Candy is an open source multi-user JavaScript chat client for Jabber with beautiful default theme. It lets you join multiple rooms, start private conversations and get notified when new messages arrive.

This JavaScript chat client ignores spammers, lets you kick / ban users and change the subject of the room.

Features

• Focused on real-time multi-user chatting
• Easy to configure, easy to run, easy to use
• 100% well-documented JavaScript source code
• Built for Jabber (XMPP), using famous technologies
• Used and approved in a productive environment with up to 400 concurrent users

If you are still tied to old WordPress interface with limited freedom to play with your site’s design and layout, we highly recommend that you check out PressWork.

It is a free, open source HTML5 WordPress theme framework that gives you freedom and power to take control of your WordPress sites. PressWork fully supports all the modern WordPress themes built on HTML5 and CSS3.

It also allows you to modify the design and layout of your website in a visual, interactive, and drag-and-drop environment. You can also add your personal style to your website in PressWork with builtin support for Google Fonts API.

The Ruby Toolbox is a great resource for Ruby developers where they can choose from a variety of tools to get their job done.

The Ruby Toolbox gives an overview of useful tools, sorted in categories and rated by the amount of watchers and forks in the corresponding source code repository on GitHub so you can find out easily what options you have and which are the most common ones in the Ruby community.

Earlier known as ‘Bespin’ and then as ‘Skywriter’  Ace (Ajax.org Cloud9 Editor) is a no-compromise code editor component for the web. Ace (Ajax Cloud9 Editor) is an open source web based code editor written in JavaScript that provides clutter-free web based code editor with all the features, usability and performance of existing native editors such as TextMate, Vim or Eclipse.

It can be easily embedded in any web page and JavaScript application.

Features

• Syntax highlighting
• Auto indentation and outdent
• Fully customizable key bindings including VI and Emacs modes
• Themes (TextMate themes can be imported)
• Search and replace with regular expressions
• Highlight matching parentheses

These days most professionals rely on online collaboration tools to create and share information. Take the example of Google Docs, Adobe Buzzword etc. However, there are very few diagramming tools for online users to  create and share technical diagrams free of cost.

However, JointJS does allow you to cater to all the needs of online diagramming for free. JointJS is a JavaScript diagraming library for creating interactive diagrams. The diagrams can be fully interactive. Joint library is suitable for both implementing a diagramming tool as well as simply for publishing your diagrams.

Main features include

• Connecting vector objects with various types of arrows
• Interacting with connections and objects
• Custom handlers for various events
• Bent lines smoothing
• Ready-to-use elements of well-known diagrams (ERD, Org chart, FSA, UML, PN, DEVS, LDM)

One of the challenges of an ever-changing digital channel, is that we find ourselves spending more and more time designing for various platforms and form factors. One such platform is Google Android.

To help improve the design workflow teehanlax made a free GUI Vector PSD for Google Android 2.3.4. The template is based on the most popular screen size (normal) and pixel-density (high) using the default Android skin as the baseline.

The Free Android GUI PSD requires the Droid Sans font which can be downloaded from Font Squirrel.

Hope you did not miss our recent post about the use of maps as emerging trend in web design. If you have not followed the suit yet, now is the time. Because it is now quite easy to add maps to your websites with MapQuery.

MapQuery, a jQuery plugin that you can use to add maps to your website. Whether you quickly want to add a simple map to a page, or build a feature rich web application, MapQuery is just the thing you need.

jQuery.fracs determines the visible fraction of an HTML element that is currently in the viewport, as well as the fraction it takes of the complete viewport and the fraction of the area that might possibly be visible.

It also provides the coordinates of the visible rectangle in document, element and viewport space.

Chosen is a tiny JavaScript library for enhancing HTML select boxes. This plugin hides standard HTML selects and provides an alternative using modern HTML and CSS. That means it’s possible to add behaviour that standard selects don’t support without losing support when JavaScript is turned off.

Instead of forcing your users to scroll through a giant list of items, they can just start typing the name of the item they were looking for. Non-matching entries are removed from view and choices can be selected using enter or mouse click.

It is currently available in both jQuery and Prototype flavors.

One of the top trends in web design is effective and creative content navigation. You can experience all types of horizontal and vertical navigation of different style in modern websites. To get started with creative navigation, today we are featuring Ascensor, which is a scrolling navigation jQuery plugin which aims to train and adapt content according to an elevator system.

Ascensor identifies div child of the selected container and also creates the needed navigation system to link to different content parts.

Features

• Make every div child a stage of the site
• Add in every div a link for the next div (true/false)
• Create a visual navigation (true/false)
• Adapt and scroll to the active content
• URL logical support