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Online communication is a part of every designer/developer. With our friends, customers or colleagues, chats are usually the fastest and easiest way of communication.
Sometimes, the information we exchange online can be critical like passwords or "details of a project" and we want to make sure that it is private.
PrivyTalks is a free, simple and security-focused chat application that encrypts and decrypts the communication with RSA on the client-side.
Usage is pretty straightforward; once the room is created, the chat link is shared among two partners and the communication begins.
And, to make sure that there is no 3rd party sniffing the communication, fingerprints are created for each side, so they can exchange this information via another channel (like e-mail or SMS) and check if the connected user is the one that they are expecting.
That may sound paranoid but I'm sure every user had moments on worrying "what would happen if that info was leaked out" (and PrivyTalks is a simple + strong solution for the case).
The fast and real-time communication engine is built with Socket.io and the application works in all major browsers including mobile.
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Cabin is a CSS framework which comes with a lightweight core and can be extended easily once needed.
The core CSS file includes the styles that are needed by the majority of the websites: reset, typography and navigation.
Styles for grids (12 or 16, fixed and fluid), tables, forms, media queries or social media messages are all provided as extensions.
And, Cabin is compatible with all major browsers (by leaving IE6 in the past).
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Each year, members of the web community from around the world submit session proposals to the South by Southwest Interactive conference, an event that played a role in the birth of WordPress. We head to Austin every year, do a BBQ or throw a party, but despite the fact that almost 15% of the web is powered by WordPress, there aren’t many sessions related to WordPress on the schedule. This year, more than 3200 proposals are competing for about 350 slots, and who has time to read through, vote, and comment on 3200 proposals? Out of those 3200+ proposals, only 8 relate to WordPress! I thought it would be handy to post a guide to the WordPressy proposals for SXSWi 2012, so that if you would like to check them out and vote on them it woud be fast and easy. Leaving a comment in addition to your thumbs up/down vote helps the staff and advisory board know which sessions are likely to have an interested audience, so make sure to leave comments on the sessions you think would be cool (remember, they also publish the podcasts afterward). Voting ends in about 24 hours, so if you want to weigh in, now’s the time. Thanks for helping spread the word!
WordPress-specific Sessions
This list is based on searching for “WordPress” in proposal titles, descriptions, and tags. Clicking the proposal title will take you to that page in the SXSW PanelPicker, where you can vote and comment. Names that are linked go to those people’s WordPress.org profiles.
Mark Jaquith – WordPress Lead Developer
Byrne Reese – Endevver
These days people tend to pit us against Drupal rather than Movable Type, but looking back at the early rivalry and learning from the positive and negative aspects of it would be cool as we position ourselves in competition with new platforms. I like seeing Mark present at conferences, he always prepares well and does a good job. Though I’m guessing these guys will be all friendly and collaborative, I might take a nostalgia hit and imagine them in a fistfight just to liven things up. 
Jane Wells – WordPress User Experience Lead
Disclosure: This is me! Balancing the desire for truly open and participatory design processes against the often more efficient and consistent results of a more curated design method is something we’ve been working on for the past year or so in WordPress core. I’d use the design process for several recent core features (like the UI refresh and internal linking) to illustrate the issues we’ve faced and the results we’ve achieved.
John James Jacoby – BuddyPress Lead Developer
J-trip (as John James Jacoby is fondly known by many in the community) is the lead dev for BuddyPress and the new bbPress plugin. He’s proposing a panel discussion among reps from several open source social network platforms. It’s always cool hearing more about BuddyPress, but it would be even cooler to figure out how it fits in with and/or stacks up against other platforms.
Nikolay Bachiyski – WordPress Core Developer, GlotPress Lead Developer
Lori McLeese – Automattic
This one isn’t about WordPress per se, though using WordPress as a communication tool is one of the topics and Automattic is obviously a WordPress-based business. The main reason I think people should vote for this session is because Nikolay, core committing developer for internationalization and lead developer of GlotPress, our translation tool, is an awesome speaker. He is hysterically funny when he presents. I would bet money this presentation will involve a bear.
Grant Norwood – Michael & Susan Dell Foundation
When Mark Jaquith says a presentation on security and deployment is on his short list, I’m impressed. (He said it in the comments on the proposal.)
David Tufts – kickpress.org
Obviously a hot topic in the community right now, seems like a no-brainer to choose.
Jase Wilson – Luminopolis
There was a presentation at WordCamp San Francisco this month on moving a news site from Drupal to WordPress. More and more the question comes up of which tool is best for various situations and requirements. And obviously getting government to use more open source software would be a cost-saver in these tough economic times.
Glenn Todd – Dvize Creative
Live walkthroughs are always fun, and help prove to the uninitiated how easy WordPress can be.
So: go vote on these session proposals and help spread the WordPress love. If you know of any WordPress-related proposals that didn’t come up in my search, let me know in a comment and I’ll update this post. Thanks, and maybe we’ll see you in Austin in March!
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The increasing variety and usage of device/screen types (cell phone, smart phone, tablet, desktop..) urge the need for serving web content accordingly.
Adaptive Images is a solution for delivering browser-size-specific images for any device.. automatically.
It is JavaScript-PHP-powered where a lightweight JS file detects the browser size and the PHP file resizes the images on the web page. And, all this happens with the help of a .htaccess rule which redirects any requests for .JPG, .GIF or .PNG files to the PHP image processor file.
Adaptive Images is a plug 'n' play resource which can be easily integrated into any PHP website.
There is a built-in caching system for minimizing each image only once for each size.
Also, several options for customization exist including "array of browser-image sizes", .JPG quality and more.
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JPEGmini is a free-to-use online service for compressing JPEG files up to 80% without any perceivable loss.
It uses a new/patent pending technology, works only on JPEG files and generates JPEG files again as the output.
The performance reaches the top when the images are high quality photos and edited-resized-processed images gets minor improvements (but still good).
Currently, it is available only as a web-based service (no command-line, API, etc.) and although it is possible to compress images with no sign-up, a free account comes with features like bulk upload and unlimited usage.
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glfx.js is a JavaScript library for applying effects to images using WebGL.
The library has a wide set of built-in-filters including brightness/contrast, curves, sepia, hue/saturation, noise, lens blur, tilt shift, hexagonal pixelate and much more.
glfx.js has 3 parts:
- texture: a raw source of image data (created from an <img> tag)
- filter: an image effect (represents one or more WebGL shaders)
- canvas: an image buffer that stores the results (a WebGL <canvas> tag)
Every filter comes with different variables that can be configured to create custom effects.
Although WebGL is supported by most modern browsers, not by all of them yet (check if your browser supports it).
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If you plan on writing your own compiler or even creating your own programming language, check out the latest
addition to the Free Compiler Construction Tools: Lexers, Parser Generators
and Optimizers page. This newest one is a parser generator that creates an object oriented parse tree, but if that's
not what you want, there are 30 free compiler construction tools on that page that you can choose from.
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Design Cocktail, a regularly updated kit of creative design resources (which was featured previously at WRD) is giving away 5 bundles to WebResourcesDepot readers.
The 6th version of the bundle includes $946 worth of items and can be purchased for only $39.
What is in the bundle?
Design Cocktail 6 has design resources from vector elements to Photoshop brushes, websites templates and much more. Here is the full list:
- Giga vector pack 1
- Vector summer mega pack
- 20 Photoshop brushes
- Simplio business HTML template
- Famous cities mega pack
- Vectorious 3 months subscription
- Wp optimizer plugin
- Design TNT 1 month subscription
- 20 t-shirt designs
- Web sliders PSD kit
- WP logger plugin
- Doctor vector set
- Photoshop reflection action
- Ratings PSD kit
The kit is licensed as "royalty free extended", meaning that you can use the assets to build sites for your clients without your clients having to purchase their own subscription.
How to win one of the bundles?
There are 5 bundles being given away. Just comment to this post and the winners will be selected randomly with the query below on 6 September 2011 (1 week later).
SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=2435 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' GROUP BY comment_author_email ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 5
Good luck!
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Cryptico.js is an easy-to-use JavaScript library for encrypting text on the client-side.
It has support for RSA + AES methods and the text can be encrypted with any given bit length (228, 1024, etc.).
The content is encrypted with a public key and it can only be decrypted with that key (which makes sense if the recipient already has that information).
Cryptico.js doesn't require any JS frameworks to function and it is well-documented.
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Yioop! is an open source search engine built with PHP and uses MySQL or SQLite for storing the data.
It can be configured to crawl any page it finds by following links or limited to any given number of URLs and used as an in-site search engine (like Google Custom Search).
A standard setup can crawl and index millions of pages per day and this number can be increased by running more crawlers (distributed setup is possible as well).
There is support for indexing many file types including HTML, DOC, PNG, JPG, GIF, XML, sitemaps, RSS and much more.
Also, the system can be controlled completely from a web-based administration interface.
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