Jun 9, 2006 News Wire

A growing list of examples demonstrating the capabilities of jQuery, a simple (but powerful) JavaScript library for AJAX and special effects.

Deflate is the new gzip. Follow this guide to configure Apache 2 and save bandwidth.

Vista Beta 2 containing IE7+ Beta 2 is now publicly available for download. It’s a 3.5GB (32bit) or 4.4GB (64bit) download, or you can order the DVD for a small fee.

A series of 15 short-and-sweet tutorials for jQuery, a simple (but powerful) JavaScript library for AJAX and special effects.

Interesting rant claiming that today PHP does little but promote poor coding practices, and everything MySQL can do either PostgreSQL or SQLite can do better.

Google’s latest pre-release web application brings shared spreadsheets to the Web. Some cute AJAX, but really there are better options out there (like ThinkFree Online).

TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington rants about how Google gets huge PR for very ho-hum announcements, like Google Spreadsheets.

Updated version of a JavaScript library to make page elements editable and submit the changes using AJAX.

Supporting the Back/Forward buttons in single-page AJAX apps is possible in all major browsers except Safari right now. That may be about to change.

As the primary sponsor of the free Eclipse IDE, IBM has published a lot of tutorials about it. Here are the top 27.

A brief article discussing how best to indicate the availability of alternative-language content on the web. If you’re just using country flag icons, you should read this.

An inspiring opinion piece calling into question the motives of the so-called Web 2.0. Are we all failing our potential?

These extensive updates will make it to Google Maps, and will appear in your own mashups, soon.

Google Spreadsheets competitor wikiCalc to be bundled with SocialText, providing the shared editing of Google Spreadsheets without the need to store your data on Google servers.

As the U.S. House of Representatives rejects net neutrality, some parties are mocking the proposal by suggesting it should apply to companies like Amazon and Google.

Demonstrates some of the more obscure aspects of HTTP authentication and SSL connections using PHP’s cURL library.