If you're like me, you probably hate IE6. 80% of my CSS debugging is spent on IE6, as well as 70% of my JS debugging. It's an incredible waste of time. So why not try to encourage our visitors to move away from that piece of crap? It's quite easy, you'll see. All it requires is a bit of HTML.

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Web development is a delicate and complex discipline, and requires an in-depth knowledge of the many architectures that exist today. The basics of these architectures — DOM Core, HTML, CSS and Events — are contained into the W3C DOM specifications. The DOM, which stands for Document Object Model, is the most essential concept in web design and development: it's the model that describes how all elements in a HTML page (like input fields, images, paragraphs, etc.) are related to the topmost structure — the document itself.

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DevKick is another directory where you can find carefully hand-picked components and resources. Focusing web developers and designers, DevKick provides a well-organized space with a clean interface, where you can browse components, play with demos, read the latest news from the blog and experience the latest web development experiments in the lab section.

Allthrough DevKick is quite new (at least, in its current instantiation) and is a bit limited at the moment (about 70 scripts and components are listed), it has a great potential to grow fast and become a good and solid reference, like WebAppers or Smashing (which is more generalist, but offers great content for developpers, too).

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So you've decided to become a programmer. That's a great decision, but let us ask you a little question: do you know where to start? There are — as usual — thousands of place on the web where you'll find hermetic references, cryptic cheat sheets or endless keywords lists. Maybe reading this article should be a good starting point.

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Are you into AJAX? What a silly question, of course you are! Who isn't, those days? AJAX is everywhere, and it fuels the so-called "web 2.0". So even if you're not into it, you have to deal with it. That's the story.

Now the wonderful thing about AJAX is that, since everybody does it, there are tons and tons of scripts, modules, libraries, snippets and frameworks available. And the place to start looking for those is certainly AjaxRain.

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When you think of javascript frameworks, you think Prototype, Mootools, JQuery or YUI. But hopefully, the web 2.0 world is moving and changing fast, and new players show up everyday. So now, when thinking javascript framework, you'll have to think Ext JS as well.

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Google launches a new activity called Google App Engine that actually works as an application cloud service. It provides the environment, the infrastructure and the storage needed to develop and deploy new applications. In other words, it's designed to completely house your project, and to integrate easily with Google services. It's been opened up to the first 10,000 developers that request an account — free of charge. And, in the pure Google-style, it's expected to remain free — at least to some extent.

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There are a multitude of date-picker scripts available on the internet but, with only a few exceptions, they all require either the use of a nasty pop-up window or the inclusion of an embedded JavaScript block within the HTML. That's no good practice.

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When you start a new business with a consumer focus, you more than often found that the available budget for software is minimal. With this in mind, when the guys behind Jitsu (who like free and open-source technologies like Apache, Linux, MySql) couldn’t find any open source Ajax frameworks that supported compiled XML and data binding, they decided to build their own, and they released their work under an open source license for the good of the community.

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If you're a purist, you're most probably coding everything by hand. HTML, templates, CSS, javascript... Everything. But wheter you rely on your own libraries or on existing frameworks or templates, there always comes a time when you'll be doing things that eat your time.

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Whether you’ve forgotten the name of a function or the property of a cascading style sheet, these quick reference maps deliver the information you are looking for - immediately. Most of those are provided as .pdf or .png-files, so you can print them and use them every day for whatever projects you’re currently working on.

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Smart Lists is light-weight (8KB) javascript applet, created by Benjamin Keen, that lets you convert "flat" HTML lists of information into categorized, paginated lists. In essence, it's a presentation layer for improving the readability of related information, without requiring a database or server-side script.

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When it comes to dropdown menus, there are a lot of different coding techniques. Some rely on pure javascript, most on a mixed javascript+CSS approach. To our knowledge, very few utilize the pure CSS methodology, which primarely consist of leveraging original CSS attributes of standard HTML elements.

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Lets face it, forms are boring, validation is a pain. It’s time to inject some life into them, make them fun again!

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Prototype is one of the coolest javascript frameworks available to developers. And since it's been massively adopted by the community, multiple plugins and snippets were created by enthusiast contributors.

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