Last week I was working on a web page with several ajax calls. The process was something like this:
The first time the page loads it has some javascript in it. Then based on user's selection, some ajax calls would be made to the server and the server returns a block of page and that block would be inserted somewhere inside the html body. The returned block also has some javascript in it.

If you have a vocabulary with several terms in your drupal 5 web site, you may want to show list of recent items in that vocabulary in a block or a page. I tried to do this with views module, but I could only show nodes
belong to one specific term, and that was not what I had in mind.

There are many version control programs out there. But I think Subversion recently has become the first choice for programmers. It is easy to install, easy to use and most importantly, it is free.
When it comes to client programs, there are many choices out there. I played with several client programs and I want to share my experience with you.
Note that the platforms I use are Windows XP and Linux (Centos 5). Why do I use Centos? That’s another article for another time.

Since couple of months ago I switched to Eclipse. Especially for PHP. Before that, I worked a little with Delphi for PHP. Although I'm a Delphi fan and I have been using Delphi IDE for more than 10 years, but I found Delphi for PHP lacks many good features of Classic Delphi. The components (VCL for PHP) is a great start, but again it is still on its first stage and honestly, I think Code Gear rushed into bringing it to the market. There are many bugs and we should yet wait for a stable version. After Delphi for PHP, I found Eclipse with PDT plugin which is a plugin for PHP development.