Vows is a behavior driven development framework for Node.js that allows you to test your code  asynchronously. For developers working in agile model, Vows offers a convenient way to execute tests in parallel whenever required or when there are dependencies.

Vows is a handy tool for two reasons: it tests your code in asynchronous fashion and it runs I/O based test much faster, by running them concurrently.

With so many Apple fans on the globe, anything that is not ported to Apple platform is going to miss a big audience. Fortunately, there is a growing number of applications that bridge the divide between Apple fans and the rest of the world. One such awesome product is Audiobook Binder.

Audiobook Binder allows you to convert audio files (songs, audio books, voice files etc.) from popular MP3 format to MP4 bookmarkable (m4b) format for iPod users. It is a simple utility for quick conversion of individual pieces as well as audio files in bulk.

Audiobook Binder is available in CLI as well as GUI version.  It is free and open source. Just grab sources and start hacking.

Features

• Author/title information in m4b audiobook
• Cover artwork
• Chapter markers
• Tuneable audio encoding properties: mono/stereo, sample rate, bitrate
• Automatically adds m4b files to iTunes media library when encoding is finished

PowerTools! for MooTools brings powerful low-level Plugins to speed up the development of JavaScript-heavy web applications.

There are 20+ MooTools plugins and each of them can be downloaded alone or you can select the required ones and get a package.

The plugins include many useful components including:

• Custom Events
• Mobile events to make your web applications more touching
• History Management
• Tree components – A set of components to sort and/or collapse/expand a tree
• ScrollLoader – Provides the ability to load more content when a user reaches the end of a page

If you are in to real-time application development for the Web and use socket based communication channels, greep EasyWebSocket. It is a simple websocket client that you can use for rapid prototyping and designing realtime web application. It can be used to connect client applications and send messages on a standardized protocol.

Based on standard WebSocket technology (API standardized by WC3, protocol being standardized by IETF), EasyWebSocket works natively with HTML 5 and is easy to learn/implement. It can be implemenetd easily for establishing realtime communication protocol with low latency and low overheads. It is supported by all major browsers.

All you have to do is grab the code and use it; it requires:

• No Web server to set up
• No browser compatibility issues to solve
• No cross domain issues to resolve

PhiloGL is an open source WebGL framework for data visualization (especially 3D elements) and game development. Since it is based on WebGL, it is royalty-free, cross platform and does not require any external plugins to render creative 3D graphics or data visualizations.

PhiloGL uses scripting power of JavaScript and native support of HTML canvas elements to support creative graphical presentations. You can experiment with PhiloGL framework in many different ways including game development, graphical presentations and creative, visualization projects. PhiloGL is supported by major web browser vendors such as Google (Chrome), Mozilla (Firefox), Apple (Safari) and Opera (Opera) as they are members of WebGL Working Group.

Major Features of PhiloGL

• Powerful rendering of graphics (without any plugin) because of clear and tight abstraction of WebGL
• Expressive and powerful API based on JavaScript good practices and idioms
• Provides all necessary modules (XHR, JSONP, Web Workers etc.) that you need for web based graphical presentations
• Royalty Free and open source visualization framework for the Web

3D Ribbon Generator is a handy online CSS3 ribbon generator that helps designers create 3D ribbons without images.

The created ribbons are compatible with all major browsers.

If you are a WordPress developer and often need a simple framework that gives you all the power of standard WordPress PHP and CSS code base along with freedom to customize the whole theme and layout, Whiteboard Framework is your all-in-one solution.

Whiteboard Framework provides built-in support for widely-used WordPress component including manageable menus, widgets, SEO tools, featured posts etc. So, you do not need to rewrite these generic WordPress component. You save time and built better WordPress sites on a firm and lightweight foundation that support WordPress 3.0x and older versions (with some fallbacks).

Some of the major features of Whiteboard Framework are:

• Built-in tools for the development of mobile websites
• More dynamic Classes and IDs than any other WordPress framework
• Support for strong Search Engine Optimization
• Custom admin menu and changing primary navigation for logged in users
• HTML5 and CSS support with graceful degradation

The Bug Genie is an open source, web-based issue tracking and project management software – built on free and open source technology. Written in PHP, and runs on all major server platforms.

This user friendly and powerful issue / bug tracking software comes with many features including:

• Project management
• SVN integration
• Publishing tools
• Messaging and Calendar

QapTcha is a simple jQuery captcha plugin built using jQuery UI. To unlock a form, the user has to drag a slider from the left to the right. This is a bulletproof captcha plugin because bots aren’t able to perform drag and drop events.

This intuitive jQuery captcha plugin makes things very easy for you with a limited amount of setup required and standard XHTML and CSS classes in place to make changing the appearance super easy.

jQuery.FixedTable is a jQuery plugin to create excel style fixed header and columns for an HTML table.

Feature

• Allow horizontal and vertical scroll
• Support multiple HTML tables with fixed header and columns on one page
• The number of fixed columns can be customize
• The background colors of each row when mouse is over and out can be customized