iWeb Communities: Blog

Here are the Tech News Highlights for today, Jan. 13th 2009:

• An interesting interview of Marten Mickos, who heads MySQL at SUN. The interview is about the birth of MySQL, as well as the current state of the database
• Review of the new windows 7 at Ars Technica.
• tweetbacks is a new interesting plugin for a Wordpress blog, which allows the blogger to display links to his/her blog post from twitter users
• An article at the ThinkRelevance blog on how the author still prefers prototype to jQuery, with several examples and cases for the javascript libary
• A blog post showing the importance of design and presentation in a software (Windows’ example). For those who are in web design, Smashing Magazine has collected 10 innovative techniques for web application interfaces
• An interesting read for programmers: the top 25 most dangerous programming errors
• An article about the transition for VB.NET to php, for an internal business application. The author lists all libraries, technologies, frameworks and tools used for their stack.

As written yesterday, if you have a suggestion or a link for tomorrow’s edition, do leave a comment