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• Missing Code Challenge 6 days, 21 hours ago
  
  "Online identity management and single sign-on still doesn't work. Not well enough, anyway. OpenID is a good step forward. So are a bunch of other less familiar approaches. But we still haven't arrived .... "
• Ruby on Rails performance options grow 1 month, 2 weeks ago
  
  Code alone isn't enough to make Ruby fast -- sometimes you need a little help.
• Microsoft and Yahoo! renew their marriage talks 2 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Microhoo: Microsoft and Yahoo! have pulled their chairs back up to the proverbial negotiating table. Citing an unnamed source, The New York Times insists the two giants are now in "active merger talks."
• Is SaaS a savior or 'scary' for the enterprise? 3 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Salesforce.com's CEO Marc Benioff and SAP's chairman Hasso Platnner have at it in spirited debate.
• Steve Souders asks: "How green is your web page?" 4 months, 1 week ago
  
  "Writing faster web pages is great for your users, which in turn is great for you and your company. But it’s better for everyone else on the planet, too."
• Web 2.0: Unsafe At Any Speed? 5 months, 1 week ago
  
  Paul Ferguson, a network architect with antivirus vendor Trend Micro, summed up Web 2.0 as thus: "We're basically training our online users to be exploited."
• HTML 5: A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML 5 months, 4 weeks ago
  
  This specification defines the 5th major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web, HTML. In this version, new features are introduced to help Web application authors, new elements are introduced based on research into prevailing authoring practices, and special attention has been given to defining clear conformance criteria for user agents in an effort to improve interoperability.
• RubyStack 1.0 released 6 months, 1 week ago
  
  The RubyStack project finally reached 1.0! It is a free, all-in-one binary installer for Apache, MySQL, Ruby and the Rails framework. You basically click-click-finish your way to a complete Rails installation, including third-party modules such a Mongrel and ImageMagick. It runs on Windows, Linux and OS X and is distributed under the Apache license.
• Avoid unnecessary Ajax traffic with session state 8 months ago
  
  Where possible, creating Web applications — including Ajax-based applications — in a RESTful way avoids a large class of bugs. However, a pitfall of REST is sending duplicate data across similar XMLHttpRequests. This tip shows how the moderate use of session cookies can maintain just enough server-side state to significantly reduce client-server traffic, while still allowing fallback to cookie-free operation.
• Facebook Defines the Web-Based OS 8 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Could Facebook become the next Microsoft? TechCrunch recently examined this and has their thoughts on the matter. Personally, I see Facebook as redefining the OS rather than simply mirroring successes of failures had by Microsoft. Placing them into the same category as Microsoft may actually prove counter-productive, as they are two completely different types of companies, despite any striking similarities.
• Mozilla, Microsoft drawing sabers over next JavaScript 8 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich and Microsoft's Chris Wilson are trading heated rhetoric over the proposed next version of ECMAScript, better known as JavaScript.
• I have lost my Wow 9 months ago
  
  "Last week, I mentioned that Mozilla is planning to give the Firefox browser a makeover. Alex Faaborg had mentioned that they plan to integrate the look of Firefox with Microsoft's Windows Vista and Apple's Mac OS X. The problem was Alex had failed to mention anything about the Linux operating system .... "
• Falt4 CMS massive speed up 10 months ago
  
  Falt4 CMS, an opensource content management system, published a new major release. The main goal of the new release is mostly about speeding things up. Thus it includes a new caching engine to deliver 'almost flatfiles'.
• Build 404 error page CGI handler brains 10 months, 1 week ago
  
  Bad URLs, every Web site's bane, generate the infamous 404 error. Make your 404s useful by customizing redirects based on your site's content. This article shows you how to create your own 404 error-message intelligent CGI handler to provide useful links and 404 error page redirects for the contents of your site.
• How To Set Up A Facebook RSS Feed Reader Application For Your Blog 10 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  This guide shows how you can build an RSS feed reader application for the social network Facebook that will display your blog's/web site's RSS feed on the profile pages of Facebook users (that have installed the RSS feed reader application). Each item of the RSS feed will have a Share button so that people can share the story with their friends, and the application will have an Invite link so that people can invite up to ten friends at once to also install this feed reader application. I will use PHP5 to build the RSS feed reader application. To parse the RSS feed and generate HTML from it, I will use Magpie RSS.
  
  http://www.howtoforge.com/rss_facebook_app_php
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