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• 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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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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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!

This is the Ruby on Rails vs Java clip

and this is the Ruby on Rails vs PHP clip

Quite interesting I could say.

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When you install WAMP5, all the files are copied in the directory you choose. Conf files are then modified to point to that directory. It also installs a “www” directory which will be your Document Root. At the end of the installation, WAMP5 will automatically install Apache and MySQL as services.

WAMP5’s installation is compact. This means that all files are copied to WAMP5’s directory. Only the MySQL conf file (usually my.ini) is copied to the Windows directory but as “mywamp.ini” to avoid conflicts with other installs.

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This is great for developers who need to keep track of numerous sites (up to 100). Montastic checks your sites every 10 minutes and as soon as one or more sites go down, it will instantly send an email to you and up to five other people. Best of all, the service is completely free.

If you want something a bit more detailed, mon.itor.us offers more detailed stats and charts and allows you to monitor, amongst others, HTTP, FTP, Ping and POP. This service is also free

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Here are 3 brilliant examples of Bar Graphs made using CSS.

Basic CSS Bar Graph

Complex CSS Bar Graph

Vertical CSS Bar Graph

View the code of the examples @ Apples To Oranges >>>