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Build Your First Facebook App
Joe Casabona over at NetTuts gives a really easy to follow tutorial on creating your first Facebook application.
Step 1) Build Facebook App, Step 2) ?, Step 3) Profit!
Facebook Platform: The Fanfare Revisited
Since we’re on the subject of Facebook Apps, Alex Iskold has an excellent article on the Facebook platform. If you [...]

Top 10 Concepts That Every Software Engineer Should Know
This is a very well constructed article on some basic principles of software engineering; very well worth your time to read. Brought to you by none other than Alex Iskold.
Screencasting: How To Start, Tools and Guidelines
Smashing Magazine has a great article to help you get started with [...]

Build Seamless, Fully Functional Forms with No Coding
Collis Ta’eed provides and excellent tutorial on using the Wufoo site to generate web forms with no coding. There are lots of pictures and code samples.
JDK 6 Update 7: Java VisualVM Included
Geertjan Wielenga gives an honest review of the latest Java Development Kit’s new features, including a visual [...]

Books Giveaway: Comment and Win!
That’s right… Smashing Magazine is giving away books on web design and programming. All you have to do is comment on the post and you could win one of eight books.
A beginner’s mootools - create draggable and resizable elements
Nice beginners tutorial on creating dragable and resizable elements on a web page.
deviantART: [...]

Google Shell Online - goosh.org
Any *nix lovers (and Google lovers) should definitely check this site out. It’s basically a shell interface to Google… on a web page. Awesome!
Not An OS
Tim Bray vents his frustration about people calling the internet the “Web OS” and generally comparing the internet to an operating system. Preach on, brotha!
Learning ActionScript [...]

What Science Fiction Can Teach Developers
Casey Charlton gives some insight as to what science fiction can teach developers. It is a very interesting read ending a the statement, “most documentation is totally and utterly worthless.”
OpenID: Does The World Really Need Yet Another Username and Password?
Jeff Atwood gives a very well written analysis of OpenID providing [...]

Managing and applying database changes with LiquiBase
Federico Cargnelutti gives a quick demonstration of how to use LiquiBase, an open source, DBMS-independent library for tracking, managing and applying database changes.
Fibonacci Functions
DeWitt Clinton writes a very interesting article which analyzes the differences in several programming languages by comparing implementations of the fibonacci algorithm.
TuneGlue: Cool Music Discovery Tool… [...]

Log memory usage using declare and ticks in PHP
Dave Marshall, a web developer living in Hull, England, share a really quick and simple trick to allow you to monitor the memory usage of a PHP script. Thanks, Dave!
Magnify’s Really Cool Video and Image Search Tool for Blogs
Mashable.com brings you a review of blogging tool to [...]

Javascript Wolfenstein 3D
Here is a little nostalgia for you gamers out there. The Nihilogic site has created the Wolfenstein 3D video game using Javascript, Canvas and a little AJAX. Pretty cool.
Improving Code Readability With CSS Styleguides
Smashing Magazine brings you a great article on some “best of” practices for keeping your CSS code nice, neat and [...]

Insoshi: Best Social Network Platform Evar
Mashable covers an open source platform for creating your own social network. Insoshi is built with Ruby on Rails and looks like it has most of the bells and whistles that come with modern social networks.
Lycos On the Auction Bloc
Interested in competing with Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Live? Well now [...]