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Create GIF Ajax loader image online

Anil Gupta — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 08:00:37 +0000

I was hunting on the web for a nice GIF image that I can put while ajax request to server is on process. I found many good GIF images but then I thought it should be something matching with the theme of our project. Then, I thought I should create something from scratch. But, I was not aware of any of the quick tool that can create GIF animation image quickly and easily. Suddenly, Narendra ( Our Web Engineer ) suggested me for a nice online tool which provides lots of templates for GIF loader animation image . It provides enough options to format the loader images to your choice of colors. Finally, I was able to create a GIF animation image in 2 minutes of time and something which I needed.

Thanks Narendra for sharing this information.

OpenInviter – Very Good Contact Grabbing Solution

Anil Gupta — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:19:53 +0000

OpenInviter - Contact Grabbing Solution for PHP

We were looking for some good contact grabbing solution to implement on few of our projects. We did lots of analysis on paid, free ware and open source tool for this. Our need was very specific.

Stable
Priority : Open Source , Free Ware, Paid
Should cover almost all the possible Popular Email Provider and Social Networking Site.
Should have integrated Email sending feature for selected user.
Must be in PHP Language.
Easy to install, configure and customize.
Should have an upgrade option whenever there is any change on Contact Grabbing Logic.
Well documentation, nimble support and rich technical resources.

After doing good search on web and analyzing different contact grabbing, finally we decided to go with OpenInviter. We found it almost close to our needs. We have successfully setup and configured it on our development server. We have started to implement it on our projects. OpenInviter has separate package/plug-in/module for other CMS and open sources. Which I haven’t tried yet. But looks like it should simple vanilla.

Kudos to Hitesh for finding this wonderful contact grabbing tool.

Do you know any other Contact Grabbing tool which is best? Let’s share.

Free Flex Components to add more beauty in your RIA Applicaitons

Anil Gupta — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:28:56 +0000

Here is some good resource of free flex components. Flex comes with many good flex components but we always look for some more advanced and unique components to make our application different and Rich.

Here I have listed a few resource for you which holds many cool flex components for free.

Do you know any other resource for free flex 2/3/4 components? Lets share here and help other flex freak.

Flex Style Explorer

Anil Gupta — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:12:13 +0000

If you are a RIA developer, designer or enthusiast. This must be a nice post for you. We create and design Flex Applications for our clients worldwide at MULTIDOTS. As RIA itself means Rich User Experience, we always need to apply attractive and eye catching styles to Flex controls and Application. We wanted to optimize it always. As part of our optimization research we found a very nice application or you can say a RIA tool which made our life easier.

Hope you are excited to hear about that tool. Yeah, so here we go. That application is “Flex Style Explorer“.

Few great Features

Easy control selection, Almost all the controls are listed which you need to give a fancy and eye catching look.
You can easily find and modify the style properties attached with controls.
An instant preview is available.
Top of all this, it provides CSS code for that control style which you need to put in your CSS file for your flex app.

You must use this tool to optimize your design skills and time.

Thanks, Prashant ( Our RIA Developer at MULTIDOTS ) for searching and sharing this tool.

USVN – SVN Repository Administration

Anil Gupta — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 10:52:22 +0000

We at MULTIDOTS using SVN for all our projects. SVN helps us lot for code revision and work collaboration. As projects get increased it was required for us to find some easy GUI for Repository and User Access Managment tool. I had tried couple of them. But I am quite impressed with USVN. Finally I decided to go with that. Now its working all well and my job is done. Now I can easily manage my all the projects, repository access on those projects and repository. It saves my lots of time to create new project or repository in SVN.

Few Facts about USVN

Its Web Based GUI Programe for Repository Management.
Its powered by PHP/MySQL with Zend Framework.
Simple Setup.
Group Management.
User Management.
Repository Management.
Its not supporting any ways to manage hooks right now.

I am going to write few problems and issue I had to face while setuping up the USVN and my SVN Server in my next Post. If you are facing any issue with USVN setup or SVN setup you can share you problems here, I will try my best to answer them all.