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A major problem with developing AJAX applications is trying to follow data flowing back and forth between the server and client and the changes being made to the DOM.

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Everyone's favorite communications minister Stephen Conroy today confirmed what had long been suspected. That under the new filtering regime online "adult" games of those perceived to have adult elements such as Second Life will be banned in Australia.
This will apply to all flash games, downloadable games and sites that sell games that do not meet Australia's limited MA 15+ classification.

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The loading time of a webpage is crucial it can mean the difference between a user staying to enjoy your content or heading to a competing site to find the information they are after.
Google up until today has been using an in house tool called "Page Speed", similiar to the Yahoo Y-Slow plugin to aid developers.
Today Google has released the tool to the developer community for download and use to optimize the loading time of their own sites.

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If you have ever done any freelancing or run your own business you have no doubt come across clients like this. For some reason they won't pay full fare but want full service and will hound you relentlessly for not allowing them to screw you over if you try and walk away!

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I have had my ipod touch (2.2.1 firmware) now for almost two months and i have found it to be a great little gadget. Although i have continually been annoyed Apple's efforts to cripple the applications available through the itunes app store eg no last.fm scrobbling, having to sync to itunes to retrieved episodes of subscribed podcasts.

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The Pirate Party in Sweden seems to be making waves after four men where found guilly of helping run the infamous bit torrent tracker site known as The Pirate bay.

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The day has finally come and the latest release of Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) is available for download.

So Whats Been Improved?

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At the moment it may not look to good for the crew behind the Pirate Bay. Although for the site its self it still seems to be business as usual since most servers reside in the Netherlands but after finding this Google custom search for torrent files i am wondering if the Pirate bay is even needed any longer.

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It was announced today that the Debian distribution has added support for the FreeBSD kernel to the Debian archive with supporting both x86 and amd64 architectures. Allowing users to choose between running a normal Linux kernel or a FreeBSD based one.

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The man of the moment Minister for Broadband, misCommunications and the digital economy Stephen Conroy managed to get himself listed this morning for sale on Ebay by a mystery seller under the alias krudd53. The auction only lasted a few hours until Ebay pulled it around midday (either that or it got filtered?) but managed to attract quite an audience in the time it was live.

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