If Facebook Answers succeeds by gaining user traction and becoming available through search engines like Google, it would have huge ripple effects on the Web.

This chapter appeals to intermediate level developers and managers who know the basics but haven't mastered LINQ's oddities.

A new study by Bitcurrent and Webmetrics tests the efficiency of leading cloud computing platforms.

Apple's new iPhone developer agreement bans the use of Adobe's Flash-to-IPhone compiler.

The ability to share hardware, software, application development, and maintenance results in cost savings.

The companys adoption of VP8 means that developers will be able to use the codec to encode video and then view it via Flash or HTML5.

Central to the faster browser concept, users will enjoy dedicated application tabs and be able to install add-ons without having to restart the browser.

In a rare missive posted on Apple's site, the CEO calls Adobe's Flash player a "closed system" that doesn't adhere to modern, open Web standards.

A company needs patents, trademarks, copyrights, operating agreements, and equity-vesting schedule documents. There are at least two options on how to get these for free.

The company is trying to attract Web developers to Sharepoint 2010, while at the same time keeping the product integrated with a long list of other Microsoft products.

Learn how to build a company and give it a chance to thrive, while spending nothing more than the legal fee to register as a company and get a domain name.

Learning how Microsoft's F# and WebSharper work could put you on the cutting edge of web site development.

With the stabilizing of the AJAX space, and the resources of a company like Google behind it, XML as a binding language has a great deal to offer.

The <audio> and <video> tags were among the first features to be added to the HTML 5 specification. Find out how these elements enable the browser to work with both types of media in an easy-to-use manner.

One of the new features in the CSS specification lets web developers embed third-party fonts that users can use directly in a web page. Learn how to use this useful feature.

XForms 1.1 improves version 1.0 in areas where the initial specification was either ambiguous or was becoming outdated in the face of evolving web technologies. Get a rundown of some of the notable new features.

Discover how to use the iterators in the Standard PHP Library

The GridPanel is the centerpiece widget for Ext JS, a cross-browser JavaScript library for building rich Internet applications. Learn the basics of loading data from a DataStore and setting up a simple GridPanel.

Discover how to call stored procedures and functions in MySQL from PHP using three database extensions: MySQL, MySQLi, and PDO.

One of the major initial goals of the HTML 5 effort was to update the core HTML form elements to reflect more contemporary thinking. Find out how well the HTML 5 specification has fulfilled that goal so far.