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The web is abuzz with some news from the Internet Explorer team at Microsoft - IE8 is expected to take some big steps towards catching up with the web.

Last night, I had the pleasure to attend a presentation put on by Dave Shea and Derek Featherstone. This was a great opportunity, as both are notable figures in the web industry. There was a goodly turnout at the event, as it had been publicized on the Better Web Posse site.
Dave started the [...]

Mozilla Labs seems to keep busy with interesting software projects. They have recently taken the covers off their latest release, Prism.

Dustin Diaz is a well-known JavaScripter working at Google. Last night, he gave a JavaScript presentation here in Victoria.

This is somewhat related to my recent post on using Apache and IIS on the same machine at the same time. It is also something that I tend to have to search for whenever I set up a new PC (or rebuild one). So here it is, for posterity.
This is actually about Apache [...]

A tip on how to run Apache and IIS on the same machine for development work.

There is an upcoming Flex presentation being done by a fellow web developer, happening right here in Victoria in just two weeks.

Some somewhat worrisome news lately: Mozilla may be looking to offload the Thunderbird project.

Having recently adopted Thunderbird as my preferred email client, I found out it can do something else besides email: it can interface with Google Calendar.

I had read about Mozilla’s Thunderbird email client before in the news, but never paid much attention to it. I recently decided to give it a try, and had some good first impressions.