Jul 5, 2006 News Wire

Firefox extension that uses the browser’s canvas support (not Java, as other solutions do) to capture an image of the visible area or full area of a page.

A rare error message from Google gives a glimpse behind the scenes at the algorithms that go into the search engine.

The technical sessions from JavaOne 2006 are now available online for free viewing. Each session offers streaming audio from the presentation along with synchronized slides. Sadly, no live video of the demos.

As of June 15th, the Oxford English Dictionary considers “to Google” a verb.

MySQL has joined the Visual Sudio Industry Partner (VSIP) program. Developers can look forward to better integration of MySQL with Visual Studio.

Free Flex competitor Open Laszlo’s first release of its multiple runtime architecture, designed to allow Laszlo apps to render to DHTML as well as Flash. It doesn’t seem very functional as yet, however.

An excellent, plain-English explanation of just what a “closure” is.

An entertaining look at eight design trends that are storming the web!

This article offers some great advice on how to organize those massive CSS files of yours.

The Web Standards Group interviews Gian Sampson-Wild about WCAG 2.0 and her role in its development.