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The “official” PHP web development framework nears its first release.
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The codename for Visual Basic 10, that’s what! Microsoft is still working to finalize the upcoming VB 9 release, but it has developed a wishlist for VB 10, which will return to the language’s dynamic roots by bringing it to the Dynamic Language Runtime.
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The next major release of GWT is almost ready for release. It features smaller script sizes, quicker startup times, a handful of powerful, new widgets, and the ImageBundle, which combines multiple images into a single file to boost performance.
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In an exclusive podcast interview, Dojo announces that its Dojo Offline library for supporting offline storage in browser-based web applications has already been updated to use the just-announced Google Gears offline storage engine by default.
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In a deal worth US$280m, US media giant CBS has acquired the music-based social networking site Last.fm.
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There’s some serious design inspiration to be found in this list of sites, books, and get-off-your-butt activities. (thanks jamesbooker)
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Rapid-fire screenshot reviews of client-side image galleries and related scripts. (thanks jamesbooker)
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WHAT-WG member Lachlan Hunt summarizes (at great length) the current situation in the W3C HTML Working Group.
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Eclipsed by the amazing “Street View”, Google simultaneously launched a developer preview of its new Mapplets API. The API enables mashups and overlays to integrate directly into the Google Maps site, so users can mix and match their favourites.
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Kevin Yank is an accomplished web developer, speaker, trainer and author of Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL and Co-Author of Simply JavaScript and Everything You Know About CSS is Wrong! Kevin loves to share his wealth of knowledge and it didn't stop at books, he's also the course instructor to 3 online courses in web development. Currently Kevin is the Director of Front End Engineering at Culture Amp.
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