Anky Goyal | Techartifact

August 1, 2009August 1, 2009

Open Source Flash Charts

We frequently require flash charts to present data in an effective way on our websites. for this purpose we can use paid charting controls as provided by ComponentArt or Telerik.

What if we get good effect with an open source control?

Open Flash Chart
Recently came across this open source Flash charting control.I found the UI effect as quite impressive.

It provides all types of commonly used charts like
# Bar Chart
# 3D Bar Chart
# Glass Bar Chart
# Fade Bar Chart
# Sketch Bars
# Area Chart
# Area Chart – 2
# Bars + Lines
# Pie Chart
# Pie Chart Links
# Scatter Chart
# Mixed Scatter
# High Low Close
# Candle

ASP.NET Integeration
The control come with a .NET Helper classes which allows us to integrate the charts easily with our asp.net web sites.
Library and Tutorials can be found here.

Hope this is useful to developers. Please drop a comment if you find the article useful or for any further queries.

June 10, 2009August 1, 2009

10 most Useful resources for jQuery across the web

While skimming the internet and searching for good learning resources for jQuery i found amazing links which can help anybody using or learning jQuery.

Below are the 10 very useful resource’s list. I hope it will be helpful to others.

Let’s start of with the link which can give us head start to our jQuery learning:

15 Resources To Get You Started With jQuery From Scratch

Then comes a link to the best practices which we should follow to make our jquery and javascript run faster:

Improve your jQuery-25 excellent tips

Next comes up other links

All the jQuery resources you’ll ever need
15 Days Of jQuery
5 JavaScript Tricks Made Easy with jQuery
The 20 Most Practical and Creative Uses of jQuery
40+ JavaScript and jQuery resources that will make you a better Web developer
7 of my favorite jQuery plugins for use with ASP.NET
50+ Amazing Jquery Examples- Part1
70 New, Useful AJAX And JavaScript Techniques

Also See: Amazing List of Jquery Resources

June 8, 2009June 9, 2009

Worldkit:Open Source Awesome looking Mapping application

Problem
Are you looking for a good mapping application component to use in your application. It should have good graphics and should be easy to use??

you want to display your data on a World or a local map. Just like Google maps or Live Maps but free of cost??

Solution
The solution to the above problem exists with the name of Worldkit
worldKit is an easy to use and flexible mapping application for the Web. Light weight GIS. It’s a SWF based app, configured by XML, data fed by RSS. Stand-alone use or integration in larger projects.

Some of the Features of Worldkit

Ubiquitous use in the Flash Player and with RSS feeds.
Highly configurable look and feel. Can use images for marking annotations.
Integrates with weblogging tools, and any software producing RSS.
Displays photos within the map.
Zoom & Pan. Integrates with Zoomify for high resolution images, and WMS Sources.
Lines and Polygons. Time Navigation.
Accepts input for Collaborative Cartography & GeoWiki.
Annotations are categorizable. Javascript interface for GIS layer functionality.
GPS track routes.

Basically its a flash application which can take data from RSS feeds directly or from an XML file as specified by us.
It also shows the night and day lights on the same image.

It has got a specified configuration format.

Snapshot
worldkitsample

Examples
The tool has already been used at many sites around the web and the complete list can be found on Examples page.