Quommunnication Stencil Kit
A PSD file with common design elements for sketching and wireframing: form elements, RSS feed icons, colors, Advertising units, browser windows and grids

Facebook Applications Stencil Kit
A pretty sizable collection of Facebook related elements to use in creating wireframes for Facebook applications.

Free Sketching & Wireframing Kit
The Sketching & Wireframing Kit is a free set of elements for sketching and wireframing. It consists of form elements, icons, indicators, feedback messages, tool tips, navigation elements, image placeholders, embedded videos, sliders and common ad banners. The Kit comes in two vector formats, one for Adobe Illustrator and the other in SVG, which can be easily modified. It can also be downloaded in PDF and EPS formats.

Dodo is a free to-do list application, built on top of Zend Framework, & comes in two versions:

• hosted (free)
• full source code

It is a multi-user application where anyone can register, then use it & provides an almost completely Ajaxed interface.

Dodo doesn’t offer anything complicated, just creating lists & tasks under them. Once a task is completed, it can be marked as “done”.

The application has both public & admin interfaces. Also, it provides an API for easier integration with 3rd party applications.

qWikiOffice is an open source project for creating desktop-like web interfaces.

With the power of Ext JS Library (& PHP), it offers a very similar usage to desktops with:

• windows
• start menu
• dialog boxes
• taskbar & more..

1. Use PHP Only When You Need it - Rasmus Lerdorf

2. Use Many Tables With PHP and MYSQL for Scalability - Matt Mullenweg

3. Never, ever trust your users - Dave Child4. Invest in PHP Caching - Ben Balbo

5. Speed up PHP Development with an IDE, Templates and Snippets - Chad Kieffer

6. Make Better Use of PHP’s Filter Functions - Joey Sochacki

7. Use a PHP Framework - Josh Sharp

8. Don’t use a PHP Framework - Rasmus Lerdorf

9. Use Batch Processing - Jack D. Herrington

10. Turn on Error Reporting Immediately - David Cummings

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There are a few special techniques or effects that can spice up just about any web page. These are the top 20 Ajax effects that every web developer should know. They’re essential parts of any web developer’s toolbox. If you haven’t seen them yet, you no doubt will in your future web development endeavors.

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Software frameworks provide developers with powerful tools to develop more flexible and less error-prone applications in a more effective way. Software frameworks often help expedite the development process by providing necessary functionality “out of the box”. Such things include user/role management, data access, caching, and much more. These frameworks aid in helping you focus on the more important details of design and even project management by alleviating the need to reinvent the wheel for common development needs.

There are frameworks that cover specific areas of application development such as JavaScript/CSS frameworks that target the presentation (view) layer of the application, and there are others that handle more of the dynamic aspects of the application. Some include both!

In the following we present an overview of most popular web application frameworks; we cover both server-side (PHP, Java, C#, Ruby) and client-side approaches (JavaScript, CSS).