Looking to focus on the budding -- and game-changing -- HTML 5 specification, the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) said Thursday it plans to increase available resources for the effort by discontinuing further development of XHTML 2.

It's an exciting time to be a web developer. The browser wars are in full swing, reminiscent of the mid-90s. Firefox 3.5 was released only yesterday with plenty of cool, new features including HTML5 support for audio, video, offline and local storage, and canvas text.

When developers are forced to sacrifice sound software development practices to ridiculous schedules the results are rarely good.

Major browser vendors have been unable to agree on an encoding format they will support in their products, forcing the W3C to drop audio and video codecs from HTML 5, the forthcoming W3C spec that has been viewed as a threat to Flash, Silverlight, and similar technologies.

"Security in SOA" webinar will focus on key security standards and identity management for SOA with regards to two emerging user centric identities, OpenID & Information Cards, and also XACML for fine-grained authorization. In contrast to traditional security webinar, this will be conducted in a brain friendly manner without making you getting lost in the SOA acronym cloud. Like all SOA summer school classes, this course is FREE. If you are not registered already, you can register now.

The month of July is come in it’s way, and it’s time to select the Best CSS Design for the month of June. There are 14 websites that are worth mentioning to. In no particular order.

I remember when I started working on this particular project a few months ago. When I looked over the code for the first time, I noticed something funny about the cs files. Each cs file contained multiple public types. In the extreme cases, there were dozens of public classes in one file.