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"Flymake is implemented as an Emacs minor mode. It runs the syntax check tool in the background, passing it a temporary copy of the current buffer, and parses the output for known error/warning message patterns. Flymake then highlights erroneous lines (that is, lines for which at least one error or warning has been reported), and displays an overall buffer status in the mode line..."
"JSON is a very lightweight data format based on a subset of the JavaScript syntax, namely array and object literals. Because it uses JavaScript syntax, JSON definitions can be included within JavaScript files and accessed without the extra parsing that comes along with XML-based languages.
"I'm extremely pleased to announce the launch of TraceMonkey, an evolution of Firefox's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine for Firefox 3.1 that uses a new kind of Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler to boost JS performance by an order of magnitude or more..."
"An Erlang IDE based on NetBeans. With syntax checking, syntax highlighting, auto-completion, pretty formatter, occurrences mark, brace matching, indentation, code folding, function navigator, go to declaration, project management, Erlang shell console."
"Ide-skel is a skeleton (or framework) of IDE for Emacs users. Like Eclipse, it can be used as is with some predefined plugins on board, but is designed to extend by Emacs Lisp programmers to suite their own needs. [...] http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/IdeSkel [...] The only currently known external plugin for ide-skel is SqlPlus (http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/SqlPlus)."
"php-mode is responsible for syntax highlighting, indentation, and other major PHP-specific modifications to your editing environment. There are a number of PHP modes available for Emacs. In this project, you’ll learn how to set up the php-mode available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/php-mode/ .
Avidemux is a graphical tool to edit videos. It can open AVI, openDML, MPEG, Nuppelvideo, and BMPs. Most common codecs are supported (M-JPEG, MPEG, DivX, Xvid, huffyuv, WMA, etc.) thanks to libavcodec and libmpeg2. Video can be edited, cut, appended, filtered (resize/crop/denoise), and re-encoded to either AVI (MPEG4/MJPEG) or MPEG 1/2.