• http://jqueryfordesigners.com/demo/coda-slider.html
• http://flowplayer.org/tools/scrollable.html
• Carrousel
  • jquery based : http://plugins.jquery.com/project/carousel3d
  • scriptaculous based with PHP reflections : http://www.piksite.com/carousel.us/
• http://photosynth.net/about.aspx

We liked the Monoslideshow flash gallery player : here comes the FlowPlayer, a free flash video player htat comes with mulitple skin and options. Flowplayer takes flv videos and supports streaming. http://flowplayer.org

We love Silvsertripe but JOJO CMS has nice features too, including multi template choice for pages, drag & drop,  inherited permissions :

• Multi-site install lets you run unlimited websites from a single set of core files. Makes it real easy to upgrade lots of sites at once.
• Image handling. Jojo resizes all images on the fly from a large original image kept on the server. Images can be resized to any dimension, cropped square or cropped to fit simply by changing the URL of the image (which is search engine friendly of course). Images are cached to save server processing, and can be regenerated by pressing CTRL-F5 in your browser (no complicated cache-clearing routines here).
• Search engine friendly CMS

link : http://www.jojocms.org

CRM, task management, time tracking, are features of the new OpenGOO opensource software that’s just appeared on stage. Many of these tasks are handled by other open source apps. Instead of reinventing the wheel, the OpenGoo developers glue together available tools, filling in the odd hole with custom apps wherever required. Some of the tools they use include FCKEditor for text editing, ExtJS for most of the AJAX interface, activeCollab for project management, and Reece calendar. For handling and editing presentations, the developers created something called Slimey.

Promotions are always a result of  complex  marketing strategies : making them real on ecommerce involves either analytic programmation, or default product features : most ecommerce application come with product promotions schema, based on percentage or price reduction. In Magento, complex rules can be implemented from within the interface, that cover a wide variety of busines cases : based on shopping cart total, shipping method, product / attribute combination, or product characteristics, Magento offers various promotion modes, such as percentage of the original price, fixed reduction, fixed destination price… Well done Magento for this new implentation of a generic feature that will answer a lot of business needs.

I recently started working with Aptana Studio after spending years on Dreamweaver  : one can only find advantages for such a migration. Aptana Studio, distributed freely, stands the comparison and comes with additional features worth trying. Here I write down some quick elements of comparison.

• both handle righ clik FTP uploading : Aptana via the synchronisation menu and Dreamweaver via the profile configuration. I have found that my dreamweaver version (v8) sometimes forget FTP user and password configuration : this last bug was actually my main reason for trying out APTANA studio !!
• XML validation : the default DTD validation parser in Aptana seems to have a bug : won’t find the declared DTD for a XML file that stands in the same folder …
• PHP function browser : the PHP PDT eclipse extension works in Aptana and delivers wonderful class and function browser. Very useful ! 
• Project wide search : Aptana allows you to work while it’s searching, while Dreamweaver (v8) freeezes until it has found all occurences. But aptana doesn’t have multi line search.
• Memory usage (Windows XP) : I compared both softwares executing with one file open. On this point Dreamweaver has an advantage. If you can’t afford heavy JAVA memory usage (250 Mb) for Aptana, then you might think of lighter Dreamweaver (50Mb).