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Five lesser known Firefox add-ons for web developers

When it comes to making web pages, I can whip up a rounded div or add a splash of gradient for a nice fade effect successfully with little trouble, but like many, when trying to deduce out why some stupid DIV is misbehaving, I can waste an entire day spinning my wheels. Checking out the various blogs and forums are of course a great resource, but probably my most useful and productive help ...

Combine multiple feeds into one with FeedMingle

I normally use Yahoo! Pipes to combine multiple feeds into one, but that's like swatting a fly with a sledgehammer compared to FeedMingle. It's a single-use site that does nothing but combine feeds and spit out the results in RSS, Atom, JSON or HTML widget flavors. FeedMingle will autodetect feeds if you're lazy like me and just feel like putting in the main URL of a site. It doesn't matter ...

Douglas Crockford: The State of Ajax

It isn't every day that Douglas Crockford (the father of JSON and JSLint) pops up with a new tech talk. In this one he discusses the current state of Ajax development, why mashups are inherently insecure, why the standards process is broken, and how our best hope for a newer better platform may be mobile. Say what? Basically he proposes the idea that because the replacement rate on mobile phones ...

9 ways ColdFusion 8 will rule web development

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/9_ways_ColdFusion_8_will_rule_web_development'; Ben Forta and Adobe are getting into full swing with ColdFusion 8 Scorpio Pre-Release tour. Last night Ben gave us in Seattle a taste of things to come. Here is why it will kick the tar balls out of everything else on the market. Built in AJAX widgets. Create AJAX windows, auto complete forms, calendar ...