First of all, Happy New Year guys!

The first great news (and is kinda old, is from the last year ) is about jQuery UI 1.6. We have a new RC4 for testing and reporting bugs with a brand new theme roller. Whats this mean? Well.. Not too much if you are not using jQuery

The second great news (and is related somehow with first one) is that jQuery 1.3 is in beta 2, according to John. Is related with first news because final UI will work only with jQuery 1.3 so if you test, make sure you test both. If you don’t want to test jQuery 1.3 I think you don’t know what you missing: brand new selector engine, large portion of code was rewritten, and so on. Long story short: HUGE performance improvement.

Let’s hope the final version of both jQuery and UI will be released soon and bug free

Later edit: jQuery 1.3 b2 on official blog.

Well… jQuery 1.3 is out. It’s beta, but still!

• A brand new selector engine
• DOM manipulation engine has been almost rewritten
• Event Namespace rewritten.
• And more

Go claim your copy and start testing!

Also, the best IM client from the ice age until now - pidgin - has a new improved version 2.5.3.

• Wordpress 2.7 Final is out. When you upgrade, if with no reason your blog display blank pages (both on admin and front end), disable all plugins. Actually it’s recommended that you disable all plugins BEFORE any update attempt. I know this because i didn’t disable any plugins
• Learn how to do a mini shopping cart using a lil’ bit of scriptaculous and prototype.
• Improve your forms aspect and behaviour.
• Create an amazing music player with mouse gestures and keyboard control using jQuery
• Sitepoint has released a new book in series of “The principle….” : The Principles Of Successful Freelancing. You can see a sample article here.
• Even if it’s not related to web development in any way, take a look at this gorgeous dual monitor wallpapers

• List of many (MANY!) free icons
• Mission Impossible - A diagonal navigation menu with css. Some issues on big menus, but it’s a great idea!
• Wordpress 2.6.5 is available. But if you already have a blog, you already know that
• Do you know that you can use Wordpress built in JS libraries (like jquery, prototype, and so on) with no effort? MUST read for WP theme developers
• Section 508 guide. Even is only for US, it’s a nice reading for guys who get work from US
• Yet another jQuery based slider : s3Slider
• The Art & Science of CSS for FREE. All you have to do is to folow sitepoin on tweeter.com
• Chris Coyier (you know, the guy behind the css-tricks.com) said: it’s wordpress week! Every day you will find a nice article related to wordpress.
• Do you know jQuery? On themeforest you can find a series of jQuery tutorials for absolutely beginers. Worth a shot!

I hope you like it guys!

• OXID eSales is an Open source e-shop which can be a better alternative to OSCommerce, Zencart, and other ANTIQUE shops.
• If I start talking about shops, take a look at simpleCart(js). You don’t need nothing but a paypal account and few minutes to set up. No PHP, no MySQL, no nothing (but if you want, you can use).
• And the last link for shops will get you to Sitepoint: How to pick the right shopping cart? Seven carts reviewed
• Sort your tables with no effort and no huge libraries like prototype or jquery (even if I am a big fan of jQuery, I can’t use it on every single project, especially when is a small project)
• Kaltura - Open source video platform. Which mean you can start your own youtube and hope that google will buy you
• Choose a PREMIUM Wordpress theme. For FREE.
• And the last link is still about Wordpress: 10 Tutorials for working with with comments(best of!).