Jun 20, 2006 News Wire

A brief review of Microsoft’s new competitor to Dreamweaver, recently released as a public preview for free download.

More progress on running JavaScript as soon as the document has loaded, but not waiting until external resources like images have loaded. Includes fixes for IE and Safari, and Opera 9 now supports the DOMContentLoaded property like Firefox.

A daunting look at just how bad the spam problem really is.

A look under the hood of PHP’s memory management facilities.

An incisive, if inconclusive look at the current state of play of Java web application frameworks.

A typically venemous reaction to Sun’s announcement that the JDK for Java 6 will include a pure Java database (Apache Derby). Turns out the database won’t be in the JRE, and nobody really asked for it, so is Sun just polluting the Java platform?

This release is looking very stable. Running a number of desktop applications on it 24/7 here and it’s working great. With the final release slated for October, now’s the time to do your compatibility work.

Right on schedule, Opera 9 is now available for free download.

Is there room for blogging in your business model?

Nice series of five articles covering the new Membership and Roles features of ASP.NET 2.0.