Joshua Thijssen has shared his toolbox for less than $100/month that includes a complete set of development and project tools "on the cheap" but still good.

There are a lot of tools out there which can help you as a developer / self-employed contractor. And even though most of these tools are free (as in beer), I don’t mind spending a certain amount of money on tools that help me do my business. So with all the tools out there, all the paid plans, the freemiums and the trial periods, what can a crispy 100 dollar bill every month buy?

His list includes hosting (ServerGrove), issue tracking (Jira), team communication (HipChat) and online storage (Dropbox). His list is made up of eight services with almost all of them having a small cost. The online collaboration (Basecamp) and hosting (from ServerGrove) are the highest costs at $20USD/month.

New from the CatsWhoCode.com site today there's a list of ten code snippets from Jean-Baptiste Jung that could be "life-saving" in your development.

In order to be efficient, a web developer should have a toolbox with code snippets he can use and reuse when needed. In this article, I'm going to show you 10 extremely useful PHP code snippets to add to your web developer toolbox.

They're not amazing, but that can be very handy in the right situations - things like:

• Highlight specific words in a phrase
• Automatic password creation
• Calculate age using date of birth
• Maintenance mode with PHP
• Add (th, st, nd, rd, th) to the end of a number

On PHPBuilder.com today Scott Clark has posted a review of the Aptana IDE (that supports not only PHP but others like Javascript, CSS, Javascript, etc).

I'd read some articles and news items about Aptana Studio Pro, and after reading that it was not only a PHP IDE, but also a full-featured scripting language editor, I had to give it a look--after all, it's free to download, and I'm always looking for a better hammer for my programmer's toolbox. In this article we'll take it for a spin and let you know how it worked out!

He talks about the installation, some of the features it offers for working with non-PHP languages and a few of the quirks he found in creating his first project. You can find out more about the IDE on the Aptana website.

Smashing Magazine has put together a new post that provides a "Drupal Developers Toolbox" with links to resources all over the web.

After publishing the recent WordPress Developer's Toolbox, there were several Drupal developers calling out for equal coverage. In this post you will find a thorough collection of all kinds of resources that will aid designers and developers working with Drupal-powered websites. This collection is intended to simplify your tasks and save you time when working with Drupal.

They've broken it out into some of the basic components you might need, modules, a few sites offering some design inspiration, themes, tutorials and more.

Smashing Magazine has posted a huge set of resources for the WordPress users out there - a toolbox containing links to tutorials and tips and tricks on various parts of the blogging tool.

With all of the WordPress development that is going on, there is a need for an organized collection of resources to educate, inspire and equip developers to improve the quality and efficiency of their work. This post provides all kinds of WordPress-related resources to do just that.

They've broken it up into a two categories - Helpful Resources and WordPress Tutorials - with topics ranging from working with comments and navigation menus to making your own WordPress theme from scratch.

Rob Allen quickly points out a tool that Lucene users (Zend Framework and otherwise) can use to check out the contents of their indexing files.

If you want to understand what's in your Zend_Search_Lucene index files, then download Luke (http://www.getopt.org/luke/) and point it at the directory containing your index files.

He also includes a screenshot to give you an idea of the interface.

Luke bills itself as: "a handy development and diagnostic tool, which accesses already existing Lucene indexes and allows you to display and modify their contents in several ways [including] view documents / copy to clipboard, selectively delete documents from the index and optimize indexes".

Rob Allen quickly points out a tool that Lucene users (Zend Framework and otherwise) can use to check out the contents of their indexing files.

If you want to understand what's in your Zend_Search_Lucene index files, then download Luke (http://www.getopt.org/luke/) and point it at the directory containing your index files.

He also includes a screenshot to give you an idea of the interface.

Luke bills itself as: "a handy development and diagnostic tool, which accesses already existing Lucene indexes and allows you to display and modify their contents in several ways [including] view documents / copy to clipboard, selectively delete documents from the index and optimize indexes".