Nisi’s work blog

Every project where people from different location are involved need a Video Conferencing solution. Usualy phone or video calls are used but what you do if you need to have a presentation for some charts or some source code? Then you buy or rent video conferencing services.

Now there is an open source alternative and it came with the name BigBlueButton.The application enables multiple users to login and share their webcam or communicate via VOIP at the same time, upload office documents or keep everyone in sync with their current page and mouse pointer

More about BigBlueButton on http://bigbluebutton.org/

Some video Overview: http://bigbluebutton.org/content/videos (they say then one image are equivalent to 1000 words and there are 5 movies so … )

MonoDevelop is a free and feature advanced IDE for C# and other .NET languages.

The great feature of all is that it work on Linux, Windows & Mac OSX. You can change your operating system but you dont need to change your IDE.

• code completion support for C#
• code templates & code folding
• integrated debugger
• web server (for instantly testing ASP.NET applications)
• GTK# visual designer
• source control
• makefile integration
• unit testing
• packaging & deployment
• localization

MonoDevelop Home Page: http://monodevelop.com/

It is possible? In the web development open source is similar with PHP & MySQL and a tone of free CMS based on them. Now it is possible with .NET too. How?

LiveUI is the answer and is built for .NET 3.5 sp1

• Based on pure ASP .NET
• Pluggable to any asp.net application
• jQuery and ExtJS support
• Composite approach
• 100% testable application code

To download LiveUI and documentation: http://liveui.net/

Browsing phpclasses.org I had found a very interesting article Neural Networks in PHP . For anyone who dont know yet “Neural networks allow emulating the behavior of a human brain in software applications.”

In this article you can read how to implement Neural Mesh to develop Neural Network applications in PHP. (Neural Networks in PHP)

Neural Mesh is an open source, pure PHP code based Neural Network manager and framework that makes it easier to work with Neural Networks.

Neural Mesh home page: http://neuralmesh.com/

• Pure PHP & MySQl
• Adaptive Learning
• Implement in any enviroment
• Web Api
• Fast

mysql -u USER -p DBNAME < dump.sql

Where:

• USER is your username
• DBNAME is Databas witch will be restored
• dump.sql (any .sql file can be used) is your database dump

Divine Plugin for Adobe Photoshop is realy divine. It take a PSD image (template) and make from it a wordpress theme.

Features:

Convert PSD to HTML

• HTML page identical to your PSD design
• Clean standard compliant HTML-CSS layout
• No HTML, CSS or programming knowledge required

Wordpress themes

• Easy publishing from Photoshop® to your Wordpress™ website
• Built in FTP-client
• Widget ready Wordpress theme as output
• Generate unlimited Wordpress themes

Browser compatibility

• Resulting HTML/PHP code is div-based
• Cross browser HTML / CSS code
• Encoding support

buy Adobe photoshop:

• Adobe Photoshop Extended CS4 Student Edition
• Adobe Photoshop CS4

Sometimes you need to post a video clip but you dint want to share it on Youtube or other websites. Then you need a FLV player to play your flv video directly from your website.

FLV Player is a free solution. Player can be customized and came in 5 types: MINI, NORMAL, MAXI, MULTI and JS.

The above image is a MAXI version of this free FLV Player.

Dovnload: http://flv-player.net/players/maxi/download/

If you are a web designer one of the hardest task is to select a color schem on witch new website template will be based. If you have something in mind like some pictures witch will be used for header footer and so on this task will be  much easyer with Color Suckr

http://colorsuckr.com/

What you have to do? It is easy!!!

Select a picture and upload it somewhere on internet (you need a link to this picture). For example I had select the next picture.

Now after you heve this link write it on the “Enter image url:” field from ColorSuckr page and press “Get Colors” Button.

After image is processed page will reload and you get something like:

Now colors sugested by Color Suckr are ok to be used in a website in witch the wireworks picture is the header.

Ok you found one. It is called nStatistics and is on just one click distance from you. It is free too.

Go to plugin page http://wiki.nisi.ro/wordpress/nstatistics-wordpress-plugin/

What you get?

• Last 15 days Statistics Table (Date, Visits, Page Views)
• Today Stats
• All time Stats
• Trafic Sources
• Accesed Pages
• Top Keywords

Every of this statistics can be displayed for Today, Yesterday, This Month, Last Month, All time

Availble for download as kits and not as virtual machines on Microsoft’s msdn site

• Visual Studio 2010
• .NET Framework 4 Beta 1

Download link http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/netframework/dd819232.aspx