Jun 22, 2006 News Wire

Yahoo! Local rolls out support for the hCalendar, hCard and hReview microformats, and points to a number of useful tools for accessing this information.

Google is handing out invites to a new program where instead of getting paid for click-throughs, you can get paid for sales made through your AdSense ads.

Sandy is an ActionScript library for generating 3D graphics in Flash. Looks awesome!

An excellent way to get started in the still-experimental area of building Flex applications with PHP on the server side. A skeletal application ready for you to deploy and then modify.

Before the rest, there was Bindows — perhaps the first mature framework for building desktop-like AJAX applications. Now this framework is the first to support section 508 accessibility for screen readers and magnifiers.

Need to parse esoteric text file formats in PHP? What you need is a parser generator: a script that will take your specification for the text file format and produce a PHP script to parse it. Greg Beaver has ported one to PHP from Lemon, a parser generato

No need to adopt a whole new framework to do AJAX in Java. SweetDEV RIA is a library of standalone AJAX widgets such as a datagrid and multiselect combo boxes that can be plugged into any JSP page. GPL and commercial licenses available.

Magnolia is a popular enterprise-class Java content and document management system. There is a free Community Edition available. 3.0 brings many new features, including major enhancements to the user interface, which is now fully “buzzword compliant”.

A nice discussion of so-called “unconscious design” — the design decisions you can make without even noticing them. Uses WordPress and Broadway Musicals as examples.

A first look at the Spring Framework for Java web application development, based on principles of aspect-oriented programming (AOP) and inversion of control (IoC). Basic Java knowledge is assumed.