Bumpbox automatically detects what kind of file type you wish to show in the box easing the process of integration.

It has been successfully test with:

• Firefox 3 – 3.5
• Internet Explorer 7 | 8
• Google Chrome
• Apple Safari 3 | 4
• Opera 9.04

Bumpbox uses Mootools. It also uses flowplayer media player for FLV video playback.

For more information: Bumpbox

AnythingZoomer

Great for those eCommerce websites looking for a product zoomer but don’t want to use Flash.

For more information: AnythingZoomer

phpMyBackup Pro

All of these features are presented in a management interface. A shell mode is also available for manual use or by cron script.

There are several language packages already available.

For more information: phpMyBackup Pro

Some of the things covered are:

• Hotlinking Prevention
• IP Address Blocking
• Error Redirection
• Redirection during site maintenance
• Hiding Directory Listings

If you are using Apache webserver, you need to make sure you have mod_rewrite enabled.

For more information: 5 Fun and Practical Htaccess Solutions

This from Ed’s site:

“Hundreds of ecommerce systems exist, but very few can match the power of Magento. In this screencast, I’ll demonstrate how to download and install Magento to a local host, configure some of the site options, and create simple and configurable products and categories for our test e-commerce site.“

I’ve watched this screencast and found it invaluable.

For more information: Easy E-Commerce With Magento

It’s packaged with a CSS file to give you the look and feel of a native iPhone/iTouch application but you can use your own.

It supports both Safari 4.0+ and Mobile Safari OS 3.0.

For more information: prettyMobile

Some examples:

1. Use sprintf instead of variables contained in double quotes, it’s about 10x faster.
2. Use pre-calculations, set the maximum value for your for-loops before and not in the loop. ie: for ($x=0; $x < count($array); $x), this calls the count() function each time, use $max=count($array) instead before the for-loop starts.
3. “else if” statements are faster than select statements aka case/switch.
4. ++$i is faster than $ i++, so use pre-increment where possible.

… and many, many others.

I’ll definitely be applying all of these optimisations to my code in the future.

For more information: 50+ PHP optimisation tips revisited

PIMP3 is a Javascript MP3 player that uses Scriptaculous and Prototype. All you have to do is provide an MP3 track list in JSON format (using AJAX and a server side script).

The look and feel of the PIMP3 is entirely skinnable by editing the CSS file. Features include configurable runtime options such as autostart and random playback order of tracks.

Will be interesting to see if this can be converted to use jQuery.

For more information: PIMP3

The list ranges from SEO management, Feedburner tools, Wordpress Stats, to Polls and many others.

For more information: Blog Perfume

Some of the functions that have already been ported are:

• md5()
• date()
• base64_decode()

As the library has become too big to include at once, and having users copy-paste functions to their projects can end up causing maintenance hell, the developers have created a compiler tool that allows programmers to select ONLY the functions they need, and wrap them up in a single php.js file.

Another benefit from this library is that it enhances the functionality of Javascript by adding functions that don’t exist natively in Javascript.

Definitely a great tool for developers.

For more information: PHP.JS