Here, let me help you spin some wheels while you're waiting for the three-day weekend to start. This week we have "deprecated" features in Dreamweaver, a nifty Fireworks command for those of us who need to provide quick comps, how to set up development environments, and Flex vs Ajax benchmarking.

Scott Fegette points to Deprecated features in Dreamweaver, a new TechNote in the Dreamweaver Support Center that warns of features to be dropped in the next version of Dreamweaver. Nothing there i'll miss. How about you? (Scott provides some insight in the comments.)

The Dreamweaver Developer Center has posted new tutorials on setting up a Dreamweaver development environment for ASP and for ColdFusion.

The Dev Center also has a new article on the Demo Current Document command for Adobe Fireworks CS3. Viktor Goltvyanitsa's command quickly exports "mockups and wireframes into a slick slideshow geared for giving presentations to clients or colleagues."

Going to steal some of Chris Long's thunder and point to some impressive benchmarking of Flex vs several flavors of Ajax. If this is important to your work, it's worth wading through the back-and-forth in the comments before making technical choices based on these results. The original test code was written by James Ward who has posted the source so that others can test on in their own environments. Via John Dowdell, who quotes one of the negative comments: "The problem is that _my boss_... could take look at [these results], and ask me to redo our apps using Flex...." Every silver lining has a dark cloud, doesn't it?