Jul 6, 2006 News Wire

By Kevin Yank

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Linux and Web Development Intro

A web developer makes the switch to Linux and chronicles the experience.

(tags: opensource)
Wufoo Launches!

Wufoo is a tool that allows anyone to build an online form using a slick in-browser interface, and then publish it. The site collects all submitted responses and gives you the tools to browse those results, including export to Excel.

(tags: html design)
ASP.NET 2 + url rewriting considered harmful in some cases

An awesome new feature of Google Sitemaps shows off the errors encountered by Google when indexing your site. In particular, this has revealed a potentially serious SEO drawback of rewriting URLs in ASP.NET 2.

(tags: asp.net google search)
Anthem.NET

Newly updated to version 1.4.0, this AJAX library for ASP.NET blends in with the server-side control model that ASP.NET developers are already experienced with (view state, events, etc.).

(tags: asp.net ajax opensource)
CJD seeks FOL

Robert Hanson, who is heading up the effort to build an open source widget library for Google Web Toolkit (GWT) complains about the legalities of “giving away” software for “free”.

(tags: opensource)
SSH tricks

Do you secretly wish you understood SSH (secure shell)? Dispair no longer! This article lays out exactly what it can do in plain English.

(tags: opensource network)
16 Elements You Must Include in Your Site Design

Some mostly solid advice of building a site that will be found by search engines.

(tags: search html)
Free your mind — write some free software

A short-and-sweet treatise on the joys of getting into open source software development.

(tags: opensource programming)
Browser Fun

This blog is revealing a new browser vulnerability for every day in the month of July. Predictably, most are for Internet Explorer 6, though Firefox will take a few hits as well.

(tags: ie security firefox)
“gnoos” Aussie blog aggregator

A blog search tool for locating and searching Australian blogs.

(tags: search)

Meet the author

Kevin Yank

Kevin began developing for the Web in 1995 and is a highly respected technical author. Kev is a world-renowned author, speaker and JavaScript expert. He has a passion for making web technology easy to understand by anyone. Yes, even you!