Growl is a lightweight JavaScript (mootools powered) that you can use for creating Lightbox-like but disappearing notifications.

Compass is an open source project built on top of Lucene aiming at simplifying the integration of search into any Java application.

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This is a plugin that extends the acts_as_solr plugin to allow applications to better harness the power of Solr.

RubyIZUMI is an open source RTMP Server for Flash Video/Audio Streaming. It is written in (Pure) Ruby and it supports to broadcast MP4(H.264 + AAC). You can watch it on the latest Flash player on your browser.

This Rails plugin allows you to freeze or link a gem into your rails source (inspired by Rick Olsen’s gems plugin)

make_resourceful handles all that for you. It sets up all your RESTful actions and responses with next to no code. Everything has full, sensible default functionality. Make_resourceful can be massively customized.

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Mapstraction is a library that provides a common API for various javascript mapping APIs to enable switching from one to another as smoothly as possible.

mooRainbow is a powerful Javascript color picker that allows you to visually choose and use colors as a real and useful application.

umbraco is an open source project with roots back to year 2000 even though it wasn’t released as open source until 2004. Prior to that it was founder Niels Hartvig’s home-grown weapon of choise for working as a freelancer.

Edit your own website. Instantly.

TypeRoom Lite is a free website editing tool
that allows you to edit a website in seconds.

GraphJam: Pop culture for people in cubicles.

What’s New in Edge Rails: Fixtures Just Got a Whole Lot Easier

Plans lets you put calendars on the web.

Phormer is a PHP-Based PhotoGallery Manager application, that helps you to store, categorize and trim your photos on the web with various helpful features!

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GoogieSpell is a spell checker that you can use in your own web-application.

Pure CSS Animated Progress Bar

A configurable, AJAX file browser plugin for jQuery.

What’s New in Edge Rails: Has Finder Functionality 3

The days of forcing time-zone support into your Rails apps with not one, but two plugins are over. It would appear that Rails now has its own way of dealing with timezones via a custom implementation (though it’s still based on the tzinfo gem).

The Google AJAX Translation WordPress plugin provides a quick, simple and light way to add internationalization feature onto your blog.

Today we’re launching a new Google Talk feature that lets visitors to your web site chat with you. We call it “chatback” because instead of you doing all the talking on your blog, your visitors can talk back to you.

Share your photos on Twitter with TwitPic!

Chat with visitors to your website using iChat!

Lightweight but rich data grid with resizable columns and a scrolling data to match the headers, plus an ability to connect to an xml based data source using Ajax to load the content.

Meteora is set of cross-browser Widgets and Controls that allows you to quickly write rich and customizable web applications without having to waste time reading full pages of documentation or programming excessive javascript that is painful to debug.

simplejson is a simple, fast, extensible JSON encoder/decoder for Python

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MooCrop is an Image Cropping utility using the amazingly powerful mootools javascript framework. Alone it serves no practical purpose but used in conjuction with a server side script becomes a powerful image manipulation tool.

Jon Wiley, User Experience Designer for Google Apps, outlined some of the most important principles for designing interfaces at Google. In his presentation at the WritersUA conference, Jon listed the following guidelines:

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All-Out Code Edit War:
What’s the best Web-developer’s Code Editor out there?

Why Lucene isn’t that good

Clicky makes web analytics easy, fun, powerful, and drop dead gorgeous.

Once you go Mac, you never go back

Create your own custom images in moments and send to friends

Tracks is a web-based application to help you implement David Allen’s Getting Things Done™ methodology. It was built using Ruby on Rails, and comes with a built-in webserver (WEBrick), so that you can run it on your own computer if you like.

mongrel_proctitle, a clever little plugin developed by Alexander Staubo. Drop it into your Rails plugin directory, restart your Mongrels, issue a ‘ps aux’, and you’ll be pleasantly surprised to see exactly what each of your Mongrels is doing.

his is a simple module which changes Mongrel’s process title to reflect what it’s currently doing. You can then determine a given Mongrel server’s status using ps.

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