The 'Future of Web Apps' conference is back in London for the 8-10th October, and we've teamed up with the guys at Carsonified to give you a special discount rate on ticket. It's got a great line-up this year, with the usual mix of speakers from startups and the big names - including digg, Facebook, Huddle, Dopplr, Revision3.

If that sounds like you sort of thing, you can get

• 10% off the conference ticket - just enter "FOWA - Conf - ITPro" as the promotional code
• Free entry to the expo - just enter "FOWA-EXpo-ITPro" as the promotional code

To find out more, go to www.futureofwebapps.com/2008/london

As part of our impending re-launch, we decided it was time to smarten ourselves up a little! We've also tweaked our name a little (spaces and capital D's are overrated)

Now all we've got to do is finish the smart website to go with it!

There's some news I'd like to share with you all that I'm pretty excited about! 

As some of you will know, developerFusion has been around for a while - I first founded the site way back in '99 (then known as VB Web). The site has grown enormously since then, and I've been delighted with its success so far - for the last year or two we've been serving well over half a million developers each and every month. It was a challenging balancing game when the site was simply being run as a part-time hobby out of a back room. While we've kept the quality content coming, the site was still falling a long way short of it's potential - and particularly in how we can support the wider developer community as a whole.

But no longer! As of a week ago, I've packed in my day job in order to focus 100% on Developer Fusion. There's going to be loads of changes in the coming months. Hopefully some of them you'll find real value in, and will truly make Developer Fusion the #1 community out there. I'm looking forward to the challenge!

James Crowley
Founder