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The new issue of Riding Rail Magazine is out. You can read about many interesting features of upcoming Rails 2.3 such as unified rendering, prompts for date select helpers and ActiveRecord fixes.

Today you can view two new video lecture in YUI Theater. The first one is from Douglas Crockford. In this lecture he speaks about performance of AJAX applications. In the second lecture Nicole Sullivane speaks about building rich and fast web sites.

The authors of Smashing Magazine continue to create and share various free and useful stuff. This time they offer the Viewport Wordpress theme, a set of Photoshop brushes and several icon sets.

Jonathan Trevor posts an article in which he tells about fundamentals of Yahoo Query Language. Yahoo Query Language is a base platform that opens up Yahoo! user data via web standard APIs and also provides a framework for how developers, publishers, and advertisers can build applications on and off Yahoo!.

Scott Mitchell posts a new article in which he continues to explore various features of ASP.NET authentication. This time he tells shows how to apply ASP.NET authentication and authorization rules to static content with IIS 7.0's integrated pipeline feature

The christmas is coming soon and the authors of the Smashing Magazine post several new beatifull christmas sets of icons that can be used for free on your web sites.

The popularity of JavaScript language is growing fast and there is a lot of peple who writes the games on Javascript. There is an interesting article on the Webresources Depot sites in which author reviews the most amazing games written on JavaScript.

Jon Hobbs-Smith post a new article in which he give a lot of usefull advices about jQuery usage.

Steffen Rusitschka post an article in which he tells about inheritance in JavaScript covering all its aspects.

Authors of the Noupe site posted the big collection of the best Icons created in 2008 year.

Scott Mitchell posted article which can help to do better asp.net application deploy. He mentioted types of configuration settings that should be changed when deploying an application,
but if they are not changed the application will still work in production.
These configuration settings are easy to forget to change, and forgetting to change them can reduce the performance of your application or make it more vulnerable to attacks from malicious users. This article details a handful of configuration settings that fit into this latter category.