I am a big fan of YQL, a terribly easy and fuss-free way to access APIs and mix data retrieved from them in a simple, SQL style language. Say for example you want photos of Paris,France from Flickr that are licensed with Creative Commons attribution, you can do this with a single command:
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select * [...]

Andrée Hansson has created 960 Gridder, a grid layout tool for web developers that you can either use as an integrated component to layout your websites or use it as a bookmarklet. The grid is fully customizable but it defaults to the “960px grid standard”.

960 Gridder will automatically identify if jQuery is present at the [...]

David Semeria has been working on LM, another Ajax framework, for a number of years and has just announced it.
The first demo app is a highly customizable Twitter client, Twiggler, that runs in the browser.

Unfortunately nothing is public on the framework so we can’t see how it actually works. It looks kinda like Squeak or [...]

Matt Raible has posted on the analysis the he has done for a client on choosing an Ajax framework. This is the age old question “which Ajax framework should I use?” It is agonizing. It is hard. It isn’t pretty. We created a dartboard:

Matts take compares Dojo, Ext JS, GWT, and YUI using various criteria [...]

Mark Pilgrim has nicely discussed the new HTML 5 datagrid element on his latest This Week in HTML 5:

In the datagrid data model, data is structured as a set of rows representing a tree, each row being split into a number of columns. The columns are always present in the data model, although individual columns [...]

You may have already seen Opera’s celebratory home page marking their fifteenth anniversary:

But did you also notice the comic depicting their founders’ story?

Happy Birthday, Opera.

Alexis Deveria of “When Can I Use…” fame recently told us about his latest project:

A jQuery plug-in to provide support for the CSS Template Layout Module. For those of you unfamiliar with this specification, it provides a relatively easy way to make a table-like layout using CSS. Until recently it was known as the “CSS [...]

Andrea Giammarchi has a vision to have the best of all browsers available to him in JavaScript land. He has created vice versa as a project to explore this ideal and incredibly hard vision to attain:

Studying the DOM, which is notoriously a mess, I often “travel” between the MDC and the MSDN to solve a [...]

Sean Martell is my hero. He did the Bespin logos and a bunch of the Mozilla works in general. When Ben and I were in Toronto we got to see him at work at his WACOM tablet, and it is a sight to behold.
I wish I could do that kind of design work, but for [...]

Last month I blogged about a free end-to-end ASP.NET MVC tutorial called “NerdDinner” that I wrote for the Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 book from Wrox Press.  The book is now released and shipping on Amazon.