• ChatBukkit - A simple chat formatting plugin
• ScrapBukkit - A plugin similar to Essentials, it’s basically an all in one plugin.
• HomeBukkit - A home management plugin, for setting and teleporting to homes.

To get this to work in Windows you will have to follow a few steps.

1. Download Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable from Microsoft
2. Install the Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable installer you just downloaded
3. Download a console that supports ANSI, the Bukkit team recommend ANSICON which can be downloaded from here.
4. Install by following the next set of instructions

1. Find out if you are 32 bit or 64 bit
2. If you are 32 bit then you want to use the x86 folder, otherwise if you are 64 bit you want to use the x64 folder
3. Copy that folder to C:\
4. Rename it to something like ANSIConsole
5. Click “Open command window here”
6. Type ansicon.exe -i
7. Press Enter
8. Close Command Prompt

When installing ANSICON it will come up with a console window and it won’t show any messages, but it has installed. Try it our for your self by doing /say.

Sources:

Update Announcement: Here

joris254′s reply: Here

1. Always think about making your griefing client easy to update, one of the many ways I accomplish this is by putting the least amount of code in Minecraft’s core files and instead putting the bulk of the code in an external class. I do this by creating a class called Methods and putting most of the code in methods. Then in the minecraft file I call the method and pass through the needed variables.
2. Add a comment above all your code with your client name, this will allow you to do a search query and find the code that you have added. Comments can be done like this 

   //Your-client-name-here
   your.random.java.code.here();

3. Comment out any code you remove/change. I find this very useful as it saves you time if anything goes wrong, you can simply uncomment it. Whereas if you don’t then you will have to re-decompile the code which takes a while.

I’ll post some more tips as soon as I think/remember them.

if (boolean == true){
    boolean = false;
} else {
    boolean = true;
}

This code is basically seeing what the value of the boolean is and manually setting it, but there is a quicker and faster way to accomplish this, it’s a one liner:

boolean = !boolean;

This code is basically setting the value of the boolean of what it is not because a boolean only has 2 options true or false.

Which jar file should I use?

Quite simply if you make plugins, you need to use Bukkit.jar for making the plugins, if you are a server owner you want to use Craftbukkit.jar. But lets go into further detail.

Craftbukkit.jar

This file contains all the needed files in order to run a server and plugins. This is the jar you would use to run a server, while it also contains some files for developers it is highly recommended that you do not use it for creating plugins as the Bukkit team themselves have said that they will be removing all developer code from Craftbukkit.jar so that developers are forced to use Bukkit.jar

Bukkit.jar

This file contains the API for creating Bukkit plugins, it CANNOT be used to run a server, it does not contain the required files. Developers use this jar so the they can create and export bukkit plugins easily.

Why are the jars seperated though?

One of the biggest reasons I think is to keep the jar files as small as they can which makes it more lightweight and makes a server run faster and smoother. If you are a server owner you would want it to take the shortest amount of time as possible to update your server, so why waste time also downloading developer files when you don’t need to.

This is the same for developers, the bigger the file, the slower it would be in Eclipse when developing plugins I imagine and there are a lot of other reasons which I will not go over in this post.

I hope I managed to explain as best as I can about which jar file to use if you have any questions then please feel free to post on the forums.

Downloads

Latest RB Bukkit.jar

Latest Beta Bukkit.jar

Latest Development Bukkit.jar (Warning Development builds can be buggy)

Latest RB Craftbukkit.jar

Latest Beta Craftbukkit.jar

Latest Development Craftbukkit.jar (Warning Development builds can be buggy)

Basically I make my method in my Methods class and whenever I need that code to be executed I can code 1 line of code and then pass some constructors through that. If you have no idea what I am talking about then I don’t blame you, I have to be one of the worst people at explaining things but basically what I am trying to say is that I have changed a lot of my code to make the client easier to update.