Oct 24, 2006 News Wire
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An IE 7 change that was announced at the last minute was a change in the behaviour of locale-based content negotiation (serving a different page based on the user’s language). W3C Internationalization lead Richard Ishida considers the new behaviour a bug.
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Ajaxian is providing some excellent coverage of the sessions at The Ajax Experience in Boston this week.
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A .NET developer makes the switch to Mac OS X and writes about running Visual Studio 2005 on his mac using Parallels Desktop. (thanks spiky_simon)
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The release includes new accessibility features, charting, 2D vector graphics, slick API documentation, and 529 bug fixes.
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A brief history of the Ruby programming language, as presented at RubyConf 2006.
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An interesting addition to the world of JavaScript tools, though a bit too low-level, I suspect, to really catch on. Clorox lets you access server-side data structures as if they were ordinary JavaScript variables by “compiling” to AJAX JSON requests.
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Suggesting that many high profile sites are forgetting the valuable lessons taught six years ago by Steve Krug’s seminal work, “Don’t Make Me Think”, this blog post offers up three ways in which corporate web sites should be looking to suck less.
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Announcing phpwomen.org, “a new initiative to bring together the women that work with PHP throughout the world.”
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