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There has been a lot of talk about the perceived conflicts between Adobe Flash and HTML5 lately, but during it's annual developer conference MAX today, Adobe announced a new product for building interactive HTML5 content and highlighted some of the advantages of developing in HTML5. Adobe Edge, as the new tool is called, will allow developers to easily create interactive HTML5 experiences. Adobe also announced a new open JavaScript framework for animations that it will contribute back to the jQuery project, as well as a new collaboration with Google that will bring better layout and typographical fidelity to WebKit-based browsers.

This weekend, at the Boston jQuery conference, the alpha release of jQuery Mobile went live. As the name implies, the project is a user interface framework for mobile devices built on top of jQuery, the most popular JavaScript library used today. With jQuery Mobile, developers can write applications for a number of mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets.

Although still very experimental in its current state, the new technology may have a major impact on mobile Web development going forward.

A quick question with a potentially longer discussion. What do you use for AJAX in PHP, and why?

XAJAX is a simple way to do it, and this is the approach I've been using for some time. In very simple terms, you write PHP methods that can be called from JavaScript by prefixing the method name with xajax_.

Logging statistics is a two-stage process. First, you need to collect the information and store it. Next, you need to expose this information to end users.

It's quite simple to display a table of stats for users to look at, and this is a good option if you need to provide a detailed breakdown. But for analysing large datasets or simply providing an overview of recent activity on a site, a graph may be a better approach.

jQuery, a popular Javascript library that lets website developers do beautiful things with relative ease, is celebrating its 3rd birthday today with an announcement that the project has joined the non-profit Software Freedom Conservancy and the release of a new version.

Project participant Rey Bango points out on the blog Ajaxian today, "considering the churn rate for open source projects, [jQuery's 3rd birthday] is a monumental achievement."