Free resources for quickly developing AJAX applications

In this post I want to suggest you some free resources which allow developers to quickly build and mantain powerful and advanced AJAX web applications. In this list you can find advanced grid features, calendars, tab-strip and a lot of other interesting components to develop and enrich your AJAX web applications.


DHTML eXtensions
dhtml eXtension provides a set of cross-browser DHTML components for building advanced and powerful Ajax-based web interfaces. It includes advanced grids, trees, color picker, calendar, editor, combo box, advanced layout features and a lot of other interesting components to enrich your web applications. You can download the standard edition for free.

Google Web Toolkit
Writing web apps today is a tedious and error-prone process. Developers can spend 90% of their time working around browser quirks. In addition, building, reusing, and maintaining large JavaScript code bases and AJAX components can be difficult and fragile. Google Web Toolkit (GWT) eases this burden by allowing developers to quickly build and maintain complex yet highly performant JavaScript front-end applications in the Java programming language.

Nitobi Complete UI
Nitobi Complete UI is an open source ajax components for building Ajax-powered Web user interfaces that improves user experiences for any Web 2.0 application. It include a powerful Ajax datagrid, with Excel copy and paste, in-place cell editing, and live scrolling; an Ajax-powered tab-strip component with native support for other Nitobi components, client-side statefulness, and skinnability; a full featured Calendar component with support for multi-month view, easy localization, databound events, and more.

Clean-Ajax
Clean-Ajax is an open source engine for AJAX, that provides a high level interface to work with the AJAX technology. It can be plugged in any page or DHTML framework because it was designed in conformation with the separation of concerns principle, keeping focus on AJAX issues. It's simple to install, to configure and to use;

SmartClient
SmartClient is globally deployed in thousands of enterprises, and has been incorporated as a core technology in major shipping products since 2002. SmartClient provides a zero-install DHTML/Ajax client engine, rich user interface components and services, client-server databinding systems. All components can be easily embedded in existing applications: grids, forms, trees, dialogs, wizards and other components can be added without making architectural changes.

Ample SDK
Ample SDK is a unique piece of software that runs transparently in the layer between web browser and your application. While running it provides the Logic of your application with standard cross-browser access to the User Interface. Ample Runtime, UI languages and programming model are all based on open standards. Thus a web-developer doesn't need to learn any new technologies or proprietary APIs. He can simply keep using already learnt JavaScript language, DOM, CSS, XML, XHTML and other technologies and standards.

Sigma Visual Ajax GUI Builder
Sigma visual builder is a web based tool for AJAX RIA application UI rapid design and involved scripts programming.You can do everything by drag & drop with a significant development time reduction. It provides more than 40 common components, including Tabs, Dialog, TreeGrid, TimeLine and many other web GUI components.It's also compatible with jQuery, prototype, mootools and other javascript frameworks.

SAJAX
Sajax is an open source tool to make programming websites using the Ajax framework as easy as possible. Sajax makes it easy to call PHP, Perl or Python functions from your webpages via JavaScript without performing a browser refresh. The toolkit does 99% of the work for you so you have no excuse to not use it.

ZK - Direct Ria
ZK is the most proven Ajax + Mobile framework designed to maximize enterprises operation efficiency and minimize the development cost. With groundbreaking Direct RIA architecture, ZK simplifies and speeds the creation, deployment and maintenance of rich Internet applications.

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10 High resolution relaxing wallpapers for your desktop

Are you looking for beautiful high resolution wallpapers for your desktop? Take a look at this collection of my preferred relaxing wallpapers from InterfaceLift.com

InterfaceLift.com is a great resource to find high resolutions wallpapers, themes and icons.

1. The Salt Desert "Salar The Uyun" in Bolivia

By Joel Antunes

Description: "This is a beautiful picture taken by NIR, a good friend of mine. I made some edits on it to make it perfect. It looks like is a lake but isn't!"
Download this wallpaper

2. All That Is Left

By BEPhotographic

Description: "All that is left of the mighty Hamelin Bay jetty."
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3. First of May

By panemoy

Description: "One of my favorite photos, game of shadows and light. Vojvodina, Serbia..."
Download this wallpaper

4. Panoptic

By NaOH

Description: "I took this before rushing off to school one morning. I almost (almost!) skipped class to keep shooting, but I got what I was looking for so I suppose there wasn't any point. Nikon D300 and AF-S 18-200 VR."
Download this wallpaper

5. Smooth Evening

By Joel Antunes

Description: "This was taken after sunset. The blue cool color after the sunset was amazing and the clouds were moving quite fast, time to get a shot! I composed, breaking the rules! I targeted this "pier" which i guess is used by the fisherman at night."
Download this wallpaper

6. Durdle Door, Jurassic Icon, Dorset

By Joel Antunes

Description: "This is my favorite landscape at the moment, and I'm exclusively sharing it with you, Enjoy."
Download this wallpaper

7. Anse Source d'Agent

By Amecke

Description: "Seychelles."
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8. Auckland Harbour Bridge

By Chris Gin

Description: "Auckland Harbour Bridge at night."
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9. Chicago Skyline

By benisntfunny

Description: "The Chicago Skyline from North Avenue Beach."
Download this wallpaper

10. El Capitan

By matt mosher

Description: "Words really can't describe. You just have to go there."
Download this wallpaper

The Woork Handbook

The Woork Handbook is a free eBook about CSS, HTML, Ajax, web programming, Mootools, Scriptaculous and other topics about web design... directly from Woork!

Ok friends... finally a first preview of "The Woork Handbook" is ready to be released. This book is a miscellanea of articles I wrote on my blog in the past year. During the period form January to December 2008 “Woork” has been visited from over 4 millions visitors and I received a lot of requests to distribute a printable version of its contents. In the past days I worked hard to prepare a first version of this handbook and distribute it for free.

Download the Woork Handbook Now!
It's Free! (Current Version 0.1)

...and Subscribe to my Feeds to stay informed about updates.

The book contains articles with code sections, images, illustrations and links to original contents on woork. How I said isn't a structured book! but a printable version of Woork!

The Woork Handbook has been selected on Scribd as a featured document.

Featured Documents are documents that our editors have deemed to be high quality, and adds significant value to Scribd's collection of documents.

Screenshots

These are some screenshots of the book:

1. Book cover and presentation



2. Internal pages



3. Internal pages

Please, take a mind these points:

- english is not my primary language;
- all content it’s a brutal copy and paste from my blog;
- I’ll update periodically this book with new content.

Read this eBook on-line

The Woork Handbook

I hope you’ll find this handbook (with all his limits...) useful. You can print it on A4 format page (2 pages for each facade).

Every suggestions will be appreaciated.

All the best.

10 Beautiful icons set for web developers and designers

This post contains a collection of 10 beautiful and very popular icons set useful to be used in your web applications or your websites.

1. Web development icons Download
Web development icons is a set with 60 free icons in web 2.0 style (24x24). These icons are free to use in any kind of project unlimited times.

2. Function free icon set Download
A great collection designed by Liam McKay. All icons are free for personal non-commercial use:

3. Pixelicious Download
150 beautiful pixel icons designed by PixelResort:

4. Social Web Button Download
Another great collection of social icons set provided from WebFruits:

5. Sweetie Pack Download
Sweetie Pack is a popular clean and beautiful icons set with other 100 icons. I suggest you to read this post. CSS Message Box collection with sweetie pack:

6. FeedIcons Download
This is a beautiful icon set feed

7. Mini Icons Download
Super mini icons set for web applications designed by FamFamFam:

8. Tango Icons Set Download
The Tango icon library contains a basic set of icons for the most common usage. To make it easier for a developer to find an appropriate icon for their application a number of aids are there to help.

9. Monofactor Download
Monofactor is a beautifu set contains 25 scalable Illustrator format icons:

10. Aquaticus Social Icons Download
Aquaticus is a beautiful social icons set designed by Jwoloh (60x60, 48x48, 24x24, 16x16):

If you have other icons set to suggest add a comment with the related link!

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5 Photoshop and Illustrator brushes set for web designer

This collection includes over 60 brushes: pencil lines, grunge Polaroid photos, diagonal lines for webpages background, safety pins and shape tags.


1. Lineart Brush (Download)
This brush for Illustrator will make your strokes look like they were drawn with a pencil. Thin were the stroke begins, wider in the middle, and back to thin were the stroke ends.

Each size comes in two variations - one with the stroke getting wider to the left and one with the stroke getting wider to the right. If you need other sizes just copy one of the sizes and modify it.


2. Polaroid Brushes (Download)
A nice collection of Polaroid brushes, for Photoshop useful to be used in grunge or vintage website style:

3. Diagonal Lines (Download)
This set of 17 diagonal lines brushes useful to design quickly background pattern for your websites.

4. Safety Pin (Download)
This is a set with six nice pin brushes for Photoshop.

5. Shape Tags (Download)
This is another brushes set of 23 shape tag very useful to design original tags in your websites.

If you have an interesting brushes set and you want to share it please add a comment!

Beautiful and free social websites icon set for bloggers

I want to suggest you this beautiful and free icon set of the most popular social websites "in a bottle" for bloggers (for personal and not for commercial use) designed from the guys of Templates.com.

Take a look at Templates.com

Free Icon set for bloggers consists of 10 icons: StumbleUpon.com, Ma.gnolia.com, Technorati.com, del.icio.us, DesignFloat.com, Digg.com, RSS, Twitter.com, Facebook.com, Reddit.com. Each icon is produced in the following sizes: 80х80, 64х64, 32х32.

If you are courious about icon desing, you can learn more about the creation process of this Icon Set here.

Take a look at this link to download this icon set.

Templates.com

Freebies

The most interesting free resources on-line: fonts, icons, brushes for Photoshop and Illustrator, Dreamweaver extensions, Blogger and WordPress Templates and much more!

Do you want to suggest an interesting resource? Please send me a message.

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