Jul 3, 2006 News Wire

• Can You Hear Me Now?
  Did you assume aural style sheets were little more than a pleasant fiction? It turns out that several client programs do support them (Emacspeak, Fonix SpeakThis, and Opera among them). This article explains the basics.
  (tags: css accessibility)
• SIMILE Timeline
  A nice DHTML timeline control, with a few caveats. I found it a bit challenging to use without detailed instructions. Current implementation requires timeline data come from an XML source, but the API would allow for more accessible options.
  (tags: javascript ajax xml)
• Digging Alexa - how the geek demographic doubled overnight
  Jason Striegel comes up with a very convincing explanation for the huge spike in the ratings of technology sites on Alexa in April 2006. It turns out the catalyst was Digg overtaking Slashdot’s Alexa ranking.
  (tags: search)
• Mr. Firefox looks to the future
  Blake Ross, the co-creator of Firefox, talks about where Firefox is at as it approaches 2.0, what effect IE7 will have on the browser space, and a secret start-up he is working on with Joe Hewitt (of recent FireBug fame).
  (tags: firefox)
• Current issues with Microformats
  Emil Stenström points out some of the downsides of microformats (e.g. they don’t use namespaces), and suggests how they might be addressed (e.g. meta tags to declare microformat versions in use).
  (tags: microformats)
• Eclipse 3.2 & Callisto Now Available for Download
  Callisto, the Eclipse simultaneous release of Eclipse 3.2 final as well as 10 sub projects is now available for download.
  (tags: java)
• What’s New in Eclipse 3.2 Java Development Tools
  A quick history of Eclipse’s Java Development Tools (JDT), followed by a full run-down on what’s new in the Eclipse 3.2 version of JDT.
  (tags: java)
• Zend Framework 0.1.4 Preview Release
  This latest preview of the “official” framework for PHP web applications (which is actually quite usable if you only use the working bits) includes a number of new components, as well as a manual translated into 10 languages.
  (tags: php)
• Fusebox 5
  Fusebox 5 was publicly released at CFUNITED. This page describes the changes. Although I’m always wary of framework releases with the words “ground-up rewrite” in them, this actually looks rather nice.
  (tags: coldfusion)
• Rails 1.1.4: Security fix without breakage
  Rails 1.1.3 fixed the security bug. Rails 1.1.4 fixes the problem with 1.1.3.
  (tags: rubyonrails)
• Free Patterns and Practices Guidance Explorer for ASP.NET and .NET
  As with any complex platform, .NET comes with a whole stack of “dos” and “don’ts”. This free tool from Microsoft lets you browse the official library of recommended practices and design patterns for ASP.NET and the .NET platform.
  (tags: .net asp.net)
• What’s New in Edge Rails: The Ins and Outs of ActiveResource
  The newest upcoming feature in Rails is ActiveResource, which promises to embrace the RESTful model of application development by making it easy to build full web applications around the REST operations.
  (tags: rubyonrails)
• Tip/Trick: List Running ASP.NET Worker Processes and Kill/Restart them from the command-line
  This is news to me. Windows has command-line task list and kill task tools. This post shows how they can be used to terminate hung ASP.NET processes.
  (tags: asp.net)
• New Atlas CTP Posted (now includes updatepanel support in dynamic controls)
  The June pre-release of Microsoft’s Atlas toolkit for AJAX applications is out, with the ability to embed AJAX-updateable page regions within dynamically generated ASP.NET controls.
  (tags: asp.net ajax)

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