Dashboard
Here is just a sneak peek at the software I use on this site which I have written
One
The very page you are on. Project Alpha One incorporates some of the most state-of-the-art programming techniques to present essentially what is a infinitely-expandable programmer's playpen. Everything from the boxes on the screen, their content, even the top bar and side menu, are plugins of a very versatile base system. All you need to make the page is loaded and moved around in memory before being assembled in the way you see it now. When logged in, the JavaScript assists users to rearrange the boxes on the screen, and will eventually handle shading (that is minimising but retaining its position on the screen) right up to closing.
Felitaur
A forum system which has grown along with its use and audiences. Initially starting off in ASP and transported to PHP in under 7 days, this system takes forums to a new level.
Having all the usual forum gadgetry, such as headings, forums, topics and of course posts, revision systems and private messaging services, Felitaur provides additional flexible member grouping, and forum permissions set by group and user, plus namespacing techniques, which allows two or more forums to sit on one database with one collection of shared tables and appear to operate as if all forums are seperate. What's more, when this is deployed, when a user signs up, they are ultimately signing up for all forums alongside it. Not only that, but permissions can be based on namespaces! So one forum may not see certain objects, whereas others can be shared!
phpHowl
A light-weight chat system built with PHP, and animated gracefully by jQuery. This little plugin will sit in the corner of any website it's deployed on, and transmit messages live to the waiting masses. With the addition of chat rooms to the system as simple as two or perhaps even one line of code, a must-have gadget for a budding site.