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Joomla 1.6 drives forward with developer conference

The steady march to Joomla 1.6 picked up further steam recently with the release of the project's second alpha release.

Joomla 1.6 Alpha 2 became available last week, and shows the development team is making great strides toward a next generation Joomla.

Front and center in this new release is the long-awaited Access Control Level feature, or ACL. A first release of the "nested categories" and a new backend template made it in the second alpha as well.

With Joomla 1.6 getting closer to a beta release (anticipated sometime in the next few months), the Joomla leadership team is hosting the first-ever Joomla Developer Conference in early December.

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The Best Free Icon Sets of 2009

In 2009 we’ve witnessed many talented and generous designers creating tons of amazing stuff and giving it away for us to use. We’ve already shown you all of the best free fonts from this past year. Now we’re going to show you the best free icon sets. There were plenty of free sets created this year, but these stand above the rest in terms of quality and usefulness.

Basic

Onebit Icon Set 2

Hand Pointer Icons

WP WooThemes Ultimate Icon Set

Led Icon Set

MinIcons

Grunge Peeling Stickers

Onebit

Web Injection

Watercolor Icon Pack

Finance

Flavour Extended

Social Media Icons

Must Have Icons

Social Icons Hand Drawn

Weby Icons

Quartz

Read more: Web Design Ledger

The Best Photoshop Tutorials of 2009

In our “Best of 2009″ series, we’ve already shown you the best free fonts and the best free icon sets. So as this year is getting closer to it’s end, we’re going to continue in this article and present to you our picks for the best Photoshop tutorials of 2009. There were so many amazing Photoshop tutorials written this year, but unfortunately we couldn’t pick all of them. Below you will find the tutorials that we felt stood out from the rest within several different categories.