DHTMLX team has announced the availability of version 2.1 of dhtmlxScheduler, a lightweight and highly customizable Ajax calendar component for creating rich scheduling UI. The update includes numerous enhancements and bug fixes, and introduces the following new features:

- Agenda View, which allows users to see the list of oncoming events starting from the current date (if needed, this starting date may be easily changed).

- In addition to Day/Week/Month Views, version 2.1 provides the ability to display events in the Year View.

- The update includes multiple extensions for the most common use-cases such as: read-only form, loading from multiple sources, key navigation, html templates, etc.

- Online Skin Builder for dhtmlxScheduler now provides developers with the ability to choose the coloring scheme for the calendar, or change the colors of each part of the skin.

- Localization capabilities of dhtmlxScheduler have been extended. The list of supported languages includes Chinese, Japanese, French, Finnish, German, Hebrew, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, and more.

Version 2.1 also provides much more samples, which demonstrate the capabilities of the calendar and simplify the use of the component. For more info and download please visit this page.

Ample SDK is a standard-based cross-browser JavaScript GUI Framework for building Rich Internet Applications. It employs XML technologies (such as XUL, SVG or HTML5) for UI layout, CSS for UI style and JavaScript for application logic. It equalizes browsers and brings technologies support to those missing any.

Today’s web browsers are playing a role more and more crucial in web application development since they’re becoming the web platforms that we build on, but for web application developers problems to solve remain the same : use of open technologies and standards while assuring compatibility between different browsers and devices. AMPLE SDK provides a client-side application layer to build standards-based GUI using open technologies and guarantee a compatibility with most web browsers. No need to learn anything new !

The SDK simplifies coding client-side applications by providing common playground across all web-browsers. It doesn’t modify/enforce any new programming practices or API – only standard technologies used. It enables XUL (Mozilla-based GUI technology) cross-browser, as well as it adds SVG 1.1 to the Internet Explorer. And many more.

The project is available under MIT and GPL license, more information and download available at http://www.amplesdk.com/

Forum functionality is now available for Open Source eCommerce platform Magento through integration with vBulletin – the major Open Source forum publishing software. The extension that provides close integration between the two platforms was developed and released by AITOC, Inc. this November.

Forums benefit eCommerce business owners:

• by generating free content that helps to drive sales and contributes to SEO;
• by increasing traffic to the web store;
• by adding interactive social element to the web store.

The vBulletin Integration extension has rich functionality and is 100% Open Source. It enables shoppers to discuss products right from the Magento store front-end. The extension makes the registration, navigation and account management easy both for shoppers and admins. Lite version of the extension is available for free download.

Marlboro, NJ (November 23, 2009) – MXsense Solutions, Inc. today announced a new version of its MXsense Web-based email archiving solution which now supports Linux and Unix operating systems. Organizations running Sendmail and compliant email servers on Linux, Unix, Sun Solaris, HP-UX and IBM AIX can now take full advantage of MXsense. This new version is available now and expands on the company’s widely deployed email archiving platform for Microsoft Exchange environments.

MXsense is designed to help organisations manage the ever-growing volume of information and intelligence stored in email communications and attachments. As a cloud-based email archiving solution, MXsense provides a powerful search engine with built-in indexing and retrieval features, giving users full access to their personal and corporate “extended inbox.” A fully-managed solution, MXsense does not require the installation and management of client software or on-premise equipment. All archived email is securely stored and managed in our data center.

Manuel Lemos – phpclasses.org – posted an interview with Khaled Al-Shamaa, one of the very known PHP figures in the Arab world especially for his book “PHP and the Arabic language” and his classes around Arabic language usage within PHP. In the interview Khaled talked about himself, his experience, projects mainly with PHP and ar-php project.

Arabic is a language spoken in many countries. The number of PHP developers from countries that use the Arabic language has been growing a lot. Currently it represents almost 2% of the users that access the PHPClasses site.