Cory Miller: The First 5 Essential Tweaks He Does in a WordPress Blog Installation.

Moltn: Six Tips On Writing Content For Search Engines. If that doesn’t work, use lots of dirty words

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FLVIX is a free online video converter. It converts video into formats like .AVI, .MOV, .3GP, .MP4, .MP4 for free, online.

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What’s YSlow?:

It’s an extension to Firebug (yes, correct, Firebug, not Firefox) that helps with performance optimization efforts. It scores your page on the scale A to F, based on compliance with Yahoo’s performance rules. It’s a tool that has been used internally at Yahoo and is now released to the world.

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Ajax, DTrace and Where They Meet

The article walks you through setting up dtrace on an an Ajax tracing example and then goes into detail on tracing Ajax and Java call flow where they are tracing the call flow of the JavaScript functions and the Java servlet methods, which responds to the Ajax calls using the script:

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The Discovery Channel is using Sharkrunners, an online game, to teach people what it’s like to be a marine biologist who is tracking sharks. The game play is easy to play, but original

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Feature: 5 Ways to Optimize AJAX in Ruby on Rails

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Squish allows to create tests for GUI and Web applications by recording or manually writing test scripts. Squish supports popular scripting languages for the test scripts and gives access to additional APIs. This way QA engineers can easily create powerful and robust tests to enhance and keep up the quality of the tested application.
Different editions of Squish are available for testing applications based on the following technologies: Qt®, Java™, Mac, Web, 4Js, Tk, XView

DatePicker using Prototype and ScriptaculousYou’ll find here the code and instructions for a datepicker widget using Prototype and Scriptaculous librairies.