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Great news. Version 0.6.5 has just been released. As you may already know, it has 4 new "major" features:

Adobe has released a free e-book entitled: The Adobe Flash Platform ActionScript Reference for Rich Internet Application Development. This ActionScript reference for rich Internet application development provides an alphabetical reference for all native ActionScript APIs for the Adobe Flash platform runtimes...

Google has been on fire lately, releasing new features almost daily. The latest is a new Gmail Labs option which lets you add your location to the signature.

Helium has been released - Another free Wordpress Template from JungleJar.com. This template was once being sold, but I decided to give it away freely at JJ.

Authority Blackbook released by Jack Humphrey was directly responcible for pushing me into blogging for profit. In fact I have actually used it as a blueprint for building my first WordPress blog to some extent.

Apache Solr is an open source, primarily HTTP-based, search server based on Apache Lucene. In 2007, I introduced Solr to developerWorks readers in the two-part Search smarter with Apache Solr series. With the recent release of Solr 1.3, the time is right to follow up with details about many of the new features and enhancements made since then.

The Guardian website launched earlier today its new online suite of services called "Open Platform", which will allow web developers to build application using content from the newspaper. The Guardian content APIs being released includes not only articles but also videos, galleries and other content..........

The Javascript Bubbling Library (YUI-CMS) is a set of plugins, behaviors and widgets, for building event-driven web applications using the bubble-up technique. The Bubbling Library also includes several plugins that can be used to extend the Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library to manage dynamic areas which are closely related with the event-driven philosophy. All components in the Bubbling Library have been released as open source under a BSD license and are free for all uses.

After months of work, the new Delicious is almost ready to come out of the oven. When we release it, you'll be automatically logged out of your account and will have to log in again, due to some changes we're making behind the scenes. That means now is a good time to make sure you know your username and password. Your username is what you see in the address bar when you visit your bookmarks (http://del.icio.us/your_username, soon to become http://delicious.com/your_username). And what's your password? If you don't remember, you can use our password reset tool to get a reset link delivered to the email address associated with your account.

eBizMBA has released a list of the top 30 blogs as of August 2008 ranked by measures of inbound links (Yahoo Site Explore) Alexa Rank and unique monthly visitors from U.S. (based on Compete and Quantcast data).

I have revisited adding Yui compressor into my work's ant build script to minify JS and CSS scripts. The current jar was yuicompressor-2.3.5.jar . It took a lot of playing around but I finally stumbled on how to get it to work. Here is the snippet for the yuicompressor. I had to jump through a couple hoops like overriding the current js/css scripts with the optimized js/css scripts. I'll release a full working copy in a zip, you can run against your webroot. We achieved an average 18% compression rate for all our js/css files.

Google may be releasing BigTable, its internal database system, as a web service to compete with Amazon SimpleDB, according to a source with knowledge of the launch. There are also rumors that press is being pre-briefed on the product, although we haven't been contacted by Google.

Recommended reading for anyone interested in tagging, semantic tagging or the semantic web.

Referred from http://faviki.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/we-got-interviewed-by-semanticweb-com/

@ Diigo Let's make best use of the Faviki Save/Edit API.

The bookmarklet for Faviki is compelling.

More and more semiconductor providers have released new microcontrollers with ARM CORTEX-M3/M0 cores. It is time to review the new product lines and check out their advantages over most successful ARM7TDMI microcontroller.

We've released another free and high quality Wordpress Template for all of you guys to download and hopefully enjoy. All of the features from our previous Wordpress Themes are in this one of course, and I've also included an extra here and there.

Internet browsing was always easily accessible with our default browser in windows operating systems. Internet explorer is the name which most of us would always remember. Internet explorer was first released with Windows 95 in 1995.