- 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.
- An up-to-date list of the top 100 network security tools, as voted by the nmap-hackers security list.
- A major new release of the Python language, 2.5 contains plenty of bug fixes, speed boosts, and even new language features.
- 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!
- A free e-book that covers exactly what it says. A great introduction to a topic too-often ignored by ASP.NET developers.
- 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.
- 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.
- A useful (and gorgeously unobtrusive) script that will automatically generate pullquotes and enable you to style them with CSS.
- 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.
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