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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.