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i would like to recommend 4 applications that every bloggers should install. They are Firefox, Windows Live Writer Portable, Paint.NET, and Feedreader.

The Save the Developers campaign objective is to save web developers from stress and frustration caused by non-standard compliant browsers, like Internet Explorer 6.

Adobe AIR, currently in beta stage, is a new software from Adobe that lets developers using HTML, Ajax, Flash and Flex build and deploy rich internet application on their own desktop. Although AIR finalization is in progress, there are many applications out there built on top of it, showing all the cool capabilities of the software. I will list some of the ones available for the public.

Free Tutorials, tips and tricks for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 2000 and 2003, Linux and Unix, Unbuntu and much more.

Changes that Firefox 3.0 will have on web developers. The author hits on Javascript changes because of the new DOM engine, CSS changes and more.

Apart from the darn good web browser that it is, Firefox is also a web designer’s best friend. You can do almost all of your web page testing within Firefox and use it as a tool along with your graphic and code editors to help you design better and faster.

If you've worked with Flex for more than 5 minutes, you've undoubtedly seen the Adobe-provided Flex 3 Style Explorer and Flex 3 Component Explorer. You may have even seen some similar Explorer-style applications developed by the community such as the Flex 2 Primitive Explorer by Jason Hawryluk at Flexible Experiments.

Progress always comes at a cost. In the case of web browsers, users bear the cost when developers take the rendering of certain authoring tools and browsers (especially Internet Explorer) as gospel. When a new version of that browser comes along and fixes bugs or misinterpretations of the spec (or introduces new ones) or in any way changes behavior, sites break and our clients, bosses, and users get very unhappy.

An excellent website takes a particularly savvy blend of both great design and great code. Because of this, you often find designers having to figure out code and developers trying their hand at design. Speaking as a developer who spent his university years studying among other developers, I can safely say that programmers are not designers. Thankfully, we were graded back then for having reusable code and proper OO methodology -- never for our aesthetics. But nowadays, one of the greatest assets a developer can have is a keen understanding of design.