When sharing codes on a website, even they are wrapped with code tags or styled differently, it is always a challenge to read them without syntax highlighting.

There are various syntax highlighters which can format the codes & color them appropriately according to the languages used. Whether it is a HTML page or runs on PHP, Ruby, Python, ASP, there is a suitable syntax highlighter.

And, here is a collection of 11 Syntax Highlighters To Beautify Code Presentation:

GeSHi (Generic Syntax Highlighter – With PHP)

GeSHi is a powerful syntax highlighter script that supports almost every language.

It is first created for phpBB forum system but became a project itself. It requires PHP to run (there is also a hack to make it work under ASP).

SyntaxHighlighter (With JS)

This is a flexible & extensible syntax highlighter built with JavaScript. It supports a wide range of languages from CSS to PHP or C++ to SQL.

SyntaxHighlighter offers ready-to-use themes an new ones can be created easily for a custom presentation.

It has support for 3rd party applications like Blogger, Wordpress, Joomla & many others.

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Classic ASP is losing its popularity, or already lost it. On the other hand, there are many developers who use it.

And, it is hard to find new & exciting projects about classic ASP but here is one: ajaxed, an ASP library with built-in Ajax support.

With the release of ajaxed 2, the library is very mature, well documented & supported with examples.

It includes a debugging tool (Logger), has an e-mail wrapper, datagrid, a validator control & much more.

ajaxed is also fully UTF-8 compatible and has support for MySQL, MSSQL, sqlite, MS Access & Oracle.

It is a great library to speed up the development process for classic ASP developers.

FusionCharts Free is a charting component for creating good looking, data-driven & free animated flash charts.

It can be used with PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, ColdFusion, simple HTML pages or even PowerPoint Presentations.

The component is the free version of FusionCharts & missing some features when compared with the paid one. But it is still powerful & supports:

• 2D / 3D column & bar charts
• 2D/3D pie & doughnut charts
• Line charts
• Area charts
• Stacked charts
• Gantt charts & more..

Another nice feature is the ability to combine different chart types in one chart.

The Web Platform Installer Beta (Web PI), makes it easier to create a web development environment on your PC.

It provides a single, free package for installing and configuring Microsoft’s entire Web Platform, including:

• IIS7
• Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition
• SQL Server 2008 Express Edition
• .NET Framework.

You can mention whether you’re an ASP.Net developer or even choose support for specific features like ASP, SQL Server driver for PHP, etc. besides installing the complete Microsoft Web Platform

Considering the IIS version to be installed is IIS7, the installer is compatible with Vista & Microsoft Server 2008.

Internet Captcha is a Flash-based captcha script which can be generated online with a configuration interface.

It lets you define all the variables of the captcha including the distortion level, color, Flash effect & more.

The configuration wizard created the necessary JavaScript and ASP / PHP files and shows how to install this captcha script step by step.

One nice feature of Internet Captcha is, it shows you the security level of the captcha you designed.

VCalendar is an open source web calendar application for posting and maintaining events and schedules online, in a calendar format.

VCalendar comes with source code in multiple programming languages: PHP, ASP and ASP.NET (C# and VB.NET).

Some features of this free calendar application:

• Localization features with language selectable by end-users (initially English & Russian)
• Dynamic CCS (stylesheet) styles, selectable by end-users
• Annual, monthly, weekly and daily calendar views
• Multiple categories for classifying calendar events
• Recurring and all-day events
• Role-based user permissions and calendar configuration

Snipplr is a website where you can store / share your code snippets and find the ones that are already shared by other users.

It is great to find real-world working code examples with an organized interface which saves a lot of time.

Snipplr covers almost every language from ASP, ASP.NET, PHP to Ruby, Django or AS3.

A feature I like is seeing the codes shared by a specific user (nice feature for following users whose coding style is much familiar to you).

Snipplr is absolutely a must-bookmark for a developer.

Convert HTML To ASP, PHP Or JSP? The title might seem fancier than the reality.

Response.Right is a web based tool which converts HTML into a variable (which is, probably, one of the top 10 hated tasks of a web developer).

This tool is very useful, for example, when creating a html mail that will be sent via a dynamic scripting language or converting large amounts of html that will be used inside these dynamic languages.

Supported programming languages:

• ASP – Javascript
• ASP – VBScript
• JSP
• PHP

Accessify.com offers some other free web based tools like Insta-Select (XHTML-compliant select list generator), Acrobot (converts all your acronyms/abbreviations using the <acronym> and <abbr> tag) & more.