Useful articles and links

• YUI 2.5.1 Released: Improved AIR support, JSON security patch, YUI Configurator, and bug fixes
  The YUI team released version 2.5.1 today and it’s available for download from SourceForge. This is a general patch release with 67 issues addressed throughout the library. 2.5.1 improves support for developers running YUI in Adobe’s AIR environment and addresses an important security issue raised over the weekend regarding JSON parsing in FireFox.
• CSS Message Box collection
  Message boxes are useful elements to display status messages after or during a specific user request. Some days ago I wrote this post about how to implement a nice Ajax chains of effects (fade in, delay, fade out) for a common message box using mootools.
• Top Open Source PHP Frameworks
  After RoR there are lot many frameworks in PHP which are either inspired by it or based on MVC pattern. Today I am throwing some light on some of it, which I came across (I mean heard) during my development experience in PHP. Here I am talking about next generation Open Source PHP frameworks which I came across.
• Rails for PHP Developers
  This function reference covers commonly used PHP libraries to their closest Ruby equivalents. The reference is structured very closely against the PHP reference library.
• To use Open Source or not
  We all know about open source software. The seemingly endless libraries of code and applications ready to use and implement into a business environment. Now colleague Myles Eftos has been discussing the use of open source applications and there implementations of late. This debate is an old as the hills, but still from time to time it’s good to pull it out of the draw, dust it off and start the discussion off again.
• 10 tools for Modern PHP Development
  A simple list of tools for modern PHP development. There are alternatives to most of the tools, but I’ll list native PHP tools wherever possible.
  

Sharepoint and MOSS 2007 resources, articles and tutorials

From now on, i will try to introduce one blog in a week. Here is the Heather Solomon's Blog, which contains an index of resources for SharePoint products and technologies. This list is slightly slanted towards design and customization, but there are also several resources related to other SharePoint topics. All links are organized into categories, then into resource type (article, blog post, topic, etc).

This is the some titles of categories, each including more than 10 articles, blog posts and tutorials.

• SharePoint References and Resources
• Reference Sites
• SharePoint 2003 - Customization/Modifications Tutorials and Articles
• SharePoint 2003 - Miscellaneous
• SharePoint 2003 - Product and Technology Info and Tools
• SharePoint 2003 - Web Parts
• SharePoint 2007 - Customization/Modifications
• SharePoint 2007 - Miscellaneous
• SharePoint 2007 - Product and Technology Info and Tools
• SharePoint 2007 - Web Content Management (WCM)