Hello all from sunny Florida :) Recently discovered jquery validation plugin only 6 years too late, and have found some tools that work in conjunction with it, including Pajama, a PHP library. Also have some links to font combination articles and tools, and have recently been using "parallel deployment" in Tomcat 7.

The Pajama PHP library does "hybrid validation" and follows the rules of the jQuery validation plugin but for the server side. You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page player or by downloading the mp3. You can also subscribe to their feed to get the latest shows.