Sep 20, 2006 News Wire

• DTrace Meets JavaScript
  DTrace is a slick and powerful profiling tool currently limited to the Solaris platform, but rumored to be coming to an operating system near you. This alpha provider hooks into Firefox’s JavaScript engine. Push past the intro and check out the examples.
  (tags: javascript firefox)
• Top 100 Network Security Tools
  An up-to-date list of the top 100 network security tools, as voted by the nmap-hackers security list.
  (tags: security software network)
• Python 2.5 Release
  A major new release of the Python language, 2.5 contains plenty of bug fixes, speed boosts, and even new language features.
  (tags: python)
• 10 things you (probably) didn’t know about PHP
  A few obvious items in this list, but a number of gems too. Even PHP experts should take a quick look—there might just be a valuable feature or two you didn’t know about!
  (tags: php)
• Threading in C#
  A free e-book that covers exactly what it says. A great introduction to a topic too-often ignored by ASP.NET developers.
  (tags: asp.net .net programming)
• Tip/Trick: Using IIS7 on Vista with VS 2005
  If you’re playing with Windows Vista RC1 as I am and want to get some ASP.NET development done on IIS7, these instructions will enable you to connect Visual Studio 2005 to that new server.
  (tags: iis asp.net)
• September Atlas Control Toolkit Released (Now with Animation Support)
  The Atlas Control Toolkit (a library of widgets built on Microsoft’s Atlas AJAX library) has been updated with some new contribute controls (e.g. a slider) as well as some new client-side animation capabilities.
  (tags: ajax asp.net)
• Automatic pullquotes with JavaScript and CSS
  A useful (and gorgeously unobtrusive) script that will automatically generate pullquotes and enable you to style them with CSS.
  (tags: css javascript design)
• Let your users scroll
  A short treatise on the evils of fixed size layouts. I couldn’t agree more, despite the fact that I currently maintain a couple of sites of this type right now.
  (tags: design usability)

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