Suresh Chowhan

ArticleMS Article Management System

Suresh Chowhan — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:53:14 +0000

ArticleMS is a content publishing system designed for creating multi user, content driven sites is absolutely free to download and use. ArticleMS Article Management System can be used as an article directory, a personal blog, press release portal or anything where content matters. With the fine grained permission system you can choose who can publish where in your site, while you can completely change the look to your liking with the easy to use template system.

Some of best features of ArticleMS Article Management System:

100% Search Engine Friendly Url’s
Mass Approve/Decline articles, made to easily handle thousands of submissions
Powerful template system, easily customize your site exactly how you want it
Fine grained permissions sytem - choose exactly what permissions you want different users to have
RSS Feeds - even for the search results
Email templates - notify an author when his/her article is approved
WYSIWYG Editor for article submissions
Collaborative Editing system - Allow different authors to edit the same article, and all changes is automatically tracked
CAPTCHA (image verification) support to keep away spammers

User Demo: http://demo.articlems.com/
Admin Demo: http://demo.articlems.com/admin/
Download: http://www.articlems.com/download/

Gallery: Open Source Web Based Photo Organizer

Suresh Chowhan — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:27:57 +0000

Gallery is an open source web based photo album organizer with the goal to develop and support leading photo sharing web application solutions. Gallery is freeware and free to download, gives you an instinctive way to blend photo management seamlessly into your own website whether on a running small personal site or for a large community site. The software licensed under the GPL, and is maintained and developed by a community of users and developers. Gallery is unique project of its kind and mostly used world wide.

A Gallery is a collection of photo albums. System can have many Galleries on a single web server. Each gallery contains as many photo albums as required. Configuration of Gallery and administration of the photo albums is done entirely via an intuitive, web interface. You don’t need special privileges on your web-server to install, configure and maintain Gallery. It’s free, and we (the Gallery team) support it. Gallery works with several different image processing toolkits and is available in over 30 languages!

A brief overview of the requirements of Gallery 1 and Gallery 2:

Platform - UNIX (BSD, Linux, …) or Windows
Webserver - Apache, Microsoft IIS, Zeus, …
PHP - PHP version 4.3.0 or greater (Gallery 1.x requires PHP 4.1.0 or greater), PHP safe_mode must be turned off
Image Processing Library - In order to automatically generate thumbnails and resized versions of your photos, Gallery requires either ImageMagick or NetPBM. Gallery 2 additionally supports GD and GraphicsMagick
Database (Gallery 2 only) - MySQL 3.x, 4.x or 5.x, PostgreSQL 7.x or 8.x, Oracle 9i or 10g, DB2 8.2, MS SQL Server 2005 (Gallery 1.x does NOT require a database)

Visit: http://gallery.menalto.com/
Download: http://codex.gallery2.org/Downloads

openSIS: Free Student Information System

Suresh Chowhan — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:25:15 +0000

openSIS is a free student information system that rivals costly commercial alternatives in looks, functionality and ease of use and administration. openSIS is the centerpiece of an evolving set of integrated open source education applications that support schools and districts. openSIS is a game changer and a new paradigm in administrative education software. openSIS founders have always said that if we can produce an open source package that is easy to use, looks great, has the same functionality as commercial alternatives and represents a TCO up to 75% less than comparable solutions, then the decision should be easy.

Features:

Student Demographics
Contact Information
Scheduling
Gradebook
Reports/Report Designer
Report Cards
Transcripts
Health Records
Parent Portal
User Customizable Preferences
Security
Discipline
Email and SMS Text Messaging
Food Service
Student Billing
State Reporting

Benefits:

Lower Total Cost of Ownership
Freedom from Vendor Control
Central Administration
100% Web Based
Hosted
Communication
Security
Open Standards, Open Products
Platform Independence
Ease of Use, Ease of Administration
End User Customization

Download: https://eduforge.org/projects/opensis
Demo: http://opensis.com/demo.php

FladsClassifieds: Open Source Classifieds Advertisements Website

Suresh Chowhan — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:20:44 +0000

FladsClassifieds is a multilingual application for publishing different types of classified advertisements on a website. Flads Classifieds is built on top of a PHP MVC Framework and uses a MySQL database.

FladsClassifieds is a versatile application that allows you build classified advertisements Web site. Advertisements are grouped within categories configured by the website administrator. Categories are arranged in category trees to allow for subcategory support.

Main features are:

Advertisement posting may be restricted to registered members only.
The following settings are configurable on a per category basis:
- Whether advertisements are moderated or not,
- Maximum advertisement expiration delay,
- Advertisement display,
- Advertisement fields.
Communication between registered users via a private messaging system (optional).
“Static pages”.
Payment module.

Download: http://fladsclassified.sourceforge.net/

OrangeHRM: Open Source Human Resource Management System

Suresh Chowhan — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:11:20 +0000

OrangeHRM is an Open Source for Human Resource (HR) Management System that covers Personnel Information Management, Employee Self Service, Leave Management, Time & Attendance, Benefits, and Recruitment Details. OrangeHRM System is great for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) by providing a flexible and easy to use HR Management system affordable for any company worldwide. By using this system you no required any IT staff to install or manage, no infrastructure.

The project was started during fall 2005 and the first beta release was made in January 2006 and offers to users at free of cost. Today OrangeHRM has users worldwide enjoying a free, stable and highly usable HRM solution. The system is backed by professional support and services as well as a fast growing, receptive and knowledgeable worldwide open source community. By building and leveraging this community of users, developers and partners, the usability, scope and international adoption of OrangeHRM is continuously being improved.

The system covers various and necessary modules, are given below:

Admin Module
Personal Information Module
Employee Self Service
Report Module
Leave Module
Time and Attendance Module
Benefit Module
Recruitment Module

Download: http://www.orangehrm.com/download.php
Demo Test: http://www.orangehrm.com/demo.shtml

Piwik: Open Source Real Time Web Analytics Software

Suresh Chowhan — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:33:10 +0000

Piwik (http://piwik.org/) is an open source (GPL licensed) web analytics software program, provides detailed real time reports of website visitors about your site. It generates all report like search engines, keywords, referrals, language, popular pages and more. This software is downloadable and can install for free on your website or blog.

Piwik is substitute of Google Analytics. This program is based on PHP MySQL software that you download and install on your own webserver. At the end of the five minute installation process you will be given a JavaScript tag. Simply copy and paste this tag on websites you wish to track (or use an existing plugin to do it automatically for you).

Some features that make Piwik unique from other web analytics tools:

Plugin features to add or remove the features of tool.
You can have your own data: because the program is installed on your server. No third party can use your web stats data.
User interface and dashboard is fully customizable with drag and drop the widgets features.
Real time web analytics reports generation.

Demo: http://piwik.org/demo/
Download: http://piwik.org/latest.zip

List of HTTP status returned by a Server

Suresh Chowhan — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:36:26 +0000

Here is list of HTTP status that may be returned by a Server:

200: request completed (OK)
201: object created, reason = new URI
202: async completion (TBS)
203: partial completion
204: no info to return
205: request completed, but clear form
206: partial GET furfilled
300: server couldn’t decide what to return
301: object permanently moved
302: object temporarily moved
303: redirection w/ new access method
304: if-modified-since was not modified
305: redirection to proxy, location header specifies proxy to use
307: HTTP/1.1: keep same verb
400: invalid syntax
401: access denied
402: payment required
403: request forbidden
404: object not found
405: method is not allowed
406: no response acceptable to client found
407: proxy authentication required
408: server timed out waiting for request
409: user should resubmit with more info
410: the resource is no longer available
411: the server refused to accept request w/o a length
412: precondition given in request failed
413: request entity was too large
414: request URI too long
415: unsupported media type
500: internal server error
501: required not supported
502: error response received from gateway
503: temporarily overloaded
504: timed out waiting for gateway
505: HTTP version not supported

Xaraya Open Source Framework

Suresh Chowhan — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:43:17 +0000

Xaraya is a cutting edge open source framework (based on in PHP) on which developers can create sophisticated web applications and designers enjoy considerable flexibility. Xaraya provides documentation in various forms. Few of the selected features of Xaraya is listed below:

Modular design
Robust, Extensible API
Fully internationalized
Powerful Security and Privileges
XML based templating with BlockLayout
Dynamic Data
Multi-Language System
Web Based Installer

Xaraya is not just a CMS but its offers the solutions for intranet, extranet, a personal or corporate website, content management system (CMS) or specific web based application. Xaraya has the framework, and tools to allow you to quickly create your own site with full functionality and content you want and need. The framework allow full customization via web based configuration screens, or programmaticaly using inbuilt wizards, development tools. Xaraya has its own characteristics that is, help to reduces web site development costs by introducing sophisticated administration tools & services which separate form, function, content, and design. There is no cost to use it and available free of cost to download the framework. Cheers for your own website.

WordPress: Open Source Blogging Software (CMS)

Suresh Chowhan — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:48:35 +0000

WordPress is an Open Source project started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing but now able to create a large community. When it was started there was just few of users but not itself is big community that connects a millions of people. Wordpress is the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world used by world wide.

Any one can download WordPress script free of cost and install on self web host or providing by wordpress hosting service at a minimum cost. Wordpress is well known for its ease of installation, takes less than five minutes to install through easy steps with a little technical knowledge. You need PHP version 4.3 or greater and MySQL version 4.0 or greater at your web host.

Key features of Wordpress Blog Tool:

Full standards compliance
Pages Building
Themes Compatibility
Cross-blog communication tools
Spam protection
Full user registration Control
Password Protected Posts
Easy installation and upgrades
Easy Importing
XML-RPC interface
Typographical niceties
Intelligent text formatting
Multiple authors
Bookmarklets
Ping away
Language Support

However wordPress comes in U.S. English by default but the software/script offers built-in capability to be used in any language. The WordPress community has already translated WordPress into many languages, and there are Themes, translation files, and support available in many other languages. You can also create a multilingual blog with the help of Plugins. To enhance your blog features and facilities you can use plugins supported by wordpress.

My blog it self is running on Wordpress platform, providing web related information.

List of all Official Google Blogs

Suresh Chowhan — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:06:14 +0000

All about Official Google Blogs: Below is just not a list but a complete network of company blogs that cover all types of topics about new launch, new product launch, new feature launch, renewable energy policies, product updates, developer challenges and code snippets, and information for advertisers and partners: