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Microsoft just launched a free, lightweight development tool called WebMatrix which is designed to make Web development easy for professional developers. It installs a Web server (IIS Developer Express), a database (SQL Server Compact) and a Web framework (ASP.NET) in one 15 MB package (or 50 MB if…

Microsoft has signed on to contribute to the open-source project Joomla!, a content management system for publishing to the web and intranet sites. According to a post on the Joomla! blog, Microsoft has now signed the JCA (Joomla! Contributor Agreement) and has contributed code that will be…

Although the year isn’t over yet, TIME Magazine has already put out their list of the best websites of 2009. Among the obvious choices on the list (Twitter, YouTube, Hulu, Wikipedia), there are also some rarer gems like musical mood site Musicovery, streaming music up-and-comer Spotify, and online…

The Bing Site Owner’s page is a part of the Bing web service that helps webmasters add a Bing search box to their website. The process for doing this is very simple – and you don’t need to know any code to get started. From the main page, you have one of two options: A basic search box or an…

IETester is a free web browser specifically designed for testing web sites in Internet Explorer including IE 8 beta, IE 7, IE 6, IE 5.5 on both XP and Vista. Like any web browser, IETester has the usual forward and back buttons, refresh, stop, home, and favorite buttons, but it also has a special…

Wow!  The big 100 was reached sometime this September according to Netscraft, an internet monitoring company.  Compare that to roughly 18,000 in August of 1995.  Obviously the ability to create sites easily and make money from the web has an enormous impact on the growth.  Only…