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Knowing what a proxy is is good. Knowing what you can do with one is even better.

I became a bit of a JavaScript fanboy while writing Simply JavaScript last year, so it was especially thrilling to get to sit down with Douglas Crockford—possibly the world’s biggest JavaScript fanboy—and geek out on our mutual love of JavaScript at Web Directions South 2008 a couple of weeks ago.

On this post Joe Stagner introduces his experiences with Aggiorno, Artinsoft's latest project which automates a lot of time consuming tasks for web developers in the form of web refactorings. From the post "[aggiorno] takes your web page and fixes errors, removes the use of deprecated constructs, restructures your syntax for XHTLM compliance and more."

At some point as a front-end developer I think we all have to draw a line for HTML validation. Strict validation is not a holy grail you need or can crusade for. It improves your code but has also it’s downside. For example target:_blank is no longer available, you need a javascript snippet to get around it. And when you get there, what’s the point? Your template no longer really validate. The target attribute doesn’t validate because you can’t choose for the user to open a link in another window, but you decided to do it anyway!!!

13 members of the TC in Norway has left their Standards Body in protest. They say that the Standards Body has lost its credibility in the IT area. Remember that Standards Norway was voting Yes with the support of only 2 companies (Microsoft and Statoil), and against the will of the rest of the technical committee.

In response to another blog post -- an approach to exception handling: when exceptions (checked or unchecked) should be thrown, caught, logged, wrapped, swallowed, or allowed to pass through. These aren't really hard & fast rules, but more the approach I take to these questions.

The guys over at Artinsoft just released a refresh to their aggiorno web assistant tool, from their website "aggiorno represents a new generation of tools for software developers that uses advanced transformational technologies, for turning any existing website into a valid, findable, accessible standards compliant one"... it really is a great tool and totally worth it to check it out.

Now that the EJB 3.1 Public Draft is available, here's a list of its main ease-of-use improvements and features, along with their corresponding sections in the spec. This should make it easier to quickly find some of the most relevant material.

Corporate rivals have temporarily sunk their differences to find ways to fine-tune the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to a variety of popular dynamic languages.

Coding Standards

A small writeup about how to create CSS sprites for the ones struggling with figuring out why their top and left coordinates are malfunctioning, repetitions isn't working and so on. Pretty detailed and easy explained I feel, though then again I don't get to have an opinion I guess ... ;)