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The open source and Microsoft developer communities became a little closer today, with the news that Visual Studio will include and support the jQuery JavaScript library.

Survey Mapping
Eric Meyer provides an initial glance at the results of the 2008 Web Developer Survey.
Intense Debate Goes Automattic
The WordPress team now has some new partners: the people from IntenseDebate. The result? A more sophisticated comment system in the next release of WP! More info from the ID blog.
A List Apart: Test-Driven Progressive Enhancement
Proposes a [...]

The Creative Suite 3 announcement was a big one, almost two years ago. Adobe have started the fuss all over again with the CS4 unveiling.

I recently discovered Justin Etheredge’s blog. He has recently posed an interesting question to the developer community, “What is your strategy for becoming a better developer?”. I like the responses that have been posted so far, so I will chip in with my own.
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I think learning is a never-ending process. Just as soon as you [...]

Victoria got a treat yesterday: the renowned aerial acrobatic team known as the Snowbirds put on a performance above the Dallas Road waterfront. It was quite the draw: plenty of people turned out for the event, which is part of celebrations for British Columbia’s 150th year. I took my camera with my 70-300mm lens, and [...]

Targeting the .NET runtime version 2.0 matters
NDepend - great tool - was just updated to use .NET 2.0, rather than 3.5 as required by the previous release.
CSS Typography: Contrast Techniques, Tutorials and Best Practices
Nice round-up.
WordPress 2.7 Navigation Options Survey
The WP team are soliciting user feedback for one of the changes planned in the next release [...]

35 Beautiful Examples Of Rain Photography
Some great rain/after rain photos.
WordPress 2.6.2
Very good. Always a good thing to be getting those updates.
10 Principles of the PHP Masters
Good list. Lots of linked pages to read.
Microsoft CSS Vendor Extensions
-moz-, -webkit-, and -o- are joined by -MS- in IE8 - finally.
Interactive Code Dependencies Graph
Patrick’s latest release of NDepend has [...]

First Look At WordPress 2.7
Not expected until November, but has some appealing updates in store.
10 Promising JavaScript Frameworks
Nice list…some up-and-comings I need to take a look at!
40 Creative Design Layouts: Getting Out Of The Box
Nice collection of creative webpage layouts.
Developer Tools in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2
IE has long lagged behind the other browsers (Firefox [...]

I recently decided to try out the latest openSUSE. This post contains some notes and screenshots chronicling my initial forays with the new release on the block.

The browser wars, as they were known, have been dormant for some time, since Netscape Navigator fell to ruin. Google has possibly just stoked the flames up again with a new toy: Chrome.