Thomas Vander Wal explores to topic of state in the newer AJAX interfaces. In his article – State is the Web – he looks at examples of sites developed with AJAX technologies that make good use of state, and others that simply ignore it.

domFunction is an easy-to-use helper script, that allows other DOM scripting to run before window.onload;. The benefit is that javascript doesn’t have to wait for images or other dependencies to finish loading and can begin as soon as the DOM is ready.

Here is an excellent technique for Clearing Floats Without Structural Markup. Prior to a couple months ago, the acknowleged way of clearing floats was to add extra markup, often in the form of an hr element, then applying css rules to that element.

Dave Child has created a nice CSS Cheat Sheet that is extremely useful for hacking together your stylesheets.

Download Squad reports that Reinhold Penner has created three programs that make keeping your OSX open-source browsers on the burning edge. CaminoKnight and FireFix will download and install the daily build for, respectively, Camino and Firefox, while Night Shift gets the latest version of WebKit, Safari’s rendering engine.

Web hosting company Site 5 tells you What Every Webmaster and Web Developer MUST Know About Ruby on Rails and AJAX. This is a great concise read that clearly explains the relationship between Ruby, Rails and AJAX.

IE 7 Beta looks to debut on August 3rd. Should be interesting to see the improvements that MS might make to this browser. I only hope that their standards support is brought up to date.

Michael Goldhaber has written a fascinating article title – The Attention Economy: The Natural Economy of the Net. From his article, he suggests:

If the Web and the Net can be viewed as spaces in which we will increasingly live our lives, the economic laws we will live under have to be natural to this new space. These laws turn out to be quite different from what the old economics teaches, or what rubrics such as “the information age” suggest. What counts most is what is most scarce now, namely attention. The attention economy brings with it its own kind of wealth, its own class divisions – stars vs. fans – and its own forms of property, all of which make it incompatible with the industrial-money-market based economy it bids fair to replace. Success will come to those who best accommodate to this new reality.

If you are an user of Google’s AdSense, here are two tools that will help you keep better track of your revenue.

SysSense displays your current Google AdSense information in the Windows system tray. You can monitor an unlimited number of Google AdSense accounts. A sound and/or system tray icon balloon can be configured to alert you when your statistics have changed.

Not a Windows user or don’t like your tray all plugged up? AdSense Notifier is a Firefox Extension that displays your earnings in the Firefox status bar.

On a somewhat related note, Jason Calacanis tells how he is on his way to earning $1,000,000 this year on the coat-tails of Google. Very impressive!

Saurier Duval has compiled a great list of resources for the awesome client-side wiki called TiddlyWiki. You can find server-side saving written in almost every language imaginable, and many different skins or themes.