When you start a new business with a consumer focus, you more than often found that the available budget for software is minimal. With this in mind, when the guys behind Jitsu (who like free and open-source technologies like Apache, Linux, MySql) couldn’t find any open source Ajax frameworks that supported compiled XML and data binding, they decided to build their own, and they released their work under an open source license for the good of the community.

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If you're a purist, you're most probably coding everything by hand. HTML, templates, CSS, javascript... Everything. But wheter you rely on your own libraries or on existing frameworks or templates, there always comes a time when you'll be doing things that eat your time.

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Whether you’ve forgotten the name of a function or the property of a cascading style sheet, these quick reference maps deliver the information you are looking for - immediately. Most of those are provided as .pdf or .png-files, so you can print them and use them every day for whatever projects you’re currently working on.

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Smart Lists is light-weight (8KB) javascript applet, created by Benjamin Keen, that lets you convert "flat" HTML lists of information into categorized, paginated lists. In essence, it's a presentation layer for improving the readability of related information, without requiring a database or server-side script.

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When it comes to dropdown menus, there are a lot of different coding techniques. Some rely on pure javascript, most on a mixed javascript+CSS approach. To our knowledge, very few utilize the pure CSS methodology, which primarely consist of leveraging original CSS attributes of standard HTML elements.

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Lets face it, forms are boring, validation is a pain. It’s time to inject some life into them, make them fun again!

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Prototype is one of the coolest javascript frameworks available to developers. And since it's been massively adopted by the community, multiple plugins and snippets were created by enthusiast contributors.

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JSLoader is a dead-simple, non-intrusive "Javascript-on-demand" packaging convention which helps developers and the internet community rapidly develop and prototype applications without the headache of figuring out the witches' brew of files that need to be copied, included, etc. You do not need to download anything to use all the Javascript frameworks. it is because multiple sites will share this code the browser and proxy caches will help make things more efficient.

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