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FlyJSONP – A JavaScript Library For Cross-Domain GET & POST Requests

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FlyJSONP is a JavaScript library for making cross-domain GET and POST requests to services that support JSONP, and get a JSON response.

The library is easy-to-use, there is nothing complicated, very lightweight (1.13kb gzipped) and doesn't require any other JS frameworks.

FlyJSONP

It passes the POST requests through Yahoo's YQL and provides a complete control over the callback parameter name for GET requests.

There is an online playground provided for giving the library a try.

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Twitter Bootstrap – A CSS Toolkit By Twitter

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Twitter Bootstrap is a toolkit created by Twitter for kickstarting CSS when developing websites.

It is built with Less and consists of base CSS + HTML for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation, and some more.

The grid provided is 940px wide 16-column and, for the layouts, there are solutions for both fixed + fluid ones.

Twitter Bootstrap

Twitter Bootstrap's HTML elements have a plain-yet-elegant style where form inputs get a nice box-shadow on focus or table rows being highlighted.

The kit also includes other stuff like popovers, alerts, tabs and pagination which all use semantic XHTML.

It is actually built with Preboot, an open-source pack of mixins and variables to be used with Less and, for anyone willing to use it with Less rather than the static CSS, a detailed how-to is provided.

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State of the Word

This has been an exciting year for WordPress. We’ve grown to power 14.7% of the top million websites in the world, up from 8.5%, and the latest data show 22 out of every 100 new active domains in the US are running WordPress.

We also conducted our first ever user and developer survey, which got over 18,000 responses from all over the world:

We found a few interesting tidbits from the survey responses already, including that 6,800 self-employed respondents were responsible for over 170,000 sites personally, and charged a median hourly rate of $50. In tough economic times, it’s heartening to see Open Source creating so many jobs. (If each site took only 3 hours to make, that’s $29.5M of work at the average hourly rate.)

I talk about this data, and much more, in my State of the Word address which you can watch here:

We know there’s more good stuff hidden in there and we’re open sourcing and releasing the raw information behind it. If you’re a researcher and would like to dig into the anonymized survey data yourself, you can grab it here. (Careful, it’s a 9MB CSV.)

There has never been a better time to be part of the WordPress community, and I want to thank each and every one of you for making it such a wonderful place to be. Now it’s time to get back to work, there’s still 85.3% of the web that needs help. :)

JavaScript-Powered Code Editor – Ace

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Ace is an open source, standalone and web-based code editor that focuses on providing a similar or better experience with desktop-based ones.

It is actually developed for the well-known Cloud9 IDE and can be integrated into any web page easily.

Ace Editor

The editor's syntax highlighting works with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, JSON, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, etc..

There is support for auto indent/outdent, completely customizable key bindings ad theming.

Users can perform search/replace operations with regular expressions besides the standard method, toggle between soft tabs + real tabs and much more.

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Golden Grid System – A Base For Creating Responsive Designs

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Golden Grid System is a fluid-width grid system which functions as a starting point for building responsive websites.

It splits the screen into 18 even columns where two of them are used as outer margins, leaving 16 columns for use in design. And, they can be converted (or folded) into 8 columns or 4 columns.

The folding process is accomplished by media queries and enables the website to serve good-looking pages to screens from 240 to 2560 pixels.

Golden Grid System

Normally, responsive grids using gutters proportional to the screen can display the content like "it's being squeezed" once the screen width changes. Golden Grid System has elastic gutters which always stay in proportion to the content.

The resource also has handy little script named Golden Gridlet, which helps overlaying the grid and a baseline grid of 1.5em onto the page for visually checking that everything lines up properly.

P.S. It is built by the developer of the popular Less Framework.

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Cryptocat – Open Source App For Encrypted & Private Chats

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Cryptocat is an open source and web-based chat application that focuses on making sure that the communication is encrypted and private.

It is built with PHP and works with a single file besides the static files (CSS, JS and images) used.

The interface is simple-yet-nice and messages are encrypted with AES-256 using crypto.js library.

Cryptocat - Open Source Encrypted Chat

For a private group communication inside a chat room with other users, a passkey (used by all of the group) comes to the rescue.

Also, for paranoid users, there is Cryptocat Verifier, a Chrome extension which verifies that your Cryptocat session is not serving you modified JavaScript code.

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HybridAuth – A PHP Library For Authenticating With Social Services

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HybridAuth is an open source PHP library for authenticating through multiple social services and ID providers.

The services supported include OpenID,Facebook, LinkedIn, Google,Twitter, Windows Live, Foursquare, Vimeo, Yahoo, PayPal and more.

It can be integrated easily into existing websites by inserting a file and few lines to the sign-in/up pages.

HybridAuth - PHP Social Sign-in Library

Once authenticated, HybridAuth provides the connected user profile's in a rich, simple and standardized structure across all the social APIs.

And, besides authentication, the library enables us to interact with the social API client that the users are connected to.

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SohoOS – All Tools For Managing A Small Business (And.. For Free)

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Whether you are a freelancer or a small/big team, using tools to keep biz-related data under control is usually a good idea for everyone.

SohoOS is an all-in-one application that comes with lots of features for managing a business online.

It is free-to-use and consists of tools like project, document, customers and contact management, communication, invoicing, and more.

Once registered, a friendly dashboard that displays the latest activities, quick links, notes and activities welcomes you (this page can easily become the start page for many users).

SohoOS

Contacts

The first thing would be adding your contacts: contacts, vendors, clients and leads as many other components of the app work integrated with them. They can be imported from the contacts in your e-mail service or from a .CSV file.

For the leads, besides adding them manually, they can be collected with a "contact form widget (named LeadsWidget)" that can be embedded into any web page.

Projects

Any number of projects can be created, tasks and milestones with deadlines can be defined and each of them can be assigned to users.

Users can also attach documents for the project and a progress chart helps viewing if things are performing all ok.

Invoicing & Sales Tools

SohoOS has the features for creating invoices (with a custom look), charging your clients and tracking the process.

Once an invoice is generated, optionally, the payment can be collected by the platform as well via PayPal or credit card (and no merchant account is needed).

Also, you can define the products/services of the business and create/send quotes, sales and purchase orders accordingly.

SohoOS

Documents

For a multi-user environment, managing documents can be hard as they should be reachable by everyone or only some users but should be kept in the same place for an easier access, back up, etc.

The documents module accomplishes all these with ease. Add as much documents as you want to the system, assign them to users or groups and even decide whether they should be available internally or externally.

Communication

This is a premium feature of SohoOS but pretty impressive.

Using the platform, you can make calls, send SMSs, emails and even faxes for a good price by just purchasing credits.

Also, a built-in email client keeps you focused by displaying any incoming e-mails from a given account.

Other Features

Besides these core features, SohoOS offers more like offering ways for improving the visibility of a business by letting them create a landing-page and collect leads or with the "Freelance Area" where businesses can post and get projects.

All sound good? Then you can give this complete and free business management tool a try.

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Convert Websites Into Mobile Quickly: Mobilize.js

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Mobilize.js is a HTML5-JavaScript framework for creating mobile websites from any standard sites quickly and easily.

The idea behind the framework is; rather than serving a totally different mobile web page, loading and using only the needed parts and displaying them inside a mobile theme (jQuery Mobile's default theme).

Mobilize.js can be used on every website, however, for WordPress and Sphinx users, there are plug 'n' play solutions provided.

It is open source and can be hosted under the website or a free-to-use CDN-hosted version is offered too.

Mobilize.js

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