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If you do web site testing on a Mac and would like to use older versions of Safari then you now have the option of using Multi-Safari instead of running ten copies of Mac OS X.

If you play (live?) Second Life then you might be interested in Katharine Berry’s AjaxLife, an AJAX client for the game. You can also find the source on Google Code.

Junction is a new PHP 5 object persistence layer.

YSlow 0.8 has been released.

A new piece of software has come to my attention today, a Mozilla project called WebRunner that aims to provide an easy way to create site-specific browsers (SSBs). The project is basically an extension on the XULRunner software, which itself is standalone version of the XUL engine that underpins the big Mozilla projects (Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird, Seamonkey).

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If you are in the business of creating web sites and applications you might find the following resources helpful:

Apache Ant Homepage
Phing Homepage
Building Web Applications With Apache Ant - Julien Lecomte
Trimming comments in HTML documents using Apache Ant - Julien Lecomte
Improve Your Build Process with Ant - ONLamp
Ant sucks for FTP deployment - What alternatives do we have? - Felix Geisendörfer