Anemone: An easy-to-use Ruby web spider framework

July 6th, 2009 - Backend, Ruby on Rails - 1 Comments

“Anemone is a Ruby library that makes it quick and painless to write programs that spider a website. It provides a simple DSL for performing actions on every page of a site, skipping certain URLs, and calculating the shortest path to a given page on a site.

The multi-threaded design makes Anemone fast. The API makes it simple. And the expressiveness of Ruby makes it powerful.”

Information about installing and using the framework can be found at http://anemone.rubyforge.org/

Melody: A community powered publishing platform

June 25th, 2009 - Blog Platforms, Useful Apps - 1 Comments

Melody is an open source content management system for bloggers and publishers where its community of users and contributors is its most important feature. Melody CMS.

Pictaculous – A Color Palette Generator

June 24th, 2009 - Useful Apps, Various Tools - No Comments

An excellent and very simple color generator can be found at pictaculous.com. All you have to do is upload an image and you will get a color palette related to this image. You also get suggestions from Kuler and ColorLovers.  As with all things related to color, the possibilities are endless.

Free vector pack: Female dancing silhouettes

June 23rd, 2009 - Design, Vector Packs - 15 Comments

This time we have a free vector packfor you. An EPS file which consists of 15 female dancing sihlouettes available for download. As always, no restrictions, use them in personal and commercial projects. Enjoy!

Animate image filling up using jQuery

June 23rd, 2009 - Frontend, jQuery - No Comments

A really interesting effect using only jQuery. Have a look at the demo and read the tutorial.