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Ever used Eclipse IDE before? Well if no, you better start using it. You say why?

Here is the reason, “Most Useful Top 50+ Eclipse Plug-ins “

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

The $10 Ruby book “Mr. Neighborly’s Humble Little Ruby Book” is now available for free. The book available for download at InfoQ.

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“.