A quick snippet of JavaScript to convert values to pixels from any string. Below is a quick function:

function px(val) {
    return parseInt(val)+"px";
  }
}

To use it, just wrap your string with the function
and it should convert it to pixels for you:

var oldValue = '65';
var newValue = px(oldValue);

Eyesis Data Grid Control is a PHP class for creating a datagrid from a MySQL database almost instantly.

With 6 lines of code, you can connect to the database, mention the table & define the query, rest is automated.

It has nice features like:

• Filtering and searching
• Changing column headers
• Can displaying images
• Ajax supported
• Automatic row paging
• Row selection
• Look & feel can be customized via CSS
• Ability to add controls
• Checkbox support
• Specify column format types (such as percent, dollars, etc)

This Ajaxed PHP grid works in all major browsers & requires PHP5 to run.

Claros, which is a passionate team in creating open source software, has a beautiful software named Claros inTouch.

Clasor InTouch is an ajax communication suite with key features such as webmail, address book, post-it notes, calendar (in progress), webdisk (in progress), built-in instant messenger and RSS reader. It is the first open source web application which features built in spam protection and instant messaging capabilities together with web 2.0 technologies.

It is built with Java, utilizes JSP/Servlets with the well known J2EE technologies & uses MySQL database.

Claros inTouch is more than a free webmail software with a slick interface & usability.

It is offered under GNU which makes this communication suite software totally free.

Classic ASP is losing its popularity, or already lost it. On the other hand, there are many developers who use it.

And, it is hard to find new & exciting projects about classic ASP but here is one: ajaxed, an ASP library with built-in Ajax support.

With the release of ajaxed 2, the library is very mature, well documented & supported with examples.

It includes a debugging tool (Logger), has an e-mail wrapper, datagrid, a validator control & much more.

ajaxed is also fully UTF-8 compatible and has support for MySQL, MSSQL, sqlite, MS Access & Oracle.

It is a great library to speed up the development process for classic ASP developers.

DD_roundies is another rounded corners solution that is very easy to implement & cross-browser compliant.

This rounded corners script doesn’t use any images, works in IE6 without AlphaImageLoader & lightweight (3.62kb compressed).

Radius of the corners are not fixed & can be defined.

As the major problem for rounded corners lies beneath IE, this rounded corners script uses VML (inspired from Jonathan Snook’s solution). A possible future problem is IE8 -currently- does not support VML.

pChart is a PHP class oriented framework designed to create aliased charts. Most of todays chart libraries have a cost, pChart is intended to be free. Data can be retrieved from SQL queries, CSV files, or manually provided. This project is still under development and new features or fix are made every week.

Focus has been put on rendering quality introducing an aliasing algorithm to draw eye candy graphics. In fact, quality is slowing down the renderer engine… this is one of our way of improvment!

In this article Guillermo Rauch’s will go through the creation of a custom navigation bar with some cute Javascript effects that will certainly impress your friends and the visitors coming to your website. This custom navigation bar needs Mootools library, this beauty is contained in 1.5kb. Not only that, but it’s also cross browser (tested on Internet Explorer 6/7, Firefox and Safari) and accessible.

Seadragon is a technology, by Microsoft, for deeply zooming images of any size. It provides almost perfect transitions independent from the sizes of the images.

Seadragon Ajax is an interface for using/embedding this technology to any website.

Seadragon can be used in 2 ways:

• By uploading images to Photozoom & use Embed Builder
• Compose a deep zoom image with Deep Zoom Composer & upload the images to your website

Developers can customize viewers & controls with the Seadragon Ajax Library. It is also available at the Silverlight platform.

This is a very good looking Flash news slider (AS3 code) which uses XML for fetching the data.

The Flash slider simply displays an image and a descriptive text with a link to the URL wanted. The slider can be controlled via the next-previous & pause buttons.

You can find the steps for creating this Flash news slider as a tutorial and download the source files.

Design of the slider is inspired from the LaNacion.com website.

Scrollable is a flexible & lightweight (3.9kb) jQuery plugin for creating scrollable contents.

Any content (HTML, video, text..) can be used as a scrolling item. And, it supports vertical scrolling besides the standard horizontal scrolling which makes it very ideal, specially for news sites or portals to present the flash contents.

Other features of Scrollable are:

• Setting the number of visible items
• Mouse, arrow keys and mousewheel (requires mousewheel.js) support
• Programmatic actions: next, prev, nextPage, prevPage, seekTo, begin, end
• Know when list is scrolled with custom event listener

This jQuery plugin is built by the FlowPlayer team (see WRD post) and includes great examples (this & this) with FlowPlayer integration.