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Because today’s Internet is rife with hackers, PHP web developers must code defensively and guard against potentially destructive errors.

The powerful Dojo web user interface toolkit lets developers build interactive web applications that interact with third-party APIs, such as Google Maps.

The Walt Disney Internet Group created a language and IDE for use on its own websites. If you know Java, it might just be your cup of Tea.

Web application developers should consider providing keyboard shortcuts to important functions. Here’s how you can implement access keys, which let you quickly navigate to a specific field, and hot keys, which let users invoke any function or perform any given procedure.

Want to build graphical applications that run on multiple platforms? Try wxWidgets, an open source library designed to make it easy to create cross-platform GUI apps.

ViewVC is a full-featured browser interface for the CVS and Subversion version control systems (VCS). Even hard-core command-line users will find something to like in this GUI front end.

PHP’s prominence as the web development language continues to be incredibly strong, but did you know you can also employ PHP for a wide variety of shell scripting tasks? Learn how to use PHP on the command line here.

Dojo is a powerful user interface framework used for building interactive web applications. Though it bundles a great deal of functionality, you can also extend it by creating custom components. Read how.

If you use the Mercurial revision control tool, you can get more productive with the Mercurial extension Mercurial Queues, which provides an incredibly useful way of managing patch queues, including multiple and versioned patch queues. It lets you pop patches on and off your working tree to work on different things, or apply other people’s changes, as you need to.

Even a Sith Lord should find a lot to like in jEdit, a programmer’s editor that offers a combination of simplicity, speed, and features. Even if you’re already expert in Vim or gEdit, it’s worth your while to give jEdit a try.