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The new issue of The Week In Edge Rails is out. This times authors covers such topics as nested form support in Active Record and Action Pack, Rails guides rework and Scaffolding changes.

Opera developers reports about new JavaScript engine called Carakan. It was improved in following three main areas: register-based bytecode, native code generation and automatic object classification.

JS Charts is a free JavaScript based chart generator that requires little or no coding. With JS Charts drawing charts is a simple and easy task, since you only have to use client-side scripting (i.e. performed by your web browser). No additional plugins or server modules are required.

The first release candidate of Rails 2.3 is out. It has following new features:

• Templates: Allows your new skeleton Rails application to be built your way with your default stack of gems, configs, and more.
• Engines: Share reusable application pieces complete with routes that Just Work, models, view paths, and the works.
• Rack: Rails now runs on Rack which gives you access to all the middleware goodness.
• Metal: Write super fast pieces of optimized logic that routes around Action Controller.
• Nested forms: Deal with complex forms so much easier.

Charlie Key posts an article in which he demonstrates how you can show the hand cursor in your Flex applications.

The new issue of This Week In Edge Rails is out. In this issue you can read about nested transactions in Active Records, MemCache enchancements and tests refactoring.

jQuery developers team released new version of jQuery library with several bugfixes.

Authors of the Smashing Magazine posts one more article about web design trends in 2009. Also in the end of this article you will find several links on the similar articles.

Adrian Gondelle posts an article in which he shows how to write MP3 and FLV player on JavaScript.

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