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20 + Sets of Free Royalty Free Icons for you to use and port for different projects.

This tutorial is another version of my News Ticker with Mootools I published yesterday. I want to reply to all that wrote me asking for information about how to implement a news ticker with horizontal scroller. Don't panic, it's very simple to implement and reuse in your projects.

A great accordion based off YUI framework and supports nested accordions. Trust me, its pretty nice, you gotta check it out. Full feature set and cross browser compatibility.

That’s obvious: Buttons are a very important part of a website: They’re the most common way your visitors can trigger an action and interact with your website. Sadly, even theses days many web pages still displays ugly buttons. Here’s our “Top Ten” CSS buttons tutorial list, for giving your buttons, submits and links the beauty they deserve.

This blog describes how to test Wicket applications using Fitnesse. It is about stretching the limits of the Wicket test components to do so. We will try to explain this by using a small example project we have created to illustrate things. This example project has been inspired on the new user wizard example by Eelco Hillenius. We adapted this example so that it uses Spring, because most apps use a backend system.

I've been working with ExtJS lately, and I must say I am highly impressed. For those of you not familiar with ExtJS (Ext), Ext is a crossbrowser javascript framework that allows for the creation of RIA (Rich Internet Applications).

Curl is another player in the RIA (Rich Internet Applications) space, going up against Microsoft Silverlight, Adobe's Flex platform, and OpenLazlo, among others. The Curl platform provides developers a way to build web-based apps that can't be easily built using Ajax or other web-based technologies. Those apps can be deployed both within the web browser or on the desktop via Curl Nitro, an extension of the Curl platform. To show off what Nitro can do, the company has recently released a demo app featuring a visual representation of the Facebook social graph.

This animated JavaScript tooltip script is very easy to use and lightweight at only 2kb.

The idea of CSS sprites is pretty genius. For those of you who don’t know the idea of a sprite, a sprite is basically multiple graphics compiled into one image. There are many advantages to using CSS sprites.

Photoshop Lady has featured Top 50 Photoshop Tutorials Around the World. You can add your selected tutorials into your favourite for future use.

The travel giant has added RSS feeds within their version control tool! Cool!

A JavaScript Bounce Effect.

A beginner JSF tutorial that attempts to teach basics of JavaServer Faces with HelloWorld example. This tutorial also explains the JSF lifecycle and page navigation.

Basically, from developer perspective, both technologies offer different paradigms. AIR is helping web developers to make desktop applications using ActionScript etc. While Silverlight is better for desktop app developers to move towards RIAs using XAML + code behind approach - the .Net 3.0 way. Web designers and developers will probably prefer AIR because of familiar development environment.

After many months of editing and fine-tuning, Manning finally published Laszlo in Action, the first comprehensive guide towards OpenLaszlo besides the reference documentation.

Wix is an online application for creating and publishing free flash websites and embeddable flash objects with audio, video, images and text. A Wix can be published anywhere on the Web, including as a standalone Website, in a Blog, as MySpace comments, extensions to MySpace layouts or on other Social Network profiles. With Wix, non-programmers can push the envelope of their self expression.

A new version of InputDraw has been released. This is a forms-integrating drawing widget. It now has a Javascript API so you can interact (delete, add content, hook javascript fucntions to receive events, etc..) with it. Developers can go wild and create many new types of cool apps. Also, you can customize the look of it. It's free to use.

Random ramblings about Unit Testing GUI libraries, Darwin, the Earth and Global Warming.