OStatic

Some really remarkable resources for open source and web development skill improvement have shown up online this week, including Smashing Magazine's roundup of 50 Excellent AJAX Tutorials (and more)--currently a top performing story on Digg. There are also some great resources for Firefox users. In this post, I'll round up some of these good educational posts, and throw in some learning-oriented highlights from OStatic too.

John Resig, a member of Mozilla's Firebug development team, announced yesterday that the final version of Firebug 1.2 had been released. Firebug is a debugger for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that sits within the Firefox Web browser. It has become an essential tool for Web developers, particularly those who use the modern technique known as Ajax ( asynchronous JavaScript and XML ).