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Microsoft announced the release to the Web (RTW) Silverlight 1.0, a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering richer user experiences on the Web. In addition, Microsoft will work with Novell Inc. to deliver Silverlight support for Linux, called Moonlight, and based on the project started on mono-project.com.

SilverLight is an application to create rich internet applications that competes Flash/Flex. Microsoft can only hope to catch us with Flash Player penetration.

From PHP Classes blog: Everybody wants to squeeze as much performance of their Web applications as possible. Usually this requires skilled professionals to achieve. Fortunately, several performance evaluation tools are now available to make Web site performance tuning a much easier task.

This post discusses tools like YSlow and other techniques to tune your Web servers performance, as well the results of using such tools and techniques in a busy site like PHPClasses. Anyway, here is the post.

Here’s the main topic will be discussed:

– The browser side also matters

– YSlow 13 optimization rules

– Too much AJAX and external Javascript may kill your page performance

– Compacting Javascript files

– Minimization versus HTTP compression

– Lighttpd: a fast HTTP server worth your attention

– So, how does the PHPClasses site perform?

– A much faster site for premium subscribers

– Free premium subscription trials

– Your performance rules

The unforeseen war (if there is one!) between Flex/Flash lovers and Ajax lovers are still flaming up. Personally, I love both! Ajax and Flash. Another article had ccme up but this time is between Flash and Gaia.
7 reasons not to consider using Adobe Flex [and how Gaia compares]

However, code zen responded to that article here.

Yes that’s it. Nothing more to say. “Adobe AIR: 10 reasons to love it, 10 reasons to hate it. “