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And, speaking of conferences, there are a couple of Ajax-related shows happening in London in the coming months.

Our friends over at InfoQ pointed us to the Ajax content they have at QCon, a dev conference this March 12-16 in London. This is one of the first Ajax-rich shows we’re aware of in England; Ajax heavy hitters Alex Russell (Dojo), Thomas Fuchs (Script.aculo.us), Joe Walker (DWR), Bruce Johnson (GWT), and others will be speaking.

The month after that, Ajax2007 happens (Apr. 17 - 18). This show has also got a lot of Ajax names, including Jesse James Garrett and Bill Scott (Rico; Yahoo! Ajax Evangelist); Dion and I will also be there to greet our legion of UK Ajaxian.com fans (i.e., Dion’s family).

So if you’re in the UK, a couple of great chances to network with the Ajax community coming up.

A lot of folks have been pinging us about our plans for The Ajax Experience in 2007. We don’t have the dates set yet, but we are definitely holding another Ajax Experience show. It likely will not be in the spring this time around, in order to give interested folks plenty of lead time to make plans to attend. Look for a firm date in the next few weeks.

You might also have noticed that Dion and I are holding a conference for desktop developers: Desktop Matters, in San Jose Mar. 8-9. Some folks have asked if we’re losing interest in Ajax :-) We think there’s obviously room for both Web and Desktop disciplines. This year’s Desktop Matters show is focused on Java, but depending on how it goes, we’d like to do a larger show next year for desktop developers of all technology disciplines.

Picnik is added web-based ikon touching agency that uses Flash to do the onerous lifting.

The UI is simple, and it does a aggregation of the lowercase things that you poverty to do.

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Here is a screencast of Picnik in action.

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Bobby camper der Sluis has cursive up the story of this lovely concern of hacks in Flash Embedding Cage Match.

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SWFFix is a send by Geoff Stearns and Bobby camper der Sluis with the noesis to create the eventual JavaScript accumulation for embedding Flash content.

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OpenToro 4.0, an open source Ajax Web Database Publishing tool, has been released.

OpenToro is a CMS written in Java that allows the development of database driven web Applications in a quick and agile way.

If you need to build simple CRUD applications that are faces onto your database, this could be a tool for you.

Download the set of demo screencasts to learn more.

Dean Edwards pointed us to a simple little utility the Live DOM Viewer.

It let's you throw out some HTML and see a DOM, and a rendered view as you type.

To see this simple guy in action: