Aptana, the creators of one of the best web development IDE’s on the planet, has been broadening its product offering. One of them is the Aptana Cloud, its answer to providing an elastic web application platform.
So what makes Aptana Cloud different? From the looks of it they are offering an very specific LAMP based architecture [...]

A great podcast interview by the folks at Ajaxian with some guys from 280 North, the creators of 280Slides.com. They discuss some details and motivations behind their new Cappuccino JavaScript framework and their new “Objective” version of JavaScript they call Objective-J. The guys at 280 North come from an Apple development background, so they took [...]

Google has created the Ajax Libraries API. Basically Google is calling it a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular open source JS libraries. These libraries include:

jQuery
prototype
script.aculo.us
MooTools
dojo

If you use the Google JS API, you can do stuff like:

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<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
<script>
// Load jQuery
google.load("jquery", "1");
 
// on page [...]

Earlier this month (5/14/08 @ 05:40 PST) Google announced the Google Maps API for Flash. One of the changes that you notice right off is the difference and smoothness in animation. Its great to finally have the ability to integrate this mapping application into a flash experience and have access to the geo API natively.

Resources
Announcement
http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2008/05/introducing-google-maps-api-for-flash.html
Documentation [...]

I have personally just cut over to Firefox 3 as my default browser. I was finally able to gather the core add-ons I needed to make the switch. Some of the add-ons are still in beta, but are at least compatible with Firefox 3 so most of he functionality is there.
Firebug (use the 1.1 beta) [...]