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Adobe announces the free Colin Moock’s tutorials for AS3.0. The tutorial will only cover basics of AS3.0. The tutorials will be a one full day event which will cover all the basics. However, this tutorial will be available on 10 cities around the world (Yea not even one on middle-east!). Hop in and register here if you live there or if you’re in the right city at the right time! This is a life time opportunity!

Great news Flex fellas out there… Adobe has partnered with Total Training to offer us a free online training for Flex 2. It totals of 17 hours of free Flex training online.

YEEEHA! Time to check it out here!

So you think there is no memory leak in java? Garbage Collector? Well, everything has its weakness. There is an easy way programmers in java can have a memory leak.

Did you say something?! Don’t believe me?! I’m not making fun of you! Okay then check out this post…

Finally, the long-awaited PHP developing environment for PHP is out there! Eclipse PDT is now available for download from Eclipse website. It contains the standard features Eclipse always has. From code completion and syntax highlighting to phpDoc and debugging. Grab your free Eclipse PDT version 1.0 from here.

This article is from chapter 3 of the book “Beginning Ajax with PHP: From Novice to Professional”. It gives you a basic idea on how Ajax works for PHP developers.

For those out there learning php for the first time or want to learn it, this article might motivate you on learning php. Even though I honestly LOVE php, some of these points never crossed my mind before. I loved php that made me learn it, including mySQL, in just 1 week in 11th grade!

Anyway, here is an article listing out the 10 points on reasons to love php.

An interview (more likely a discussion) with Adobe’s technical evangelist, James Ward, talking about the upcoming Flex 3 product. The feature that took my attention is Persistent Framework Cache which can lower the size of the application ALOT because of available caches from previous visited Flex application. Another great feature Ward stated is the memory and performance profiler which allows the developer to know exactly the memory leak and performance bottleneck.

Flex 3 SDK will be available for free under MPL license. And one of their goals is to make Flex 3 SDK will be fully open source upon the release of Flex 3. Keep up the good work Adobe! Make us proud!

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Regardless of what sort of Content Management System or Web application framework you might use to develop your Web site, there are some basics you should cover. A sophisticated user interface and rich content is great to have, but before you get to that, you should provide the basic files that users anticipate finding and that tell both humans and machines what your site does.

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Music about Mac vs PC… this is superb!