- An interesting MSDN article about how memory leaks come about in IE and its JavaScript engine.
- A nice summary of how to implement JSON data transfer from the client to the server in PHP AJAX web applciatons.
- Until ActionScript 3.0 in Flash 9 becomes widely available, this is a useful technique for customizing the class used to represent the root of a Flash movie while requiring a minimum of code (only one line, in fact) in the FLA.
- A nice run-down of the tools that are at your disposal for controlling how Googlebot indexes the pages on your site.
- Matt Griffith shows off InstantRails in a screencast. InstantRails lets you run Ruby on Rails (incl. Apache and MySQL) on Windows by unzipping a file and running the included program. Uninstalling is as simple as deleting the directory.
- A very nice network analysis, monitoring, and troubleshooting tool for Windows, free for personal use.
- Web Design from Scratch is redesigning 50 real web site home pages from scratch. The before and after results (along with copious design notes) will be published as a free PDF and a glossy book. The two preview redesigns are worth a read.
- The keynote presentations for RailsConf 2006 are being made available for free online streaming, and eventually download. Synchronized slide display is also on its way.
- Julien Couvreur dissects and explains what little is known about Yahoo!’s upcoming browser-based authentication technology for enabling secure cross-domain access to services within AJAX applications.
- A proposed specification for using JSON as an RPC protocol with similar scope to XML-RPC. A Python implementation is provided.
- An impressive matrix of known CSS hacks showing which browsers will respond to each. We don’t recommend CSS hacks, but occasionally they can be useful.
- Some general, but inspiring tips on building a web site that will drive your business forward — not hold it back.
- Yahoo! pushes out another update to the Yahoo! User Interface Library, including color animation features, improved drag & drop performance, documentation for object inheritance, support for AJAX file uploads, and a new Logger control.
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