JQueryUI - Superb GUI Toolkit

There are a lot of tool-kits and software that are purportedly very powerful, flexible, feature-packed etc. But most of them are rather difficult to setup, or have a steep learning curve, or lots of documentation to read,

... ... or ... ...

all of the above.

JQueryUI is the first tool-kit I've used that has instructions in a few succinct lines that I can easily understand, use, and just get it to work!

Highly recommend JQueryUI (and of course, JQuery) for all web GUI development work.

Javascript for Everything

Do you still think that Javascript belongs only in the web browser? Think again!

JSDB is JavaScript for databases, a scripting language for data-driven, network-centric programming on Windows, Mac, Linux, and SunOS. JSDB works with databases, XML, the web, and email. It is free and open-source. Use it as a JavaScript shell, to run CGI programs, or as a web server.

Do all your scripting with ONE language. JSDB is built on a standalone JavaScript shell for various operating systems, Linux, Windows, Mac. Suddenly, even web developers have the power to develop real applications without going into the complexities of Visual Studio.

With wxJavaScript and its numerous bindings for Curl, MySQL, etc, you can even put together powerful Windows based applications in a jiffy, and did I mention you only need to know JavaScript? No pre-requisite for Bash, ActionScript, Python, Tcl, etc.