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You know how to use AJAX to pull rows from a database, but do you know how to create an AJAX-based system to organize the records neatly into pages? You'll know how to do that by the end of this series! This first article shows you how to build the user interface.

It seems that the naming department in Microsoft has gone crazy in a matter of months. Or maybe nobody is really in charge anymore!

A little less than three months ago, Newsgator announced a couple of new mobile RSS readers that were in the works. One of them was a reader for Windows Mobile devices called SmartRead, which was under development by Kevin Cawley. Now christened NewsGator for Windows Mobile Devices, the product has entered public beta, and is available for download here.

Christian Weyer's talk in Dublin this evening has been cancelled. Unfortunately, Christian has come down with a serious flu bug and can't travel. He sends his apologies and promises that he will be back over soon to Ireland to deliver this talk.

So it's official, just read the confirmation from Robert himself, he's leaving Microsoft for a startup Podtech.net. Funny to see that the blog world was faster than him to report on his new career move.

If you're looking for some cool ways to embed your videos in a webpage, Enric has created an interesting Javascript library vPIP

I received this morning from Google an invitation to try Google Spreadsheets.

This is a note for myself but it could be useful for anybody writing some Ajax calls.