Web development in Linux is sometimes a little difficult since it lacks native support for Adobe’s Creative Suite.  I do have Macromedia’s MX suite installed from 2004 since it works fine with Wine/Linux.  I like Bluefish which works on Windows and Linux but it lacks a good FTP client.   This morning I just found Komodo which has a nice visual editor interface because you do your code editing in the top frame and can preview the output in the bottom frame (and update it instantly by pressing cntrl +s).

Adobe announced the upcoming release of CS5 with the ability to preorder it today.  Look for downloadable trials in the next thirty days.  Besides the killer new PhotoShop features Dreamweaver now has WordPress integration.  See the full video of the announcement.

Source: http://sixrevisions.com/infographs/firefox-statistics/

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Here is a great list of essential web development tools.

• Why does my Feedburner subscriber count fluctuate so much?
• Are people unsubscribing and subscribing as much as my Feedburner counter says?
• I notice your Feedburner counter goes up and down each day – why?
• My RSS Subscriber Counter Goes Down Every Weekend – Why?

For the answer read this post.

If you design websites, Mockingbird is a website which allows you to quickly create and share very nice looking wireframes.

A new version of WordPress was released and here is a video highlighting the new features.

If I am brain storming a website design I use this image to get me started.  I print it out and sketch out what I envision the page to look like.  If you want to download it you can do so here.  It is a fun way to get the juices flowing as there is something about a blank browser window that inspires you to fill it up as opposed to a blank piece of paper.

If you have a WordPress site you should definitely check this feature out if you are on WordPress.com or the plugin if you are hosting the site yourself.

Hint of what the <i>tag does</i>.

Need a web designer for a website?  I just found haystack.com which lets you see examples of work from companies and freelance designers as well as how much their projects cost to develop.  You can also find web designers in your area.  For example check out web designers in San Francisco.

Source: http://sixrevisions.com/web-development/the-history-of-web-browsers/

Facebook recently purchased FriendFeed and as a result released Tornado, a real-time web framework which powered FriendFeed.  They decided to release the code as an open source project which I was happy about as you can see in the post above.  Upon sending the link to Scott he thought he was quite the funny man with his little note on a demo page. 

When Ajax techniques became popular, developers faced a new problem: how can we debug Ajax requests and responses efficiently for complex web applications? If using a debugger was hard enough with the RESTful model, triggering an Ajax-specific request is a pain and a bit more difficult; dumping logs and information pertaining to those Ajax operations had to be done using JSON or XML.

FirePHP is an add-on for an add-on: it extends the popular in-browser web development tool called Firebug with an API for PHP web application developers. FirePHP is free and easily attainable via the Mozilla Add-Ons section on the official Mozilla site. The official FirePHP site can be found via this web address: www.firephp.org. Christoph Dorn is the person responsible for creating FirePHP.

Ever wanted to match the look of your HTML forms with the rest of your website?  This article demonstrates how to apply customized backgrounds to HTML forms, while preserving structurally clean markup and accessibility.

Click here to download the free PDF provided by Smashing Magazine.

I’m slow to report this but a new version of WordPress was released yesterday (version 2.8).  With its new one click upgrade feature it doesn’t get much easier for those hosting their own sites to upgrade.

I started taking detailed notes at WordCamp San Francisco until I saw Kara’s tweets that she was taking notes on Google Docs.  In case you missed some points or you didn’t take notes at all so you could enjoy the speakers, here are the notes.

If you want to look at speeding up your website check out this site which runs a speed test and shows you where you can make improvements.  I was able to shave 5 seconds off my initial test (for first and repeat views of the homepage) after doing some tweaks.  My page is still heavy but loading much faster.