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Google To Hold JavaScript-Centric Hackathon

Food, prizes, and time at the Googleplex are all good things.  So, if Mountain View isn't inconveniently far away, keep the "Google Developer Hackathon: JavaScript APIs" in mind when you're making plans for Friday, February 29th.

Add Vector Shapes Into Google Presentations

You can now add a couple of simple vector shapes into Google presentations: arrows, speech bubbles, a circle, a rectangle and a sun-like shape.

Acid 3 Test Coming Soon

With the announcement that both Firefox 3 and IE8 have passed the acid2 test, Ian Hickson has been working hard on the acid3 test. The new test will focus mostly on ECMAScript and Dom through Selectors Level3, Media queries and data URIs.

Secret Stats In Split RSS Feeds - Google Reader

Google Reader now reports feed usage, and it is being suggested by a prominent Google engineer that you should look at aggregated numbers.

eBay Adds Host Of New Services

eBay has announced a number of new services and platform enhancements to help developers extend eBay content. The announcement was made at the eBay Developers Conference in Boston today.

Love Ajax? Hate The Exploits

Bringing certain content-updating behaviors to web pages without reloading them has been a key piece of the 'Web 2.0' online application meme; it now appears the criminals could have a way to break them open too.

Postbacks with Parameters in JavaScript

Whenever you use a Button or LinkButton it is because you want to be able to do a postback when it is clicked.

Warn a User About a Session Timeout with Javascript

A coworker asked me this so I thought I'd whip up a quick example.

Cancel Flash Requests with JavaScript

Internet Explorer can only make 2 connections at a time, which means that only two elements can be loaded while the rest is queued up.

Opera User Javascript For Google Services

Ionut Alex links to an Opera user JavaScript designed to help Google services work better with the Opera browser.