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With over 3 million users worldwide, Adobe’s Dreamweaver is the most popular web development software in the world, and it just took another step forward with CS3, the new version released in 2007. Having come a long way from its humble beginnings as a simple web design tool, CS3 allows you to rapidly put together standards compliant web sites and dynamic web sites with server-side languages and Ajax, and much more. To complement this great new application, David Powers has written the ultimate guide to itThe Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 teaches you everything you need to know about the application, from setting up your development environment environment to publishing your sites and applications on the web, and everything in between.

• Takes you through your development environment set up
• Covers everything you need to create both standards compliant web sutes, and dynamic web applications
• Teaches several real world techniques using a series of step by step tutorials

What youll learn

• How to set up your ideal development environment, using Mac OSX/Windows, Apache (and IIS on Windows,) Apache, MySQL, and phpMyAdmin
• Creating standards compliant web sites using CS3’s XHTML and CSS features
• Creating dynamic web applications using CS3’s PHP and Spry Ajax server behaviors
• Building several real world web site functions, such as form validation, random quote generator, search function,
• user management/login pages, dynamic Ajax gallery, and much more.
• Creating an interface design in Fireworks CS3 and importing it into Dreamweaver CS3.
• How use Dreamweaver CS3’s XML functionality, to consume RSS feeds, and create Spry data sets
• Using includes, templates and master detail pages.
• How to publish your site after you’ve created it

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Microsoft has reversed its decision to make IE8 behave like IE7 unless specifically requested.

Wow. And even more surprising is their reason for making the change. In Microsoft’s Interoperability Principles and IE8 on the IEBlog, IE General Manager Dean Hachamovitch says:

In light of the Interoperability Principles, as well as feedback from the community, we’re choosing differently. Now, IE8 will show pages requesting “Standards” mode in IE8’s Standards mode. Developers who want their pages shown using IE8’s “IE7 Standards mode” will need to request that explicitly (using the http header/meta tag approach described here).

And in a press release titled Microsoft Expands Support for Web Standards, Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie states that

there is a concrete benefit to Web designers if all vendors give priority to interoperability around commonly accepted standards as they evolve

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CSSVista is a free Windows application for web developers which lets you edit your CSS code live in both Internet Explorer and Firefox simultaneously. This is a free promotion application and according the creators: “If you like this, you may be interested in our browser compatibility service, Litmus. Yes, that’s why this software is free!”

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Today I’ve read 2 posts at TWM’s blog and Me, Myself and Delphi, that Delphi is listed in the 12 languages that never took off.
Delphi for sure is not a dead language. Coldfusion (also listed) isn’t dead neither. MySpace, for example, is written in ColdFusion.

I don’t care about the inaccuracy of post. I care about Digg and a shadow that became reality? The post is listed at Digg titled “Ghosts in the Machine: 12 Coding Languages That Never Took Off“. Taking a look at the digg story, there was about 166 comments and the majority of them was negative on the post, but the story had 641 diggs! This is insane. Checking out who blogged about that there was ONLY some robot-like or trash sites who blogged it!

It is difficult for my simple mind, to understand how a negative commented story has so many diggs. Digg does not count the buries? Of course not! I regretted my previous Digg usage. From now on it’s official blacklisted, unless they improve the service!

PS: I’ll digg this post. I’m curious to find out how a post titled “Digg Sucks” will perform!