Today I'm opening a new category for posts. Every day I read quite a few blogs and various e-mail newsletters from different places on trends and news in the world of development. Some of the stuff that I read is interesting, but not all of it is exciting enough to mention. So what I'm going to do is to list links to the most interesting articles and posts on other blogs. I will also add descriptions to the links so that you would have some idea what you can expect to see there before you decide to follow the link. Personally I don't like to see links damps that I encounter from time to time and having to click on each of the links just to see what it's all about,.

Software tools

• Drip: IE Leak Detector - a cool tool to help detect memory leaks in Internet Explorer. It might not detect all possible leaks, but it's the step in the right direction. It's a very useful tool for any serious web developer.

  I've tested JavaScript UI library I'm working on and happy to report that Drip didn't find any leaks yet. Getting rid of memory leaks is one of the major goals of the library.

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• Window System File Checker - a knowledge base article from Microsoft on the tool (built into Window XP and Windows 2003) to verify system file's version. It could be useful to check and restore system file that got corrupted or overwritten.

References

• Cheat Sheets - a collection of cheat sheets on such topics as MySQL, Apache programming, CSS, PHP programming and RGB colour chart. Each cheat sheet is a page in PNG or PDF formats that could be printed for quick reference.