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Right from the start of this blog I was looking for some wordpress plugin which properly indent, highlight and format any programming code in wordpress and display it with proper syntax highlighting. And eventually I am able to find the magic plugin - it is CodeHighlighter Plugin. Just download it, upload it in your plugin folder and enable it. You can see examples of how to use it for different languages like C++, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Java, Python, CSS and HTML on this Page.

With this plugin, I am also able to convert my ugly wxWidget tutorial page to much more good looking

One little known open-source tool for PHP developers is the powerful TinyButStrong template engine.  Using it can help you build a theme based website fast, and allow users to even upload themes and try them out if you give them the API for your code.

Here is the website: http://www.tinybutstrong.com/

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Recently Yahoo has released THE KILLER APP for Javascript (and AJAX as well) applications and the internet- namely the Yahoo User Interface engine (YUI). When combined with PHP this can create a very rich and fast application interface, one that easily parallels the experience of a desktop program. You can Grab YUI from here: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/

Now, one of the very few flaws in this engine is that documentation doesn’t come right out and tell you how to use PHP with it. Instead, you have to dig around and try and put together what you already know about web-programming, and also change your thought on how web applications are built and run.

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