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Mashing-up is one of the hot techniques on web development lately. More and more websites are publishing APIs to use their contents. Amazon has enormous amount of APIs available for web developers.

Switch On The Code posted an article/tutorial on “How to use Flex to get Music Info from Amazon Web Services” by using Flex 3.0.

A new article in Yahoo development network about how to speed up your website. The article “Thirteen Simple Rules for Speeding Up Your Web Site” shows how to enhance the performance of your website using the followings:
1. Make Fewer HTTP Requests
2. Use a Content Delivery Network
3. Add an Expires Header
4. Gzip Components
5. Put CSS at the Top
6. Move Scripts to the Bottom
7. Avoid CSS Expressions
8. Make JavaScript and CSS External
9. Reduce DNS Lookups
10. Minify JavaScript
11. Avoid Redirects
12. Remove Duplicate Scripts
13. Configure ETags

Ready made APIs for Flash/Flex developers. The list contains 22 AS3 APIs that should save Flash and Flex developers a ton of time. More..

PHP frameworks are the latest hot topic in the PHP community, and new frameworks are being released daily. With over 40 frameworks available it’s difficult to decide which framework works best for you, especially as each framework offers different functionality. To get you started, take a look at the article “Taking a look at ten different PHP frameworks“.

“10 Designer’s Checkpoints To Be Aware Of” is hell of a great article posted in Smashing Magazine for web developers. It is about tools designers should be aware of. It is about analysing and automatic checks for websites.

Ever since SilverLight was announced by Microsoft, the Flash community was in Defcon-1 alert. The exciting new technologies that SilverLight has to offer to web developers announced the new era of Adobe-Microsoft competition. Shawn Wildermuth brought us a new great article which titled “10 Things You Should Know About Microsoft’s Silverlight“. Microsoft is on the move to conquer and dominate the world Rich Internet Application. So don’t miss out what it is going will offer.

Golgotha from Search-This asked 3 Flash master 5 question which are: “What do you see as Flash’s key asset(s)?”, “What do you think is Flash’s biggest weakness?”, “If you could change one thing about Flash what would it be?”, “Has Flash’s popularity peaked?” and “What will Flash look like in 3 years?”.

Firebug a great tool I discovered today! It is one of the best tool I have ever seen for web developers. After playing with it, I realized that this tool really deserves a platinum medal.

Firebug is an extension for the popular FireFox browser. It is used for testing web pages and easily trace the whole HTML, CSS, and Javascript connectivity or whatever it is called. It provides error checking, debugging, and even console command line.

J.D.Campbell posted three great articles about AJAX and PHP on phpBuilder. Part 1 talk about general overview about Ajax and DHTML and he gives an example to get more familiar with AJAX. Part 2 goes deeper to show how to access XML document using PHP and reading the data before processing it to javascript. However in part 3, it gets even more interesting when he uses POST method to read data rather than previously show, GET method.

Here are the links:
AJAX and PHP Part 1 – Dynamic HTML and Images
AJAX and PHP Part 2: XML Communication/Processing
AJAX and PHP Part 3 – Post vs. Get Requests

Enjoy…

The hype around web 2.0 social website has been since the start focusing around social networks such the giant Facebook.
A great new tutorial on Makebeta blog has been posted which will teach you how to use some of Facebook’s API to mash it up with your PHP enabled website. Here is what you going to learn from the tutorial:

Installing The Facebook Developer Application
Downloading The Facebook PHP Client Library
Creating Your Application
Hello Facebook! Example
FBML – Facebook Markup Language
Using the Facebook API

To read the tutorial click here.