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Shayne Tilley is the Marketing Manager for SitePoint and was nice enough to do an interview for JungleJar. We discuss his new book scheduled for release in May of this year, current web browser releases, Twitter, and of course SitePoint.

At the start of this year, I sat down to write the "Errors and Debugging" chapter of Simply JavaScript. I cracked my fingers, dove into the landscape of JavaScript debugging tools, and emerged very disappointed several hours later. At the time, Firefox was the only browser with a JavaScript debugging tool worth writing about: Firebug. Less than a year later, the landscape has changed dramatically. Every major browser has introduced new development tools that make it easier to diagnose problems with your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code right inside the browser in question. But can any of these tools stack up against the slick and effortlessly powerful tools provided by Firebug? Let's take a look.

For a lot of people, the term "Web 2.0," ceased to mean anything real a long a time ago. For some, it never really meant anything to begin with it. As someone who writes about the so-called second version of the web for a living, I think I've held onto the Web 2.0 term as long as I could. But today, "Web 2.0″ has officially jumped the shark for me. That doesn't mean I'll stop using it - as a blanket term to describe the industry that I write about it can be helpful - but I have to admit that it has now become somewhat of a parody.

I'm sure you've seen them many times -- those wild squiggles that need to be deciphered and typed into a text box before you can buy concert tickets online or access a comment form.