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Adobe and Microsoft are both large companies with hundreds of bright minds developing ideas for them. The playing field as far as I can see it is pretty level. Who becomes number one and two is going to depend on how good these ideas are and how well they are implemented.

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The release of PHP 5.3 is going to be a true upgrading to the server-side scripting language for Web applications. Last week the PHP Community reveal that a beta release will be coming in October of 2008. This version is being preped for use in the commercial world.

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In the last few days I have been visiting new websites that use Flash technology. I Have flash installed but have been tortured by notices to update the flash version. Suddenly to me flash is not so appealing anymore. I never had to do these upgrades before.

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Adobe's Flex and Zend's PHP will be more closely integrated. The goal is to make it easier for web developers to create enterprise-ready rich Internet applications by leveraging Zend’s PHP technologies on the server side, and Adobe Flex in the web client.

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Google's release of the Chrome web browser is causing all kind of ripples. But it is not worrying the Firefox or Microsoft programmers. The reason for there calm is because Google has just joined the security war.

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Not many know this but Synfig Studio for flash animation is GPL GNU licensed and cross-platform. Here's a tutorial on how to get started using it under Linux.

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Blines are the most used object in any normal animation done with Synfig. The Bline tool allows you to create them. This tutorial shows you how to do it the older way. Synfig Studio has since been updated so that doing bline creation and shapes is even easier.

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Blines the construct for describing shapes in Synfig Animation Studio. Blines are the most used object in any normal animation done with Synfig. The Bline tool allows you to create them. Basic primitives such as circles or rectangles are all great, but they are pretty much geometrically inflexible. What about other shapes? This tutorial shows you how.

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Two-dimensional animation has long been the domain of proprietary software. That changes with the introduction of Synfig, a free software/open source tool for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources.

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Forgotten about in all the IE7 hype is the next Firefox release. Well to make it publically known I am not at all interested in IE7. It is way too soon to be concerned with it. I am however interested and concerned with the way websites look in Firefox2 Beta. Installing Firefox2 Beta would mean replacing a stable Firefox 1.5. When what I need is to be able to switch back and forth between them.

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