Post pobrano z: PHPDevShell: Instant Back-End For PHP Apps.

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When creating a web application, if no CMS is used, creating a back-end for managing the system is usually required.

PHPDevShell is a modular, plugin-based "code management system and framework" that offers a ready-to-use administration interface which can be extended with your own codes.

It provides most of the popular features that an application requires like:

• user registration and management (with roles, groups an access rights)
• presenting system settings
• cronjob management
• navigation
• plugins
• templates
• and much more..

The project aims not to interfere with your system, rather, follows a simplistic approach to integrate with it.

PHPDevShell has many other features like a built-in mailing list manager and the ability to view logs for every action.

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Post pobrano z: Fixing FOUT (Flash Of Unstyled Type) With FOUT-B-Gone

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FOUT (Flash Of Unstyled Type) is the moment where web fonts appear unstyled for a short time just before loading @font-face (in FF 3.5/3.6 and IE 7-9). Once the web page is loaded, the viewer sees unstyled fonts turn into styled ones.

In order to fix this issue, FOUT-B-Gone can be a good solution. It is a script which hides elements with custom fonts assigned to them for a defined period of time (like 200 milliseconds).

During that period, the fonts will -probably/hopefully- be loaded and the end-user won't experience FOUT.

P.S. There is also a built-in function which helps detecting whether @font-face is supported or not.

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Post pobrano z: Avactis Giveaway – Winners Announced

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Avactis, an e-commerce application with lots of handy features, was running a giveaway of 3 owned licenses for their application to celebrate the launch of their hosted services and hosting bonuses.

Winners are selected today and announced at the bottom of this post.

If you are not one of the lucky winners and/or prefer not to host the application yourself, here is a snapshot of what Avactis offers with their new services:

First of all, the best thing about hosted services is: you know that the application is setup in the best possible way. So you make sure it functions correctly.

The second advantage is "not dealing with any hosting-related issues" as Avactis handles that in a pro and secure way with PCI compatible servers, daily backups and an experienced team.

In addition to those, the hosted services include free forever-support and updates (updates are handled by Avactis automatically).

And, until 28th of April, there are some bonuses offered:

• Standard plan, 1 month
  • Bonus: Free Setup
• Standard plan, 6 months pre-pay
  • Bonus: 3 extensions pre-installed for free* (worth $82.85)
• Standard plan, 1 year pre-pay
  • Bonus: SSL Certificate pre-installed for free (worth $149.00)
  • Bonus: 3 extensions pre-installed for free* (worth $82.85)
• Professional plan, 1 month
  • Bonus: Free Setup
• Professional plan, 6 months pre-pay
  • Bonus: SSL Certificate pre-installed for free (worth $149.00)
  • Bonus: 5 extensions pre-installed for free** (worth $118.75)

Simply, if you already tried the application and liked it, this can be the right time to get it. Otherwise, you can always give it a try for free and find out if the functionality fits your needs.

And, the winners

Here are the 3 winners of Avactis Owned licenses:

• gediminas (comment #322672)
• Jeff Szucs (comment #327078)
• Caner (comment #321414)

Congratulations to the winners and thanks very much to every WRD reader for joining the giveaway.

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Post pobrano z: A Bookmarklet To Find Perfect Fallback Fonts – FFFFALLBACK

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We are using new web fonts each day and need to pair them with standard fonts for a better use experience.

FFFFALLBACK is a bookmarklet which, once clicked, scans the web page, finds the web fonts used and creates an interface where you can easily try alternative fonts.

It lets you to instantly toggle between the original and fallback outputs or can show them both so you can better decide if your web page will look ok when no web fonts are displayed.

The project is the result of a very nice article, Type study: Choosing fallback fonts, which will probably end up in "you sticking stronger to the bookmarklet" : ).

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Post pobrano z: 247 Awesome & Free Hand-Drawn Icons

177DESIGNS, a talented web design and development company, is sharing a beautiful set of free hand-drawn icons.

The set consists of 247 items, all of them designed in the same style and comes as .PNG files.

There are 2 sizes in the download package: 32*32px and 128*128px.

This hand-drawn icon set has almost all the items a web app. can need from actions to media or devices.

It is also free to use them in both personal and commercial projects.

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Post pobrano z: Bricolage: A Full Featured & Perl-Powered CMS

Bricolage is an open-source and enterprise-class content management system that makes creating, managing and publishing content very easy.

It is built with Perl, uses MySQL or PostgreSQL for storing data and has a powerful templating system (Mason, Template Toolkit, or PHP).

With the help of this templating system and the flexibility offered on every step, it is possible to build any type of websites.

Bricolage has a group and permission based user management system that eases working as a team where some users can be editors, others being designers, etc.

Besides many other standard CMS features, there is a very handy and built-in alert system which can be setup for many events like an article going online, being edited, etc. to get notified instantly.

Also, there is a well-documented API which enables you to pull and push any type of data from the system.

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Post pobrano z: jQuery-ahm: One-Line Ajax Requests

jQuery-ahm is a tiny (~1kb) jQuery plugin which enables us to create Ajax requests with a smaller code piece.

It is actually a wrapper around the popular $.ajax method and brings a different way of handling callbacks.

Rather than creating custom callbacks for every Ajax request, jQuery-ahm lets the back-end define Ajax callbacks (handled automatically).

Here is an example where all the callback is handled on the server-side:

<?php
$response = array(
    // $("#animate").fadeOut("slow").delay("1000").slideDown("fast")
    "#animate/fadeOut"   => "slow",
    "#animate/delay"     => "1000",
    "#animate/slideDown" => "fast",
);
echo json_encode($response);
?>

The bad part is, you move the front-end code and functionality to the server-side. This is not a preferred method for many designers/developers and it is mostly difficult if the front and back-end developers are different persons.

And the nice part is, size of the front-end code can be decreased seriously, specially for websites with lots of Ajax interactions and you get lots of flexibility in managing the callbacks.

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Post pobrano z: Slider Kit – Multiple Slideshow Types In One jQuery Plugin

Slider Kit is a very flexible jQuery plugin that enables us to create almost any type of slideshows like photo galleries, news sliders, carousels and more.

It has support for both horizontal + vertical sliders and items can be navigated via buttons, mousewheel, image click or keyboard.

There are lots of options provided like auto-start being on/off, animation types, navigation being an infinite loop or not, starting position of the slideshow and much more.

The complete skin of the slideshows can be customized with CSS and the plugin weights only ~8kb (minified).

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Post pobrano z: Instantly Prefix CSS3 Code – prefixMyCSS

Few days ago, a post at WRD was sharing CSSPrefixer, a web-based tool which can analyze CSS files and auto-generate vendor-prefixes.

Here is a new option: prefixMyCSS, again a free tool which can re-format your CSS file by adding the vendor-prefixes for the CSS3 properties.

It can also remove any comments and generate the file within a single line for a smaller size.

On the other hand, it currently lacks of a command-line tool for a possible IDE-integration.

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Post pobrano z: ChocolateChip-UI: A Mobile Web App Framework

ChocolateChip-UI is a mobile web app development framework that targets WebKit engines or, simply, iOS.

The framework provides fully functional widgets and controls right out of the box which know how to behave so you can focus only on providing the data.

A new concept is introduced by the framework: WAML (Web App Markup Language) which is designed for creating mobile web apps and uses special tags + attributes to clearly define all the parts (rather than divs and spans) for a faster development.

ChocolateChip-UI has most of the elements we get used from iOS like the buttons, tab bar, lists, slider and more.

The framework is very well-documented, provides snippets for the basics and definitely a must-bookmark for iOS web app development.

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