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The YUI team has put out YUI 3.0:

We’re pleased to announce today the general-availability release of YUI 3.0.0. YUI 3’s core infrastructure (YUI, Node and Event) and its utility suite (including Animation, IO, Drag & Drop and more) are all considered production-ready with today’s release.

This is a ground-up redesign of YUI:

1. Selector-driven: YUI 3 is built around one of the lightest, fastest selector engines available, bringing the expressive power of the CSS selector specification into actions that target DOM nodes.
2. Syntactically terse: Without polluting the global namespace, YUI 3 supports a more terse coding style in which more can be accomplished with less code.
3. Self-completing: YUI 3’s light (6.2KB gzipped) seed file can serve as the starting point for any implementation. As long as this seed file is present on the page, you can load any module in the library on the fly. And all modules brought into the page via the built-in loader are done so via combo-handled, non-blocking HTTP requests. This makes loading the library safe, easy and fast.
4. Sandboxed: YUI modules are bound to YUI instances when you use() them; this protects you against changes that might happen later in the page’s lifecycle. (In other words, if someone blows away a module you’re using after you’ve created your YUI instance, your code won’t be affected.)

It's especially nice to see the new terse YUI namespacing, so you can just type YUI() instead of the older longer syntax.

The cool thing about YUI (and this release) is that it is literally driving the Yahoo! Home Page. That's pretty awesome of Yahoo! to release this code and make it generally available to the wider community. Congrats to the whole YUI team on the new release.

See the original announcement blog post on getting started with YUI 3.0 in 3 easy steps.

Normally, we cannot schedule everything we’re going to do & at the end of the day we end up asking: "where did my time go?".

LogMyTask is a web-based time tracking application which is totally focused to finding that out with no extras that makes it easier to adapt & use.

It can be used by only one user or collaboratively with a group of users & even different teams.

The usage of the application is very straightforward:

• admin user creates teams
• invites users to the teams by simply providing their e-mails
• users can start creating their tasks

The application works in almost real-time with very few refreshes. When a user adds/updates a task, the other users instantly see them.

With just a click, it is possible to see "what, when & how long every user worked on" in a calendar view. And, if needed, edit the past data.

Conclusion:

The application is so easy to use (like the Twitter for time tracking) & very functional for individuals to teams who want to get the most out of their time.

LogMyTask is currently in beta status & totally free to use. After the beta, there will still be a free plan offered.

P.S. This post is a sponsored review.

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Tags: Collaboration, Time

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The CSS Awards select the best websites developed with CSS from around the world. The awards are given to only the best desigerns, agencies and bloggers in the online community. The awards are selected daily under a strict system of valoration.

Websites are selected for the Site of the Day and Site of the Month by the international panel of judges. Winners of the awards receive cash prizes, technological equipment, and most importantly, the promotion, press releases and exposure of your website through their vast network of blogs, collaborators, directories and international forums related to web design and creativity.

Source: http://www.thecssawards.com/

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OneFileCMS is, just like it sounds, is a tiny content management system which is formed of one file (20.4kb).

It is a database-less PHP script that enables you to view/edit/delete/upload files & folders very quickly.

OneFileCMS is very ideal for anyone who updates their websites by editing the source of the files directly.

It is also a backend for anyone without the need of a FTP connection.

The application has a validated, semantic & commented markup. It is unobtrusive & can be re-branded with ease.

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Elias Klughammer has implemented the Juggernaut push server in a Cappuccino app.

Always nice to have an open source bare bones sample app for a marriage like this. Nothing beats looking at the source.

jQuery, being one of the most popular & powerful JavaScript frameworks around, is offering a slick experience to users at every level.

Its website is a huge resource of documentation, examples & tutorials for anyone who is into it.

Besides the documentation jQuery offers, following other jQuery users is a great way to learn more & get inspired to discover new ways for taking advantage of this library.

Here are 15+ blogs to follow for jQuery fans that frequently create jQuery-oriented content:

John Resig

Besides being the creator of jQuery, he has other creative JavaScript-related projects like:

• Processing.js
• Sizzle.js
• FireUnit & more

Not only for jQuery users but for anyone into JavaScript, his blog is a great source of information & inspiration.

Official jQuery Blog

The blog covers any type of updates related to jQuery from new versions to jQuery-related posts in the blogosphere, events & more.

Official jQuery UI Blog

jQuery UI is a resource which is preferred by many jQuery users. Its blog regularly shares updates about the library and also list the websites that are powered by jQuery UI (which is a nice source of inspiration).

Filament Group Lab

Filament Group, the team who built the ThemeRoller, various jQuery plugins & jQuery UI widgets is sharing their experiences under their Lab blog.

There are both ready to use & experimental jQuery codes shared which are described & discussed in detail.

Learning jQuery

This is a multi-author blog (mostly authored by Karl Swedberg of jQuery Evangelism Team) with lots of tips & tutorials on jQuery for beginners to advanced users.

jQuery For Designers

The website shares very detailed & easy to implement tutorials on interfaces that are improved by jQuery.

Brandon Aaron

He is in the development team of jQuery and, not frequently, shares great info & tips on jQuery usage.

Jörn Zaefferer (bassistance.de)

He is also in the jQuery development team & has created many popular jQuery plugins.

Paul Bakaus

He is the creator of jQuery UI & some popular plugins like "dimensions". It is possible to find information on jQuery & jQuery UI in his blog.

James Padolsey

He is a freelance web developer who writes about JavaScript & has various ideas/codes shared on jQuery. One of them which you may like: jQuery plugin detector.

Soh Tanaka Blog

Web designer & front-end developer Soh Tanaka has beautiful tutorials that are tailored around jQuery.

JankoAtWarpSpeed

Janko Jovanovic is writing very nice tutorials that uses jQuery and also posts other web design-related articles.

nettuts

One of the most popular web design tutorials website has a bunch of tutorials that heavily uses jQuery. And, the website is also a treasure with all the other articles published.

Marcofolio.net

Marco Kuiper, a freelance web designer & developer, is frequently posting web development tutorials that are based on jQuery.

Build Internet!

Build Internet! has a collection of jQuery tutorials that are presented in detail. The website is not totally jQuery-oriented & publishes other development & web-business-related post

David Walsh

He is in the MooTools development team. However, he mostly shares the jQuery versions of the snippets he creates which is also a nice way to compare jQuery with another great framework.

jQuery How To

The website is totally focused on jQuery content. It shares code snippets, "how-to"s that can be handy for and jQuery user.

WebResourcesDepot (shameless self-promotion)

WRD, time-by-time, shares tutorials on jQuery, like:

• Ajaxed Sliding Shopping Cart With jQuery
• Fly-To-Basket Effect With jQuery
• Sliding Top Menu With jQuery
• Load Content While Scrolling With jQuery
• & more..

Also, it is possible to find lots of jQuery plugins & information (like this post) regularly.

 

Any others you know that are missing? Please share them in the comments.

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Securimage is an open-source free PHP Captcha script for generating complex images and CAPTCHA codes to protect forms from spam and abuse. It can be easily added into existing forms on your website to provide protection from spam bots.

It can run on most any webserver as long as you have PHP installed, and GD support within PHP. Securimage does everything from generate complicated CAPTCHA images to making sure the code the user entered was correct.

Requirements: PHP and GD Support
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License: License Free

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Dear Ajaxian Community,

As editors-in-chief so to speak, I always feel that it is important to fully disclose to the community any affiliation change. We have always tried to by balanced, and show that by featuring all kinds of news (for example, we haven't been shy at posting about great WebKit tech while at Mozilla, or amazing IE news ( ;) when at Google.)

Ben and I are now at Palm leading up the developer relations team.

We started devphone awhile back as a place to talk about mobile dev, but I personally didn't have the gas to write a lot about that as I was mainly interested in the Web side of mobile development. Thus, my excitement when Palm released webOS and I had a nice path to take my Ajax skills to the rapidly growing mobile Web market.

You can expect to see some more mobile Web news, just because I will be looking at that world a lot more. However, you shouldn't expect to see any lack of other news, and we also love to accept contributions both as quick links to great Ajax news, but also guest posts. We really do see this as your community!

Also, expect to continue to see Bespin and Mozilla news, because we are very much going to continue to be involved in that community. I am in a Bespin meeting right now! Yay open source, and open companies like Mozilla!

Thanks for being loyal readers for the life of Ajaxian.com so far, and we look forward to serving you even more in the future!

Cheers,

Dion and Ben

HydraFramework is a prescriptive development framework for quickly building Flex applications at every level.

The framework’s development methodology can be totally adopted or the core classes can be used in any way you see fit in projects.

It consists several projects:

• HydraFramework Core – an implementation of MVC (otherwise known as HydraMVC)
• HydraPlugins – for quickly adding prebuilt functionality into the core
• HydraComponents – a library of components built on the HydraFramework.

The framework is well documented & presents a demo.

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We usually post these on Friday, but who says a little fun on Monday is wrong? Paul Brunt has put together a nifty game using the Canvas tag. It's pretty impressive. He is also using Chrome Frame to have the game work on IE as well.

Play it now