Ruby on Rails
The framework that took the programming world (and the internet) by storm! The public release of this framework put the spotlight on
Ruby. This is a great solution to complex web problems. For serious web programming, I have never worked with a more pleasant language/framework.
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Display Stock Info Tutorial
A potential client came to me needing to know if they could display their current stock price on the company website. I knew it was possible. One of my first lessons was how to make a stock ticker in PHP, I just could not remember how I had done it. This tutorial seems to take care of the task with an elegant solution. Of course, it would look a lot nicer without the table in the markup- but you will get the idea.
Awstats quick install guide
It seems like installing and configuring awstats used to be a real pain and require knowledge of perl. Well, now it is easy to get running!
AJAXIAN
A bundling of several technologies, all bound up by Javascript. This is a good site to keep tabs on AJAX related news.