Check out Chrome 4's great new features for developers, such as cross-platform support, awesome web inspector integration, and handy new extensions. It's becoming more and more difficult to deny Chrome the title as the new browser for web developers. If it's not quite there yet, it will be soon!

Sometimes, if you use a CMS like WordPress or Movable Type, you could need to change the URL structure in use on your blog with a more SEO friendly structure.
This is a big problem especially if your site is already indexed and some posts are popular on search engines: if you change the URL structure, all your posts will be unavailable at the old URLs and, in this way, you risk to lose visitors and ranking.

A safe way to change the URL structure of your blog, without losing visitors and ranking, is to apply a permanent redirect to your pages (301 redirect).

AIR 2.0 beta is available publicly and when I was asked by Adobe’s marketing team, as well as Apress editor to post some recipes for Flex and AIR in the Adobe Developer connection Cookbooks I decided to combine the two. Adobe are looking to have the Cookbooks gain momentum & I decided to lend a hand and released 10 recipes with applications I built with the new AIR 2.0 APIs while I was part of the Beta program.

Describe how we can DebuggerBrowsable attribute for customizing the debugger window view.

The web form has been one of the most discussed elements in web design for more than ten years now. We can’t help it. Call-to-action functionality often leads users to a form; purchases are made using forms; users register or subscribe using forms — the uses for forms are endless.

A project is always more fun when you've got friends working with you, but how can do it when working on a coding project? I'll keep my keyboard to myself, thanks.

Enter GitHub. With this web service, you can share your coding projects and collaborate with ease!

First think of the consumer of the API. Think about his likely situation and the problems he's facing. He doesn't want to learn a new abstraction and he doesn't like the fact that your API is going to make him change the design of his program. Design for the benefit of the consumer, not your ease of implementation.

Canonical recently launched Ubuntu One, a cloud storage service that synchronizes data between computers. In this programming tutorial, we will show you how to use the service to add cloud syncing capabilities to your own software.

Finding experienced mentors and peers might be the most important thing you can do if you want to become a great programmer. They will tell you what books to read, explain the pros and cons of different languages, demystify anything that seems to you like "magic", help you when you get in a jam, work alongside you to produce great things people want, and challenge you to reach new heights.

My latest side project, was it up?—a free web monitoring service, required a number of VPS instances due to its distributed nature. I previously conducted a comparison of Slicehost and Prgmr. This time I needed to purchase several instances and therefore went out and did a more throughout and wider comparison of which VPS provider would give me the most bang for my buck.