Once again MediaLoot has released a new icon set: Incredibly Detailed 3D Icon Set for free to download. This freebie icon set includes 30 icons and is packaged as 128px transparent PNG with slick detailed design. MediaLoot members will have access to the layered PSD files for all of these icons. You are free to use these icons for personal or commercial projects with attribution to MediaLoot.

Jacob Gube at SixRevisions and Garrick Cheung who is a designer-developer and a member of the official MooTools Community team, has latest released a new book MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide Book published by Packt Publishing. MooTools is one of the most popular and simple-to-use Javascript frameworks on the web. If you’re looking to create dynamic, rich, responsive cross-browser web applications and user-interactive web site applications this beginner’s guide with its easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions is all you need to rapidly get to grips with MooTools. MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide Book is now available as a paperback on Amazon.com. See also another MooTools official reference book: MooTools Essentials: The Official MooTools Reference for JavaScript™ and Ajax Development.

Chapter 1: MooTools and Me
Chapter 2: Writing JavaScript with MooTools
Chapter 3: Selecting DOM Elements
Chapter 4: The Core’s Useful Utility Functions
Chapter 5: Working with Events
Chapter 6: Bringing Web Pages to Life with Animation
Chapter 7: Going 2.0 with Ajax
Chapter 8: Beefing Up MooTools: Using the MooTools More Plugins
Chapter 9: Creating Your Own Plugin

EZ-CSS is a simple, lightweight (1kb only) and flexible CSS Framework for complex table-less layouts and rapid prototyping. EZ-CSS lets you apply any width you want to containers and gutters for building any type of CSS layouts. It’s a easy-to-use CSS framework for creating browser-friendly CSS layouts for your websites. When using EZ-CSS framework, you are not bound to a grid but it allows you create multiple columns of any width, with or without gutters of any width. EZ-CSS has a very small footprint (only 915 bytes) for a fast download time, and it’s also framework agnostic that integrates well with any other style sheet. Rounding issues, rounding errors, and collapsing margin across all containers are all prevented. EZ-CSS is an open source CSS framework and available for download.

• http://www.ez-css.org/

Sypex Dumper is a free web application to backup MySQL databases automatically and instantly. It is built with PHP with an Web 2.0 user interface with AJAX, and can also restore databases without using any third-party program, just pure PHP. Sypex Dumper was created to work with large databases ranging from a few kilobytes to thousands of megabytes. It supports common MySQL service functions such as check, optimize or repair, create/drop databases, easily viewable list of files with the possibility of removal. Sypex Dumper works on Windows and Linux server as well. Two file formats compression (Gzip and Bzip2) are supported as well as varying degrees of compression for GZip. Installation of Sypex Dumper is quite simple, you just need to upload all the files and chmod setting several files. Sypex Dumper requires PHP 4.3.1 or higher and MySQL 3.23.56 and above (up to MySQL5.1). Sypex Dumper 2 is free to download and licensed under the BSD license.

• http://sypex.net/en/