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The new version of Internet Explorer is out! As Microsoft claims, Internet Explorer 8 is the first browser fully compatible with modern standarts. Also it have improved performance and extensive set of tools for developers.

Microsoft shipped out final version of ASP.NET MVC. This is the first officially supported release for the ASP.NET MVC.

Silverlight 3 Beta was unveiled at MIX09. It is a preview release which continues Silverlight’s track record of rapid innovation - introducing more than 50 new features, including support for running Silverlight applications out of the browser, dramatic video performance and quality improvements, and features that radically improve developer productivity. Combined with the continued innovation in Visual Studio and Expression Blend, Silverlight 3 empowers .NET developers to create cutting-edge Rich Internet Applications and media experiences.

QooXdoo 0.8.2. released. This release has following new features:

• Inspector, a cross-browser debugging tool a la Firebug.
• Tons of improvements and bugfixes over the previous version.
• Tested for all common browsers, including betas like IE8.
• Optimized packaging and loading of qooxdoo applications.
• CSS3 selector engine and a jQuery-like low-level API.
• Preview of the upcoming data binding layer.
• Preview of the new infrastructure for virtual widgets.

You can download free ASP.NET MVC eBook Tutorial. This eBook covers all basic aspects of ASP.NET MVC 1.0 which will be released soon.

John Resig posts a new article in which he tells about JavaScript function profiling. In this article he demonstrates some tools for profiling and shows the final results of tests.

Antonio Lupetti posts a collection of spell checkers based on AJAX technology.

Authors of Mozilla Weblog tells how to create cross-browser inline block.

An article from Dino Esposito in which he tells about MVP pattern.

The members of Mozille development team posts an interesting article about one of important features of Firefox 3.1 the native JSON support. This article contains several short code examples which demonstrates usage of this feature.

Authors of Switch on the Code site posts a tutorial in which they tells how to create Slideshow on your site using jQuery library. You can view the result of this tutorial directly in the article. Also you can download the source codes of the demo examples.

The Golden Grid is a web grid system. Authors of this framework writes that it 's a product of the search for the perfect modern grid system and it's meant to be a CSS tool for grid based web sites.

You can view the new video about ASP.NET 4.0 features on Channel 9 site. This video demonstrates how ASP.NET AJAX can be leveraged in a complete client-side environment, making it easier to develop rich web applications.

Authors of Desizn Tech site posts very useful and easy for understanding tutorial about creating WordPress themes. From this tutorial you will learn how to create WordPress theme from scratch.

John Resig gave a talk about performance improvements in browsers. In this talks he covers the new browsers, their JavaScript engines and their JavaScript performance

Novell reports about Moonlight 1.0 release. Available for all major Linux distributions, including openSUSE®, SUSE® Linux Enterprise, Fedora, Red Hat, and Ubuntu, this release is in part a result of the existing technical collaboration between Microsoft and Novell that extends interoperability between Windows and Linux. Windows Media Video (.wmv), Windows Media Audio (.wma) and MP3 files are supported through the Microsoft Media Pack, a Microsoft-delivered set of media codecs that brings optimized and licensed decoders to every Linux user using Moonlight. Additionally, it allows developers to write Rich Internet Applications for multiple platforms.

JavaScriptMVC is a framework that brings methods to the madness of JavaScript development. It guides you to successfully completed projects by promoting best practices, maintainability, and convention over configuration.

Bespin is a Mozilla Labs experiment on how to build an extensible Web code editor using HTML 5 technology that proposes an open, extensible web-based framework for code editing that aims to increase developer productivity, enable compelling user experiences, and promote the use of open standards.

Matt Raible posts an article in which he describes the testing process of GWT applications step by step. Also you will find several interesting links on articles about this topic

Wei-Meng Lee posts an article in which he shows how to work with SQLlite databases in Android.

Leniel Macaferi posts an interesting tutorial in which he shows how to use recently released ASP.NET charting control with MVC and Google Spreadsheet API.

Experts from Microsoft posted an interesting screencast about Live Framework. In this screencast you'll learn how to get a Live Services token and what you need to download in order to start writing Live Framework applications.

The new issue of The Week In Edge Rails is out. This times authors covers such topics as nested form support in Active Record and Action Pack, Rails guides rework and Scaffolding changes.

Opera developers reports about new JavaScript engine called Carakan. It was improved in following three main areas: register-based bytecode, native code generation and automatic object classification.

JS Charts is a free JavaScript based chart generator that requires little or no coding. With JS Charts drawing charts is a simple and easy task, since you only have to use client-side scripting (i.e. performed by your web browser). No additional plugins or server modules are required.

John Resig gives an interesting talk in the Yahoo about the DOM. You can view this video and browse the slides in his blog.

SyntaxHighliter 2.0 was released recently. As author reports it was nearly complete rewrite. Many bugs was fixed and new funclionality was added,

Steve Sanderson posts an article in which he shows how you can use the source code of ASP.NET MVC framework for debugging your applications.

The first release candidate of Rails 2.3 is out. It has following new features:

• Templates: Allows your new skeleton Rails application to be built your way with your default stack of gems, configs, and more.
• Engines: Share reusable application pieces complete with routes that Just Work, models, view paths, and the works.
• Rack: Rails now runs on Rack which gives you access to all the middleware goodness.
• Metal: Write super fast pieces of optimized logic that routes around Action Controller.
• Nested forms: Deal with complex forms so much easier.

Charlie Key posts an article in which he demonstrates how you can show the hand cursor in your Flex applications.

JSXGraph is a cross-browser library for interactive geometry, function plotting, graphs, and data visualization in a web browser. It is implemented completely in JavaScript and uses SVG and VML.

GWT-MVC project's aim is to create a layer on top Google Web Toolkit's widget library capable of implementing Web 2.0 RIAs in easier and more conceptually guided way based on Model-View-Controller (MVC) architectural and design pattern.

Authors of Noupe site posts an interesting collection of usefu WordPress tutorials and plugins.

YUI developers team reports about upgrading graded browser support. You can read more in YUI Blog.

Scott Guthrie reports about release of the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RC1. There is a several interesting enchancements in this release as a Visual Studio Tooling improvements and file handling improvements.

Brandon Cannaday posts an article in which he tells about Silverlight Deep Zoom on a O'Reilly site example.

Authors of devSnippets site posts an interesting collection of various useful CSS snippets.

John Resig posts an article in which he tells about OCR and neural nets in JavaScripts. He also reviews the script written by the Shawn Fridle.

YUI developers team posts a new issue of YUI in the Wild! - a collection of links related to YUI JavaScript library.

Fabien Potencier tellls some details about future Symfony 1.3 release. As he writes the Symfony 1.3 will be released not sooner than November 2009.

Antonio Lupetti has gathered a collection of datepickers written on JavaScript.

Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Release Candidate 1. It has several bugfixes and improved compatibility with third-party Web sites and programs. The full list of changes you can read in the release notes.

Steve Sanders released xVal -a validation framework for ASP.NET MVC. xVal lets you link up your choice of server-side validation mechanism with your choice of client-side validation library. It guides you to fit them both into ASP.NET MVC conventions, so everything plays nicely with model binding and errors registered in ModelState.

Nicholas Zakas posts two articles in his blog in which he shows how to increase the speed of JavaScript applications. You can read the first and second chapters in his blog