If Merb is a paragon of professionalism and class, Shoes is a monkey on LSD. Shoes, by why the lucky stiff, is an incredibly compact cross-platform GUI toolkit for Ruby, but it looks nothing like the other cross-platform toolkits out there. For one thing, it is lightweight. Shoes lets you build GUIs in Ruby whose code actually looks like Ruby, not XML or Java. We are going to build a pastebin as a repository for our own code snippets and pieces of text we want to save. We'll build a GUI frontend using Shoes, and connect it to a Merb backend that will handle the database. In fact, the basic proof of concept took the two of us about an hour to get working, and it took another hour to finish. Without further ado, we present our pastebin application, using Shoes and Merb, Shmerboes. Creating a Simple YAML-Based Web Service with Merb
qooxdoo is an advanced open-source JavaScript-based GUI framework. It helps you to implement AJAX-enhanced web 2.0 applications - easier than ever before.
PMPU is oriented around the typical "Push / Pull" workflow of distributed SCMs; as such it is designed to make it easy to see what changes are arriving from remote repositories and what changes are due to be pushed upstream. It also has support for creating changeset bundles and for importing both bundles and patches; these are primarily useful when interacting with the development process via e-mail. Rather than re-invent the wheel, PMPU can make use of external history views and commit tools. For mercurial repositories, I recommend the 'hgk' or hgview viewers and the excellent Qct commit tool.
(WWB) is a Wicket component toolkit for displaying and editing JavaBeans. Web pages are automatically generated based on bean properties and conventions. If necessary, the layout, editability, and actions of these pages can be customized. At the highest-level, WWB's BeanForm component provides rich AJAX form functionality. The form is embedded in a Page designed by you. This allows you to create customized page designs and multiple BeanForms to be incorporated on a single page.Other lower-level components may be used independently of BeanForm (e.g., BeanGridPanel). BeanForm makes it very convenient to implement a bean-based form if you don't want to go to a lot of extra work. You focus on the model (beans), Fields within a form are dynamically sent back to the server-side bean as they are changed, which eliminates the typical form submit cycle. This makes WWB act more like a rich client application and less like a standard forms-based application.
* padded block links * typesetting buttons * contrast to manage focus * color to manage attention * white space for relationships * letter spacing * auto-focus on input * custom input focus * hover controls * verbs in labels