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Max Kiesler as posted in his site an article with 60 more AJAX tutorials. These examples and how-to’s represent the best tutorials that I’ve personally used or otherwise had the opportunity to work with out of the overall group. This post is intended for individuals who learn best by example. Most of the listed tutorials come complete with instructions and source code. Read the 60 More AJAX Tutorials full article.…

When you’re a web developer, you always keep running into annoying Internet Explorer bugs, so you need to hack your way around. Now with the IE7 out, a lot of the old CSS hacks don’t work anymore, and those that do still work, can’t be relied on to work in the future. IE has a feature, called conditional comments, which could help us. As a hack it’s quite useful. IE 7 will support this too, and it even allows you to detect different versions of IE.…

The Java EE 5 specification (JSR 244) has passed its final approval ballot unanimously. This means the specifications under it - JSF 1.2, JSP 2.1, EJB 3.0, JAX-WS, and other specifications - are all set to go, even if the implementations aren’t ready for prime time. This clears the way for implementations to solidify compliance, and also providing a stable target for programmers to use in development.…

Max Kiesler has posted on his site, a listing of 50 different Ajax toolkits and frameworks, and a listing of 30 different AJAX Tutorials. Round-up of 50 AJAX Toolkits and Frameworks Round-up of 30 AJAX Tutorials Of course, the lists are by no means complete, but they do include not only the “big names” but also several of the smaller, lighter libraries the web has to offer.…

Dion Hinchcliffe from http://web2.wsj2.com/ has written a great Enterprise Web 2.0 software list article. It has an extensive list of many enterprise-ready Web 2.0 software applications.…

If creating standards-compliant, cross-browser compatible page layouts using CSS has you stumped, let A List Apart and SitePoint’s CSS gurus show you that way. In this comprehensive, step-by-step tute, Matthew Levine from A List Apart and Rachel and Dan from SitePoint show you how to create a slick, flexible, and solid 2/3-column layout that will stand the tests of time and evolving technology! In Search of the Holy Grail (3 Column CSS Layout) by Matthew Levine in A List Apart.…

You know how to open and use database connections for each user, but what about optimizing for many concurrent users? Rather than creating and destroying connections over and over again, established practice calls for use of a pool of connections that can be reused. Kunal Jaggi shows how to implement this strategy in Tomcat and how to stress test the app with JMeter, an open source tool for load testing with a drag-and-drop-style GUI.…

For those who wanted a XLS emitter for a long time, finally here may be a chance to taste. Thanks the Apache POI project and the new layout engine of BIRT 2.0, we can now easily create a XLS emitter though it looks obviously not that fancy yet. You can see the full article here.…

Strecks, a set of open source extensions to the Struts framework aimed at Java 5 users, has been released. Strecks (which stands for “Struts Extensions”) is built on the existing Struts 1.2.x code base. Read Phil Zoio’s article on Strecks, titled Building on Struts for Java 5 Users. Strecks contains a range of features aimed to streamline the Struts programming model. Some key features include: POJO action beans with no framework dependencies action vs.…

The first official release of the ASP.NET Atlas Toolkit is ready! For controls and templates that make adding client-side functionality to your site incredibly easy see Atlas Control Toolkit.…