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Weekend Learning: Excellent, Free Online Resources From This Week

Some really remarkable resources for open source and web development skill improvement have shown up online this week, including Smashing Magazine's roundup of 50 Excellent AJAX Tutorials (and more)--currently a top performing story on Digg. There are also some great resources for Firefox users. In this post, I'll round up some of these good educational posts, and throw in some learning-oriented highlights from OStatic too.


Two Exhaustive Free Tools for Web Developers

If you're a developer, or would-be developer, working on any type of web-based project, there are a couple of free resources that I recommend for following web application standards, and mastering cutting-edge web development languages. Open source developers and proprietary developers alike can benefit from Opera Web Standards Curriculum and W3 Schools. Both sites are extremely rich in resources for building best-of-breed online applications. Here's what's under the hood.


How They Scale Their Apps: From Flickr to Craigslist

For many developers focused on applications that reside on the web, including open source developers working on database-centric and software-as-a-service sites, the issue of scaling applications is increasingly important. You can find a couple of recent columns we did on cloud computing solutions for scaling applications here. Today, a post on scalability over at James Hamilton's blog caught my eye. He starts out with a discussion of how the database architecture underlying Flickr is constructed, but what's really striking is hisﾠ collection of posts from around the web on how sites ranging from Craigslist to Technorati to Second Life approach scalability.


On the PHP Front, Zend Gets $7 Million in Funding

Providing further evidence that venture capital is continuing to flow to open source and web-focused companies, Cupertino-based Zend has just received up to 7 million dollars from TriplePoint Capital. Zend is a leading provider of products and services for developing, deploying and managing business PHP applications. The move comes right on the heels of another rosy quarter for open source venture capital funding, but maybe there is more to Zend's announcement than meets the eye.


Interviews: Four Open Source Questions for Microsoft

Recently, I got the opportunity to pose a few questions to key people involved with open source efforts at Microsoft, including Sam Ramji (the recently promoted head of Microsoft's open source and Linux efforts), Ori Amiga (Microsoft Group Product Manager, Live Developer Platform), and Susan Hauser (General Manager of Strategic Partnerships and Licensing). They offered up some thought-provoking input on what open source needs, Novell, China, Live Mesh, and other topics. I thank them for taking the time, and please read on for their comments.