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Easily test Web services with soapUI

The soapUI tool makes it much easier to test Web services during development. It's also useful for interacting with third-party Web services to get a better idea of what to expect (and what to include) in the response. Read more »

Using Google as an application platform

Find out why Google Apps is a powerful alternative to more established products such as Microsoft SharePoint and IBM Lotus Notes. And, if Google Apps doesn't offer the applications you need, see why the Google App Engine might fit the bill. Read more »

Photos: New features in Firefox 3

Firefox 3 aimed for 5 million downloads in the first 24 hours of its release, and smashed all expectations achieving more than 8 million downloads worldwide. This photo gallery takes you inside the new features this recording breaking browser. Read more »

Seven essential elements of Web application design

At this year's Web Directions South UX conference in Melbourne, Robert Hoekman Jr, the author of Designing the Obvious and Designing the Moment gave a presentation titled -- " The essential elements of Web application design". During the presentation, Hoekman explained seven key design principles that should be implemented when designing Web applications. Read more »

Silverlight 2.0 offers paradigm shift from predecessor

A quick overview of what you'll find in the latest version of Silverlight. Read more »

Location-based publishing and services

Geocoded content is transforming our Web. By adding geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude) to our media, we can help others find it through location-based search engines and web maps. Read more »

Customise your Web browsing experience with Greasemonkey

Discover how you can use Greasemonkey to extend and customise the Web browsing experience. Read more »

Automate and extend Firefox with the Chickenfoot add-on

Chickenfoot is a Firefox add-on that allows you to automate user actions within the browser environment. It also lets you extend the browser interface to provide additional features to a Web page. Read more »

A closer look at Firefox 3 developer features

We take a closer look at some of the Firefox 3 developer features. Read more »

Adobe AIR brings the Web to the desktop

The Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) lets developers build Web applications with a rich user interface that mimics desktop applications. Read more »

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  • Staff Facebook's portal for the masses

    This week, Facebook took a number of strategic steps toward its goal of giving people the "power to share and make the world more open and connected." That's how founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg described the mission statement for Facebook. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Brendon Chase Do you trust data in the cloud?

    Cheap hosted storage, app engines, and hosted code libraries. Can you really trust your data, or your client's data in the magical Web 2.0 cloud? Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Staff The future remains yesterday

    Remember when MySQL was blazingly fast and cared little for SQL standards? When MySQL regarded a view as something nice from your window and a trigger was treated as a weaponry component? Those days are set to return with a MySQL fork called Drizzle. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

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