links: June 2008 Archives
If you're fighting the signal to noise ratio in your feed reader like me, you'll enjoy having A Continuous Learner's Weblog on your reading list.
Steve Pietrek (an Ohio boy!) collects handy links almost daily and posts them up. There's a definite lean towards .NET stuff, but also a lot of quality web and programming links.
Steve Pietrek (an Ohio boy!) collects handy links almost daily and posts them up. There's a definite lean towards .NET stuff, but also a lot of quality web and programming links.
Smashing Magazine has a nice series of posts on favicons, with plenty of examples (broken down by theme, like "dark") to help inspire:
- Part 1: Inspire Yourself: 50 Remarkable Favicons
- Part 2: Inspire Yourself: More Creative Favicons
- Part 3: Creative Favicons: When Small Is Beautiful
- Part 4: Creative Favicons: Tiny Artwork
- Episode 5: The Delicate Beauties
- Favicon Episode 6: Black, Abstract and Hand-Drawing
- Episode 7
- Sean McGrath on how to get the most out of XML with the least pain.
- A few quick tips for working on multiple projects. More appropriate for the indie folks, but still useful for the corporate programmer. Just replace 'client' with 'project manager'.
- Yay! A possible practical benefit of all the microformat-ed stuff on your site.
- The lowdown on using Python and Dojo for some easy deployment. (I work with this combination, and deployment is easily half the battle).
John Rockefeller posted his Top 5 Firefox Extensions for Web Developers. It looks pretty good. I find #3 a little on the bubble, though. The Google Toolbar already shows PageRank, but maybe searchstatus is a better use of real estate.
Here are some bloggers I know personally. Check them out, yo:
When I get around to adding Code Softly's blogroll, they'll be on it.
When I get around to adding Code Softly's blogroll, they'll be on it.


