eZ Components is an open source & feature-rich PHP(5) components library.

By offering quality solutions to common tasks & same naming conventions / structures for all of them, the library aims to speed-up the development time.

Some features offered by the library are:

• create, modify, and extract archive files
• caching
• database connections
• parse & create feeds
• charting (line, bar & other graphs)
• e-mail, URL, input management & more..

eZ Components is very well-documented, provides examples at every step & has an active development.

DataTables is a jQuery plugin for adding advanced interaction controls to HTML tables.

It can add pagination, filtering and multi-column sorting functions to tables with ease.

The plugin has multilanguage support & many features that make it flexible:

• Smart handling of column widths
• State saving
• Hidden columns
• Dynamic creation of tables
• Ajax auto loading of data
• Alternative pagination types
• Sorting column(s) highlighting

DataTables can also be extended with the plug-in support it provides & its look can be totally customized via CSS.

Xinha is a powerful & open source HTML (WYSIWYG) editor.

It is a community-built script presenting various options for max. customization.

It has lots of plugins that can be activated like:

• Character counter
• Find & replace
• Image manager
• HtmlTidy
• Spell checker & more.

It is possible to configure which features/menus to be displayed, whether coding inside will be permitted or not & almost anything that may be needed.

Agile Carousel is a feature-rich jQuery plugin for creating attractive image sliders.

With a bunch of options to customize the slider, and it can be used with or without jQuery UI for more effects, the plugin provides total control.

From a folder mentioned, it gets the images via PHP (not Ajaxed).

Some controls it has are:

• Prev-next button options
• Enable-disable slide captions
• Effects used, delays
• Use of watermarks (text)
• & many more..

A demo with all the features can be found here.

CASA Lib (formerly CASA Framework) is a flexible ActionScript library for coding more reliable & faster.

It provides a core set of classes, interfaces, utilities & has AS2 – AS3 versions.

It standardizes the loading of external files with an easy-to-use and consistent API.

And, it has a powerul garbage collection with a common destroy(); method.

CASA Lib has lots of features that can "almost always" help in a Flash coding task.

The library is also well-documented with explanations/examples of every class & utility.

Google just launched their web browser Google Chrome.

Good news is; developers won’t have to test designs in one more browser as it uses the open source WebKit (the engine Safari uses).

From a developer’s point of view, Chrome shows us how Google sees the future of web applications with faster JavaScript rendering via V8, using WebKit as the rendering engine (serious support for SVG, etc..) & more.

Besides the standard Google Chrome product page, here is the page that is designed specially for web developers.

And, there is Chromium which is the open-source project behind Google Chrome.

This is an open source 3D album component for Flex which is similar to the Cooliris’s (formerly PicLens) attractive interface.

The component is inspired from the 3D album tutorial of Bartek Drozdz.

The download package includes examples besides the source code for easier developing.

Flare is an ActionScript library for visualizing data like creating charts, graphs and complex interactive graphics.

The library supports data management, visual encoding, animation, and interaction techniques. It provides a modular design which enables you to create customized techniques easier.

Flare has a tutorial which will help you to start using it and its API is well documented.

To see its power, check the demos.

jQuery Sparklines is a plugin for creating sparklines on the fly.

What is a sparkline:

They are data-intense, design-simple, word-sized graphics that are commonly used in market, stock activity and can be implemented anywhere (via Wikipedia).

This plugin supports:

• Line graphs
• Bar charts
• And, tristate charts

jQuery Sparklines plugin can be used to create graphs from data inside the HTML or via JavaScript. Almost every variable of it can be customized including colors, size & chart type.

Flickr’s Flash file uploader is one of the most functional uploaders a developer can think of.

It supports:

• Multiple file selection in a single "Open File" dialog.
• File extension filters for easier selection.
• Upload progress tracking.
• Filename, size, date created, date modified, and author can easily be extrated.

This flash file uploader is avaliable as the YUI Uploader component.

You can also include additional data in the upload POST request.

And, upload component provides faster file upload on broadband connections due to the modified SEND buffer size.