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Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Release Candidate 1. It has several bugfixes and improved compatibility with third-party Web sites and programs. The full list of changes you can read in the release notes.

Steve Sanders released xVal -a validation framework for ASP.NET MVC. xVal lets you link up your choice of server-side validation mechanism with your choice of client-side validation library. It guides you to fit them both into ASP.NET MVC conventions, so everything plays nicely with model binding and errors registered in ModelState.

Nicholas Zakas posts two articles in his blog in which he shows how to increase the speed of JavaScript applications. You can read the first and second chapters in his blog