Slides is a jQuery plugin for creating a simple and clean image slider.

Unlike many other image sliders, Slides skips to the desired image without “in-between” slides.

So, if you want to get to image 1 from image 5, you get to it without delay.

Although Slides is very simple, it does have options: you can add image preloading; choose the starting slide; add pause on hover; etc.

You can find a demo on the plugin’s homepage.

• Website: http://slidesjs.com/

Fuel is a fresh CodeIgniter CMS with a focus set on flexibility and rapid website setup.

Amongst Fuel’s features are integrated 3rd party services like Google, WordPress and PhpMyAdmin.

What you’ll like:

• Obviously, CodeIgniter developers would favor this CMS
• Cool WYSIWYG editing
• An easy-to-use interface
• Extensive, straight to the point docs
• Eased migration (you can, for example, import existing static pages)

What you won’t like:

• Few add-ons (well, Fuel is still in its infancy).
• No community

• Website: http://www.getfuelcms.com/

jNotify is a nice plugin for notifying the user when actions (AJAX calls, etc) are completed on your site.

Basically, jNotify counters the problem of alert()’s abusive nature, enhancing the user experience.

jNotify can create two kinds of notifications: “stickies” and regular notifications.

Stickies stick around for a while, and disappear when closed – use this for important messages. Regular notifications cannot be closed (except if you write the code otherwise), and disappear automatically, after a set time.

There are options, too. You can set the amount of time for which a notification will appear; you can also edit the background via CSS classes.

Although jNotify is reinventing the wheel a little, jNotify’s small size (3kb) makes the plugin competitive and cool.

• Website: http://www.givainc.com/labs/jnotify_jquery_plugin.htm
• Demo: http://www.givainc.com/labs/jnotify_jquery_plugin.htm#example

PyroCMS is a content management system built upon the CodeIgniter framework.

There are hundreds (if not thousands) of content management systems; why should you use this one?

Obviously, you’d use it if you were a CodeIgniter developer, but even if you aren’t, there’s still some candy left:

• Easy themes (some PHP knowledge required)
• Web integration
• Ridiculously simple backend interface
• Regular updates
• Numerous widgets (Twitter feed, HTML code, etc)

• Website: http://pyrocms.com/

Vaadin is a Java framework for developing full-scale web applications. Probably not the fastest ones.

OK, Java jokes are bad. Especially since Vaadin feels pretty damn powerful.

Vaadin is pure Java, and comes together with HTML/CSS templates, dozens of widgets, and all that good jazz.

It’s also pretty compatible: Vaadin runs on IE6 (!!!!), doesn’t require browser plugins. It shouldn’t, however, run on Opera’s older versions (below 10).

See this list for more features.

• Website: http://vaadin.com/home
• Demo: http://vaadin.com/demo

Play is a Java framework for developing web applications.

It comes together with the Groovy templating system and is packaged to be REST-ready.

Furthermore, Play offers quick error solving and provides integration with OpenID, Hibernate and Memcached.

And last, but not least, the developers claim that Play is really fast.

Java jokes haven’t resurfaced yet – so it’s safe to use Java again!

• Website: http://www.playframework.org/