis data and get suggestions on making pages faster.

April

1. Zend Technologies and Adobe Systems today announced Flash Builder 4.5 for PHP, which enables developers to use PHP and Flash development skills to build rich Internet applications for mobile, Web, and desktop platforms.
2. Sencha, the company behind Ext JS, released Ext JS 4 that leverages plug-in-free charting technologies like SVG and VML instead of Flash.

May

1. A major upgrade to JQuery JavaScript framework was released in May which included a rewrite of the Attribute module as well as several performance improvements.
2. Amazon unveiled a new cloud service based on Oracle database technology providing an easy way to manage common database administration tasks, including provisioning, backups, software patching, monitoring and hardware scaling.
3. A new version of Perl (version 5.14) was released in that month, providing users of the open source language with improved Unicode, IPv6 and exception handling.
4. Opera released DragonFly, a Firebug-like extension that provides development and debugging tool integrated its browser. DragonFly works with both desktop and mobile Opera versions.

June

1. WordPress 3.2 was released boosting over 400 enhancements including new user and developer features, performance improvement as well as addressing several bug fixes.
2. eBay purchased Magento, the open source e-commerce platform, to enhance its tools for online store developers.
3. Opa, a new open source language for writing web application was unveiled. Its aim is to bridge programming language, web server, database and compiler together to provide a great experience for web developers.

July

1. Google Code added support for Git version control system in an attempt to compete with GitHub.
2. Oracle released Java SE 7, a major update to the programming language in more than 5 years.

August

1. Firefox 6 was released which included some great web development tools. It introduced Scratchpad, a new JavaScript editor that’s well worth checking out, and the Web Console panel has also been improved.
2. Adobe has released a preview version of a new HTML animation tool dubbed Edge. Together with Wallaby, Adobe’s Flash-to-HTML conversion app, Edge is part of Adobe’s push to get away from Flash.
3. Ruby on Rails 3.1 was released adding new features like jQuery support and speedier JavaScript execution for faster page rendering.

September

1. PostgreSQL 9.1 was rolled out and delivered several features which users have been requesting for years, removing roadblocks to deploying new or ported applications on PostgreSQL.

October

1. Internet Explorer’s share of global browser usage dropped below 50 percent for the first time in more than a decade. This diminishing share (49.6%) reflects IE’s near absence from the realms of mobile and tablet, which in October made up 6% of web traffic.
2. Google unveiled a new programming language for the web named “Dart,” aimed at being a replacement for JavaScript. Dart’s purpose is to offer better performance, easier scaling, and more security than Java or JavaScript.
3. Zend announced PHPcloud, a new service to bring PHP to the cloud. Built on the top of Amazon, it provides developers with an application platform.

November

1. Adobe, in its plan to refocus its efforts on HTML5, has open sourced the Flex SDK to the Apache Software Foundation. This means that Adobe is no longer the sole guiding force behind Flex.
2. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released the first draft of a new web standard aimed at improving online privacy. The W3C’s new Standard for Online Privacy is a set of tools that will ultimately enable your browser to stop sites from tracking your every move on the web.
3. Mozilla released Popcorn.js, a set of JavaScript and HTML5 code that makes it easier to build more interactive video experience on the Web. Popcorn.js utilizes HTML5 video features and currently works best in Firefox and Chrome.

December

1. Mozilla released Firefox 9.0 that is meant to be faster and consume less memory than previous releases. The JavaScript engine of Firefox has also been updated to allow complex JavaScript websites to run faster.
2. Facebook released its HipHop Virtual Machine that provides a way to improve PHP rendering by up to 60% faster all the while using 90% less memory.
3. eBay launched a Web query language called ql.io to simplify the process of querying a Web service for data.

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The 2011 Web Development Year in Review

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Dart addresses some of the limitations of JavaScript, especially in terms of new static types, better object-oriented support, and a language that is highly optimized for mobile devices.

According to a leaked internal memo, Google programmers designed Dart “to replace JavaScript as the lingua franca of Web development.” The same memo describes how JavaScript has become a bottleneck for evolution and that the best approach was simply to start a new language from scratch.

Currently Dart code can only be executed from a virtual machine or on top of a JavaScript engine by using a compiler to translate Dart code to JavaScript. Google, however, does have plans to have Dart supported natively by Google Chrome and is also working with other browser developers to integrate a built-in Dart engine.

It will be interesting to see the adoption rate of Dart by the development community. As with all other attempts from Google to introduce new standards (like the recent WebP image format), I have to admit that I am very skeptical. What is your take on Dart – is it something you plan on investigating further or using?

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Google launches Dart, a JavaScript alternative

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This library provides several database inspired functions like CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations as well as support for sorting, filtering, and even querying against the client-side collection of data. TaffyDB is also easy to extend with custom functions, allowing you to further manipulate the “records.”

The language construct of TaffyDB is extremely simple to use. For example, to update a “status” column in your database for certain records that match the keyword “foo,” you would use something like:

//Update records “status” column for entries that matches “foo”
db(“foo”).update({status:”Active”});

By pre-fetching a chunk of data (maybe on the fly or through AJAX and JSON), you can easily manipulate those on the client-side without having to create a highly data-intensive application. This is going to save a lot of resources and eliminate delays as opposed to using multiple AJAX calls to manipulate database records.

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TaffyDB — The JavaScript Database for Your Browser

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PCSS truly extends the concept of shorthand CSS through several built-in features like constants that allow you to define long CSS definitions with short words or even variables to hold any type of data.  You can also use pre-defined constants and create functions or nested classes. There’s even an @font-face shortcut with server-side browser detection for slimmer resulting code. Best of all, PCSS will minify your CSS when returning it to the browser.

To install and use PCSS, you will need a PHP5 enabled server. For more information and usage examples, please visit pcss.wiq.com.br

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PCSS – where CSS meets PHP

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