New Workspace option in TFS 2011

It looks like all of the problems of the server controlled workspace will go away with TFS 2011. Local files will no longer be read-only and the problem of missing files will go away. Hopefully merges will get easier, too.

It’s interesting to see why they went with the server controlled workspace in the first place, but it basically created a system that worked well for Microsoft, but not most of their customers.

No word on when TFS 2011 will ship, though. But since they are calling it TFS 2011, maybe we will get something before the end of the year.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2011/08/02/version-control-model-enhancements-in-tfs-11.aspx

Microsoft “How Do I” videos

Here is a great source to learn more about different technologies in the Microsoft products that we use.  There are videos for both IT and Developers.

Microsoft “How Do I” Videos

IT Professionals:	Developers:
Azure	ASP.net AJAX
Deployment	.NET Framework
Internet Explorer	Dynamics AX
Internet Explorer Security	Internet Explorer
Exchange	Native Coding
Exchange Online	Office
Forefront	Security
Microsoft Online	Team Foundation Server
Office Communications Server	Visual Basic
Script Center	Visual Studio 2008
Security	Visual C#
SharePoint Server	Windows 7
SQL Server	Windows Forms
System Center	Windows Phone
Virtualization
Windows Client
Windows Mobile
Windows Server 2008
Windows Server Terminal Services
Windows SharePoint Services

reMIX South August 6th in ATL

http://www.remixsouth.com/

Details:

reMIX South is an all-day event that brings designers and developers together to learn the latest technologies and best practices in our industry.

ReMIX South features four tracks:
User Experience / Web / Mobile/Tablet / Kinect

Each track features a killer line up of some of the most knowledgeable speakers presenting relevant and exciting content in their respective fields. Get inspired, get engaged and take part in the future of the web.

What is it?

If you love User Experience, Web, Mobile/Tablet, and Kinect, you’ve come to the right place.

Join the conversation at ReMIX South– Connect with other professionals that are just as passionate as you are about your craft. Get real answers from experts, network with the community and learn about the latest technologies and trends at ReMIX South.

Where is it?

Marriott Perimeter Center

246 Perimeter Center Parkway NE

Atlanta, GA 30346

How much?

Early Bird Pricing (Before July 29th)

$30.00

ASP.NET MVC 4 Roadmap

Roadmap was just released for the new version, some cool things are included: http://aspnet.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=ASP.NET%20MVC%204%20RoadMap

Web Links

I’ve accrued a vast resource library related to HTML5, JQuery, CSS, ASP.NET MVC, Node.js and other design and programming related stuff, thought I’d share it with all of you in case you’re interested. The Firefox links can be found here (and imported to FF if you like). Actual content pasted below as well.

Location: \\isgfile02\DevTools\Training\bookmarks.html

Training

 

cmiVFX | Flame_3D_Matte_Paintings

Recreating the HTC clock widget with CSS3 | Seth Stevenson

9 Ways To Improve the SEO of Every Website You Design

Here are nine ways to improve the SEO strength of every website you design.

Understanding Copyright And Licenses – Smashing Magazine

In this article, we’ll cover the basic principles that govern copyright and licenses. We’ll then explore common licenses in our industry, with examples.

Creating HTML Emails : An Overview for Web Designers

This guide — oriented towards web designers who are already familiar with HTML and CSS — is a basic overview of designing HTML emails.

jQuery Techniques For Good User Experience | Onextrapixel – Showcasing Web Treats Without A Hitch

These good practices all have their individual translation into jQuery components that can be applied and customized to achieve each user interaction goal.

LukeW | An Event Apart: The Responsive Designer’s Workflow

In his presentation at An Event Apart in Atlanta, GA 2011 Ethan Marcotte talked about applying responsive web design principles and workflows to the redesign of a major newspaper Web site. Here’s my notes from his talk on The Responsive Designer’s Workflow …

Why Persuasive Design Should Be Your Next Skill Set | UX Magazine

4 Types of Grids And When Each Works Best | Van SEO Design

Making and Maintaining Your Online Portfolio: Best Practices | Onextrapixel – Showcasing Web Treats Without A Hitch

Having a portfolio online is important to any creative. Having the possibility to show your best work samples to new clients is a very important step in the process of getting new projects. You can even get clients from your portfolio alone if you spread the word a bit.

How To: Great Web Typography in 10 Minutes | Onextrapixel – Showcasing Web Treats Without A Hitch

Typography in web design can be a lot more complex than it seems. Being able to read content easily is a leading usability concern, but typography is also very much an aesthetic concern.

Note to entrepreneurs: Your idea is not special | Entrepreneurial

Many entrepreneurs think their idea is special and magic. And they are wrong. The great entrepreneurs are already focused on the implementation of their idea.

Creating Depth in Web Design: 5 Design Tricks | Onextrapixel – Showcasing Web Treats Without A Hitch

Giving depth in design can give a website a unique feel, and a more memorable appeal. Depth can create a sense of realism, even if it’s presented in an abstract way.

Adobe Illustrator 101: 10 Things You Should Know About Ai | Design Shack

Reading an article entitled Adobe Illustrator 101: 10 Things You Should Know About Ai on Design Shack.

Grid Theory » General, Layout » Design Festival

When most people think about grids, they think about engineering and architecture. However, the grid is an essential tool for

Useful Ideas And Guidelines For Good Web Form Design – Smashing Magazine

This article presents some interesting examples and useful guidelines for Web form design.

Color Animate Any Shape with a Knockout PNG | CSS-Tricks

Using a graphic where the solid parts match the background of a site and the transparent parts make the shape, we can let a background color bleed through. This allows us to set that color through CSS, and do any fancy thing CSS can do, like say animate that color.

Agile Web Development That Works

An Awesome Collection Of 80 Photoshop Typography Tutorials « Design Resource Box

Having good typography skills is a must for a designer and the way you can develop them is by learning from the best techniques that are available on the net. Finding them all in one place is a little bit tricky… unless you find this article where you have almost all the cool and interesting Photoshop typography tutorials. I don’t really like doing such big collections like this one, but had to put all of these tutorials in one place for the enthusiast designers so there you have it, 80 typography tutorials from which you can learn the tips and tricks about creating good typography.

Rockable Press | How-to Books for Creative Professionals

Rockable Press provides books and resources for getting good at what you do!

Script Junkie | Managing Application Resources with the Flyweight Pattern

Basix: Common Mistakes in Web Design | Webdesigntuts+

The Keys to Making Fresh, Forwardly Aesthetic Web Designs – Noupe Design Blog

Eight Important Factors of Good Web Typography | Webdesigntuts+

Good typography can be a cornerstone to a successful design. Today, we’ll review 8 crucial web typography tips to help improve your websites!

Psychological Manipulation in eCommerce Design | UX Booth

Photoshop Masking Tips | Viget Inspire

Font sizing with rem – Snook.ca

Snook.ca – Web Design, Development and Consulting Services

An Introduction to Copywriting for the Web | Onextrapixel – Showcasing Web Treats Without A Hitch

As a writer working almost exclusively online, I’m often reluctant to encourage others to try copywriting if they don’t understand the online marketplace.

Designing for Content: Creating a Message Hierarchy – Web Standards Sherpa

Designers who replace Lorem Ipsum in their comps or wireframes are underscoring the importance of quality content. But why not start sooner, before a single line is drawn?

Designing Faster with a Baseline Grid | Teehan+Lax

Lately, grids have become the ultimate obsession of designers and design writers. Hundreds — not to say thousands — of articles, tutorials, books an

Essential E-Commerce Website Features: Tips and Examples

Learn tips and discover examples for designing crucial and common sites features that you will find in almost all e-commerce websites.

Learn jQuery & JAVASCRIPT for free | appendTo Developer Learning Center

A List Apart: Articles: Fluid Images

How to Author a Super Accessible Website

 

Inspiration

 

Forefathers Group | The New Design Frontier

Enlivened by mirth, provoking surprise and marvelous feats, the Forefathers web design group fashions the world’s most electrifying logos, websites, illustrations, and back-end content management systems.

Bret Victor, beast of burden

Number Picture – Crowd-Sourcing New Ways For People To Visualize Data

Number Picture is a web application that enables you to come up with, easily create, and share fresh and interesting tools for visualizing data – that others can then use to visualize their own data.

Silk

Create your own generative art with Silk.

Parallax Scrolling Websites: Effective Examples and Resources |… – StumbleUpon

The Godfounder Blog – Virality in Web Apps

Details that make web apps successful – we call it stuff no one can refuse.

100 (Really) Creative Business Cards | Webdesigner Depot

Whichever business you’re in, and especially for anyone in the field of design, such as web designers, a business card can be as important as your website

15 Jaw dropping Cinemagraphs (Part 2)

It’s really fun to see moving things in simple image. As we promised here is the second part of beautiful Cinemagraphs. We also included tutorial for creating Cinemagraph.

12 Awesome websites with continuous scrolling | Awwwards

We have already seen the continuous scrolling effect in sites like Google Reader or Tumblr, but this trend is growing strong. It can be a smoother solution to

100 Amazing Futuristic Design Concepts We Wish Were Real | Webdesigner Depot

Concept designers are also referred to as visual futurists. These concept designs may not be on the market yet, but they can still inspire you to create

Communicating with Your Visitors: 50+ Inspirational Contact Forms |… – StumbleUpon

Creative Week Cape Town | Feel it. Host it. Be Part of it.

Chirag Solanki – Freelance Web Designer, Graphics Designer, Creative Logo / Website Designer from India

Chirag Solanki – Freeelance Web Designer, Graphic Designer from India. Providing website design, logo design, newsletter design, Ecommerce Website Designer, CMS integration such as Joomla, Zencart, WordPress, Template Design Services.

Database Error

Showcase of Inspiring “About Me” Pages | Nettuts+

A creative about me page will attract a reader’s attention, and, more importantly, provide them with a quick sampling of what you or your company represents.

50 Stylish Navigation Menus for Design Inspiration

There are many ways to design a navigation menu – and since almost all websites have some form of navigation – designers have to push their creative limits to build one that’s remarkable and outstanding. In this article, you’ll find a showcase of beautiful, creative, and stylish navigation menus for your inspiration.

Ribbons and tags in web design | Webdesigner Depot

Trends can be born so silently and subtly that we seldom notice them. And when you survey hundreds of websites, you often see patterns that you would

IMDB Filmpage Concept on the Behance Network

What don`t have the current IMDB design? It is overloaded. Large amount of unstructured information. While most users of such sites pay attention mainly to the pictures, videos and more. So I did a clean and sleek design. Here, the user receives a screen …

Create a Surreal Out of Bounds Photo Manipulation in Photoshop | Psdtuts+

In this tutorial we will combine several images of water, animals, and people to create a surreal out of bounds photo manipulation in Photoshop.

21 Effective Infographic Animations using Stylish Typography

These infographics combined with graceful kinetic typography not only engages the audience but also informs us with valuable information.

Hot Web Design Trends: Parallax Scrolling Effects in 90 Examples | Splashnology

Case Study: Designing Business Card that Rocks!

Business cards are hard printed medium for spreading word about your business and what you do. These papers should truly stand the test of time and patience

25 Examples of Thumbnail Usage in Web Design | Codrops

Wikipedia tells us that thumbnails are reduced-size versions of pictures, used to help in recognizing and organizing them, serving the same role for images as a normal text index does for words. And as we all know, a picture is worth a thousand words, so using an image in a nice and beautiful form can give your layout a very neat look.

Showcase of Impressive Design Process Explanations

A common feature amongst the top design portfolio and agency websites is a visually presented explanation of their design process. This simple idea of

20 Fantastic pseudo-Flash websites | Webdesigner Depot

A pseudo-Flash website is one that looks, feels and acts like a Flash website but is in fact built on good old-fashioned HTML and CSS. There is usually also

Hello | Lifepath

40 Fabulous E-commerce Fashion Websites | Sharebrain

In today’s post we are featuring 40 awesome clothing E-commerce websites. An E-commerce store is an online store. They are extremely important to a busi

30 Colorful Website Designs for Inspiration | InspireMonkey – Neverending… – StumbleUpon

Standard Trends in New-Age Minimalist Logo Designs | Design Shack

Reading an article entitled Standard Trends in New-Age Minimalist Logo Designs on Design Shack.

Logopond – Identity Inspiration

Logo Pond – A place to fish for ideas, Brand and Identity showcase

Showcase of Beautifully Designed Charts & Graphs

Colin’s application (and why we hired him to be our Apprentice) | Mark Boulton Design

30 Creative QR code business cards | Webdesigner Depot

There is a lot of buzz around QR codes at the moment, so we thought we would take a look at some of the most creative and stunning QR code business cards on

Inspiration Roundup: 30 Career Changing Portfolio Sites | Webdesigntuts+

Today, we’re going to roundup some of the best portfolio sites on the net in a massive visual extravaganza. Ready to be inspired?

25 examples of symmetry in web design | Webdesigner Depot

Symmetry is an age-old device of the visual artist. The word refers to two halves that perfectly mirror each other. In design, symmetry is closely tied to

30 Creative Navigation Menus | SpyreStudios

It’s not always easy creating a navigation menu that stands out, and also serves its purpose without getting in the way. Sites that have a huge number of category pages in particular can be quite daunting as the navigation can soon get out-of-hand. Other sites may want to show off a beautiful design, and have the navigation work to compliment that. We have selected 30 inspiring navigation menus that have been crafted carefully, fit the personality of the site perfectly and remain creative & interesting whilst still being useful. 1927

Stampaxx

21 Amazing jQuery Images Galleries Sliders and Slideshows Plugins | Onextrapixel – Showcasing Web Treats Without A Hitch

By supposing that (s)he’ll somehow pass that hard to understand bunch of code, the problems appear when it’s not XHTML/CSS anymore, but more advanced programming languages or JavaScript libraries.

 

Design Related

 

Call to Action Buttons Best Practices Guide – UX Movement

Your buttons may call users to act, but do they compel users to act? Buttons can come in different shapes and forms, but a button isn’t effective if it doesn’t compel users to take action.

All About Website Sidebars: Content, Design, and Examples | Onextrapixel – Showcasing Web Treats Without A Hitch

What goes into your sidebar? Some site owners may choose to fill it up with anything – a place for anything and everything, just like a website junk drawer. However, a sidebar can be valuable real estate on any website, and depending on what the website’s purpose is, can help further reach the goals of the website.

20 Photoshop tips for web design | Tutorial | .net magazine

Being a web design hero isn’t about trendy effects, but sound design fundamentals and knowing your way around Photoshop, says Dan Rose

Breaking The Design Cycle: Get Creative To Be Creative | Webdesigner Depot

Designers, we have a problem. It seems we have forgotten how to be creative. It is true, the very nature of what we do is based on creativity, however more

Instant Attention in Web Design | Onextrapixel – Showcasing Web Treats Without A Hitch

Humans are pretty judgemental creatures when you think about it. We often get impressions from people and make snappy judgements or draw stereotypes in all sorts of cases.

Awesome and Unusual Places to Steal Color Palettes From | Design Shack

Reading an article entitled Awesome and Unusual Places to Steal Color Palettes From on Design Shack.

Getting Users to Sign Up: Factors in Design and Content

This article gives the reader strategies and methods for enhancing website conversion rates using popular techniques and best practices.

A Sampling of Design Resources from the Web Design Masterclass » UIE Brain Sparks

What should someone appreciate when seeing a logo?

What should someone appreciate when seeing a logo?

The Basics of Typography

Typography is a central component of design. It gives us an understanding of the heritage behind our craft. It’s one of the primary ways we, as a society, pass on information to others. Imagine a website, a magazine or even TV without text. Typography is a subject that raises passions and it can become a consuming obsession. If this subject is relatively new to you, or perhaps something you want to know more about, then this guide can start you on that journey.

9 Tips on How To Improve Yourself as a Web Designer

Rediscovering humanity in design | Webdesigner Depot

“ … One of the roles of design is to bring humanity, intelligence and beauty to the world of business, and indeed to everyday life.” – Michael

7-Step Process All Designers Should Follow To Complete Every Project

Designing For Android – Smashing Magazine

For designers, Android is the elephant in the room when it comes to app design. As much as designers would like to think it’s an iOS world where all anybody cares…

Is It Time to Rethink Website Navigation?

User interfaces have evolved by leaps and bounds in recent times. However, navigation designs have remained unchanged. Is it time to think outside the box?

23 Books About Design You Ought To Read | Van SEO Design

xheight – Going Dark – ideas on design

If you’ve had occasion to watch the TV series 24, you’ve probably felt the excitement that comes when you hear one of the agents utter the phrase, “I’m going dark.” Going dark ensures that said agent would not become distracted from their objective by removing all communication (e.g. distraction) until after their objective is complete; […]

xheight – Speak to me (self promotion online) – ideas on design

We have many platforms online to share our design work. Is sharing really self promotion though? You can get your work out there in a controlled space like a personal website, or in more social arenas like LoveDsgn or Dribbble, but how many viewers remember who you are? They see and love your design—maybe even like […]

The Do’s and Don’ts of Dark Web Design | Webdesigner Depot

Dark web designs are very popular and can have an elegant and creative appeal. They are also perfect for many types of client work however, they are not

It’s Not About “Engagement”: Using Social Media To Make Ideas Happen :: Tips :: The 99 Percent

<div>Mastering social media means learning how to communicate your ideas with sincerity and passion. It&rsquo;s not rocket science, it&rsquo;s reciprocity.</div>

#The50 Things Every Creative Should Know

Effective Minimalism in Experience Design | UX Booth

Best Practices For Designing Websites For Kids – Smashing Magazine

Designing websites and related media for kids presents plenty of opportunities for Web designers. Openings are available at many businesses and schools, as well as…

The Design of Design Studio | Semantic Foundry, LLC

Teach Yourself Graphic Design: A Self-Study Course Outline | Psdtuts+

Fortunately, it isn’t required to go to design school in order to be a graphic designer. A good foundation in graphic design history, theory, and practical

How to use AB testing, eye tracking and Website Optimizer | Feature | .net magazine

What’s the best way to present content: a grid or list view? Alastair Campbell explains how Nomensa used A/B testing, eye tracking, Google Analytics and Website Optimizer to help the .net team decide for the launch of http://www.netmagazine.com

The secret power of personality « Boagworld

A podcast for those who design, develop and run websites.

Using the Law of Attraction in Web Design | Onextrapixel – Showcasing Web… – StumbleUpon

Helpful Tips & Tools for Web Design Experiments | Design Shack

Reading an article entitled Helpful Tips & Tools for Web Design Experiments on Design Shack.

Build Your Business Around Your Customers (not the other way around) – Activeside of design

Useful Wireframing and Prototyping Tools – Roundup

Concept of globalization hits the world with ceaseless creativity and imagination amongst people ranging from the youths to the elders. Judging by the fact that

Font-weight in the age of web fonts » Blog » Elliot Jay Stocks

User Experience – Stack Exchange

Interaction Design Pattern Library – Welie.com

Interaction Design pattern library. More than 120 patterns for web designers. All patterns include examples, explanations and even links to literature and code

useit.com: Jakob Nielsen on Usability and Web Design

Research findings from many usability studies 1994-2011. Regular Alertbox column + Web design guidelines. Conferences and training courses.

UX Magazine | Defining and Informing the Complex Field of User Experience (UX)

A List Apart

ignore the code

Creating Passionate Users

Aza on Design

 

CSS3

 

39 Ridiculous Things To Do With CSS3 Box Shadows | Viget Inspire

Trigger CSS3 Animations with jQuery « Thomas Reynolds

The 30 CSS Selectors you Must Memorize | Nettuts+

Twice a month, we revisit some of our readers’ favorite posts from throughout the history of Nettuts+. This tutorial was first published in November,

TJ Holowaychuk • Styling Canvas Drawings With CSS

Styling Canvas Drawings With CSS Today I implemented an idea to style canvas elements with CSS, I’ve never personally seen this done, and it’s not always practical, but in some cases it would be very…

Normalize CSS : necolas/normalize.css @ GitHub

LESS « The Dynamic Stylesheet language

Amazing CSS3 techniques you should know | CatsWhoCode.com

Flux Slider Demo » Hardware accelerated image transitions using CSS3

Five Useful Interactive CSS/jQuery Techniques Deconstructed – Smashing Magazine

In this article, we’ll walk through five interactive techniques that you can start using right now.

CSS3 Generator

Thumbnail Hover State Overlay

Useful :nth-child Recipes | CSS-Tricks

I get a little giddy when I come across perfect uses for :nth-child or :nth-of-type (read about the difference). The better you understand them, the more css nerdgasms you get to have!

Mastering CSS Reflections in Webkit | Design Shack

Reading an article entitled Mastering CSS Reflections in Webkit on Design Shack.

A Whole Bunch of Amazing Stuff Pseudo Elements Can Do | CSS-Tricks

It’s pretty amazing what you can do with the pseudo elements :before and :after. For every element on the page, you get two more free ones that you can do just about anything another HTML element could do. They unlock a whole lot of interesting design possibilities without negatively affecting the semantics of your markup. Here’s a whole bunch of those amazing things. A roundup, if you will.

perkins CSS3 LESS Framework

Sexy CSS3 menu – Red Team Design

Create a CSS3 Wheel Menu | Webdesigntuts+

I’m going to teach you how to create an awesome, layered CSS3 wheel menu using a few beginner to advanced CSS techniques.

Fluid Width YouTube Videos | CSS-Tricks

YouTube now gives you iframe code for embedding videos hosted there onto your own page. This article offers a jQuery JavaScript based solution for making them work in fluid width environments, which they inherently do not.

How To Develop Elastic Grid Layouts In CSS | Van SEO Design

CSS3 video tutorial – learn CSS3 // Think Vitamin Membership

Learn CSS3 using our library of CSS3 video tutorials.

20 Super Techniques For CSS Page Layouts

Collection of huge list of CSS Page Layouts. If you are short of time, you can download ready made CSS Page layouts and if you want to add certain personalized touch.

3D Ribbon Generator – CSS3d.net

CSS3 Now! Transitions | Splashnology

CSS3 and HTML5 are developing faster and faster, browsers begin to support more new features. In this regard, I would like to make a series of review articles about these new technologies. In this cycle, I would like to consider such CSS3 properties like transition, animate, opacity and rgba () model

Techniques for Context Specific Images | CSS-Tricks

One of the shortfalls of using CSS media queries as the only ingredient of a mobile solution is that the same content gets served to both desktop browsers

Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator – ColorZilla.com

A powerful Photoshop-like CSS gradient editor

Farewell Floats: The Future of CSS Layout | Design Shack

Reading an article entitled Farewell Floats: The Future of CSS Layout on Design Shack.

CSS3 Isometric Text Demo – Midwinter Duncan Grant

Demo: Pure CSS GUI icons (experimental) – Nicolas Gallagher

Experimental use of CSS to create 84 common graphic user interface icons from semantic HTML.

Pseudo Spriting | CSS-Tricks

CSS sprites are almost always the way to go when it comes to applying background images with CSS efficiently. One hurdle you may come across is when you want to apply an image that’s a part of a sprite to an element with an unknown height and width. We can hurdle that hurdle with CSS pseudo elements.

jQuery quickie: Colourful rating system with CSS3

marcofolio.net, jQuery quickie: Create a colourful, simple yet powerful rating system with CSS3.

CSS3 Animation Keyframe Events

Ceaser – CSS Easing Animation Tool – Matthew Lein

Ceaser is an interactive CSS easing animation tool. It lets you build any kind of ease you want, and comes with many of the Penner Easing Equations.

Sass – Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets

Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets

holmes.css – CSS Markup Detective

A new micro clearfix hack – Nicolas Gallagher

CSS Tricks for Smart Quotes and Tooltips

How to Create Fast CSS3 Tooltips | Webdesigntuts+

Today there are tons of websites and applications out there using tooltips but… is there a better way to implement them without Javascript? There sure is!

CSS3 Generator – By Eric Hoffman & Peter Funk

StackLayout – A flexible width, component based CSS layout system

Flip Clock Rendered Completely in CSS (No Images)

50 Useful CSS Tools And Generators for Developers – Noupe Design Blog

Some Brilliant CSS3 Articles and Tutorials | webexpedition18

We have collected some excellent CSS3 articles and tutorials presenting powerful and innovative coding techniques for your convenience.

 

HTML5

 

HTML5 Event Attributes

Free HTML XHTML CSS JavaScript DHTML XML DOM XSL XSLT RSS AJAX ASP ADO PHP SQL tutorials, references, examples for web building.

Rich snippets (microdata, microformats, and RDFa) – Webmaster Tools Help

Front End Development Guidelines

Responsive Images: Experimenting with Context-Aware Image Sizing | Filament Group, Inc., Boston, MA

At Filament Group, we build elegant communications and interactions that help people understand, work, and collaborate effectively across a variety of media – from web sites to wireless, to interactive exhibits and print.

10 Tools for Evaluating Web Design Accessibility

Build a Neat HTML5 Powered Contact Form | Nettuts+

In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to create a swanky HTML5 AJAX powered contact form. The form will use some of the new HTML5 input elements and

schema.org – Full Hierarchy

HTML EMAIL BOILERPLATE v 0.4 updated 5/12

HTML Email Boilerplate website.

7 Steps for the Perfect Landing Page | Codrops

When I design landing pages I don’t try to cram everything above the fold and clutter up the top 500 pixels of my design, but I do like to design so that images, headlines or text teeter on the line. This creates a ‘teaser’ for the user to scroll down more and check out the rest of the page.

A Book Apart, Responsive Web Design

Gridless – An awesome boilerplate for responsive, cross-browser websites

Book of Speed

Media Queries

960 Grid System

The 960 Grid System is an effort to streamline web development workflow.

Annotated <figure>s in HTML5 and CSS — CSS Wizardry—CSS, Web Standards, Typography, and Grids by Harry Roberts

Making a Beautiful HTML5 Portfolio | Tutorialzine

In today’s tutorial we will be making a beautiful HTML5 portfolio powered by jQuery and the Quicksand plugin. You can use it to showcase your latest work and it is fully customizable, so potentially you could expand it to do much more.

Build a Neat HTML5 Powered Contact Form | Nettuts+

In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to create a swanky HTML5 AJAX powered contact form. The form will use some of the new HTML5 input elements and

10 HTML Entity Crimes You Really Shouldn’t Commit

It has been over a couple of years since I posted my HTML tag and usability crimes posts, both of which are amongst the most popular articles here on Line25.

5 Little-Known Web Files That Can Enhance Your Website

HTML5 Demos at FOWA – Giorgio Sardo Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs

Thoughts from a Technical Evangelist about the Microsoft Web Platform, HTML5, Internet Explorer 9 and the future of the Web

How To Use Media Queries For Device Targeting | Van SEO Design

15 surefire ways to speed up your site | Feature | .net magazine

Sam Quayle considers new developments, tools and, most importantly, the techniques you can use to improve page loading times and grasp your users’s diminishing attention

Using the Black Box Model to Design Better Websites | Design Shack

Reading an article entitled Using the Black Box Model to Design Better Websites on Design Shack.

Fractal | Email HTML/CSS Validation

HTML5 Cross Browser Polyfills – GitHub

Modernizr – Feature detect HTML5 and CSS3 features, with handy css and javascript hooks so you can progressively enhance to your heart’s content.

Useful HTML5/CSS3 Frameworks | webexpedition18

HTML5 and CSS3 frameworks are becoming more and more popular every day. So if you are a web designer or developer you should certainly look through th

HTML5Pattern

HTML5 Input-Pattern Library

Automatoon- Easy Animation For The Web!

Easy Online Animation

HTML5 Gallery | A showcase of sites using HTML5 markup

A showcase of sites using html5 markup, with twin primary aims to help web designers and developers of how to implement html5 into their sites now, and to showcase to browser makers that there are a large number of sites already implementing the language so it should be supported.

Media Queries | HTML5 Gallery

A showcase of sites using html5 markup, with twin primary aims to help web designers and developers of how to implement html5 into their sites now, and to showcase to browser makers that there are a large number of sites already implementing the language so it should be supported.

HTML5 placeholder stylization with the help of CSS | Splashnology

HTML5 has a wonderful attribute – placeholder (text prompts for input elements)

Mobile-First Responsive Web Design | Brad Frost Web

Mobile-First Responsive Web Design is a combination of philosophies/strategies, and ultimately boils down to a broader application of good ol’ web bes

Yiibu – Lovingly crafted mobile experiences

Lovingly crafted mobile experiences

HTML 5 Outliner

 

Resources

 

ConvertICO.com – Convert .PNG format files to .ICO or .ICO format files to .PNG : Windows Vista compatible icons

Free Online Icons Converter – Convert PNG to ICO and ICO to PNG files : Windows Vista compatible icons

DryIcons.com | Free Icons | Aesthetica Icons List – 128x128px

Preview of the complete icons list of the Aesthetica Icon Set available in 128x128px

Full Library | Typekit

Free Handwriting fonts

free handwriting fonts

Bing Shopping

Enabling consumers to compare features, opinions, and prices simultaneously, Bing Shopping provides cost-effective ways for you to target online shoppers at various points in the purchase funnel.

Font Squirrel | Free Font Daniel by Daniel Midgley

Download and install the free font Daniel by Daniel Midgley as well as test-drive and see a complete character set.

Font Squirrel | Free Font Angelina by Anja Denali

Download and install the free font Angelina by Anja Denali as well as test-drive and see a complete character set.

Font Squirrel | Free Font Serif Beta by Betatype

Download and install the free font Serif Beta by Betatype as well as test-drive and see a complete character set.

Font Squirrel | Free Font New Athena Unicode by American Philological Association

Download and install the free font New Athena Unicode by American Philological Association as well as test-drive and see a complete character set.

Font Squirrel | Free Font Worstveld Sling by Typotheticals

Download and install the free font Worstveld Sling by Typotheticals as well as test-drive and see a complete character set.

MeshMixer

Announcing: SassAndCoffee 0.5 at Thursday Night

Paul Betts’s personal website / blog / what-have-you

Live chat software features and tools

Live chat software by LiveHelpNow is powerful and easy to use live chat system designed to drive sales

Social Media Footer

Basic Home Theater Installation

Futura PT | Typekit

Useful HTML-, CSS- and JavaScript Tools and Libraries – Smashing Magazine

A round-up of time-saving, useful HTML-, CSS- and JavaScript-tools and resources to improve your designing and development skills.

Free Image Templates | Envato Marketplace Wiki

Not all of us our fantastic designers. This can make the process of branding, for example, a code-based item, significantly more difficult. But that’s okay! We

Shopping – ThemeForest

ThemeForest files for download in: Site Templates > Retail > Shopping

Subtle Patterns | High quality patterns for your next web project

Subtle Patterns | High quality patterns for your next web project

resizeMyBrowser

A simple, useful and beautiful browser window resize app for Web designers and developers.

CSS Lint

Free Template: »MODX Boilerplate« [UPDATE] – Novolo Designagentur – MODX & HTML5 Webentwicklung

»MODX Boilerplate« is a free HTML5-template for rapid website development with the MODX Revolution CMF. The template set had been developed for a fast, technically correct setup of a HTML5-frontend. B auf Novolo Designagentur – Cross Media Publishing in München

Useful Resources, Tools and Services for Web Designers – Smashing Magazine

In this post we present some of the useful resources and tools for designers and Web developers.

QuickTag | QR Code and vCard snippets

Email Marketing and Email List Manager | MailChimp

Free email marketing service from MailChimp. Design, send, and track HTML email campaigns with our simple tools. Get a fully functional free account.

DinPattern – Free seamless patterns» Patterns

DinPattern is a free seamless background pattern resource for designers, developers and artists.

Download Dancing Script font. Impallari.com

Free PSD: Loupe: Screenshot Magnifying Thingy | Premium Pixels

Today’s freebie is a set of loupes, you know, those magnifying zoomy things we overlay onto screenshots to show more detail. You know what I mean.

Professional icons

More than 900.000 professional icons for both web and software applications

Ultimate Round Up of Free Photoshop Patterns | Vandelay Design Blog

Photoshop users can save a lot of time and create beautiful designs by using patterns. Photoshop’s presets (like brushes, styles, patterns, custom shapes, and gradients) are highly-powerful tools when used effectively. Whether you are creating your own custom patterns or using pre-made patterns that you have downloaded for free or purchased, having an arsenal of patterns at your disposal will allow you to quickly create high-quality work. In this post we’ll showcase 50 sets of free Photoshop patterns for your own use. You may also be interested in our recent post, Ultimate Collection of Free Photoshop Styles. Charcoal Demask Patterns

Trimage (lossless) image compressor

ImageOptim – a PNG/JPEG/GIF optimizer for Mac OS X

HTML-Ipsum

jQuery google api and other google hosted javascript libraries. – ScriptSrc.net

Get the latest version of the script tag for the Javascript library of your choice.

CopyPasteCharacter.com

Button Maker

Google Web Fonts

Ten Awesome Alternative Free Web Fonts | Onextrapixel – Showcasing Web… – StumbleUpon

FusionCharts v3 – Stunning Charts in Flash & JavaScript (HTML5) for Web & Enterprise

FusionCharts helps you create animated & interactive charts in both Flash & JavaScript (HTML5). It is the industry’s leading enterprise-grade charting component that functions seamlessly on PCs, Macs, iPads, iPhones and a majority of other mobile devices.

JotForm · Easiest Form Builder

First Web Based WYSIWYG Form Builder. Create and publish web forms using your browser. Get responses via E-mail

MacRabbit – Espresso 2 – Kaboom

Ten Awesome Alternative Free Web Fonts | Onextrapixel – Showcasing Web Treats Without A Hitch

Free web fonts such Museo, League Gothic, Droid and Lobster have been around since the dawn of the @font-face revolution. Whilst these are all fantastic typefaces, they are beginning to suffer from over-use.

Massive Compilation of Designer Tools | Webdesigner Depot

Web designers have a wealth of tools available to them, for doing everything from organizing their thoughts about a particular design to debugging the final

Pin My Website – IE9 Site Pinning for your site in seconds

Smooth CoffeeScript

Vectorian : Biggest Vintage Vector Ornaments pack (free pack + full version)

Index – 4ourth Mobile Design Pattern Library

Mobile Bits

Collectives bits of knowledge about design & development for mobile, a pinch/zoom side project.

Free WordPress Themes: 2011 Edition – Smashing Magazine

25 New Free High-Quality Fonts – Smashing Magazine

15 Useful Web Apps for Designers | Tools

There are lots of web apps these days and they are very popular because of time-saving and productivity benefits. Web apps work on almost all platforms and you

Website Analysis and Stats

Website analysis, stats and analytics. Information about site traffic, social media, reports, servers, research, worth, content and more.

Big Spaceship | Labs Blog – HTML5 IDE Roundup: First thoughts on Sencha Animator, Radi, Wallaby, and more

Labs, a Big Spaceship blog, explores ideas, technology and experiments in digital design and development…think coding, Flash, games and more.

Resources for HTML5 and CSS3

NuGet Package of the Week #5 – Debugging ASP.NET MVC applications with Glimpse – Scott Hanselman

Scott Hanselman on Programming, User Experience, The Zen of Computers and Life in General

Font Squirrel | Handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with commercial-use licenses.

Font Squirrel scours the internet in search of FREE, highest-quality, designer-friendly, commercial-use fonts and presents them for easy downloading. We dont have the most, but we do have the best.

32 Handy Google Chrome Extensions for Web Developers | SpyreStudios

Watching the browser wars unfold has been interesting. Mozilla Firefox was possibly the king only a few years ago, whereas now it seems Google Chrome has taken much of their market shares. For those who use Chrome it may have some bugs but ultimately runs much quicker and scales better than Firefox. And while Mozilla has an Extensions gallery, Google has launched an extensions gallery side-by-side with Chrome. In here developers are able to create small browser extensions and tie into 3rd party APIs for some magnificent features. The installation process is simple, efficient, and leaves you begging for more. Web developers should be especially interested in Google Chrome as they strive for perfection in browser testing. Scaling your website between the many browsers today is difficult. Luckily Chrome is one of the better software partners out there, and in celebration I’ve collection 32 extensions specifically targeted towards web developers. Install a few see what you think, and please offer any extensions you’ve personally found in the comments section! Web Clipboard by Google

Map Icons Collection | Google Maps Icons, Map Markers, Free POI Icons, GIS Symbols

Map Icons Collection is a set of more than 600 free icons to use as placemarks for your POI (Point of Interests) locations on your Google Maps or Google Earth

Google Web Fonts

MotionCAPTCHA – Stop Spam, Draw Shapes – Joss Crowcroft

Crisp Splats – Photoshop Brushes | BrushLovers.com

BrushLovers offers the largest and most exclusive collection of free and premium Photoshop brushes for designers.

 

Programming

 

Subspace Blog | Getting rid of null checks in property chains with – but not limited to – AutoMapper and S#arpArchitecture

StyleCop

StyleCop analyzes C# source code to enforce a set of style and consistency rules. It can be run from inside of Visual Studio or integrated into an MSBuild project For more information about Microsoft StyleCop see the StyleCop blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/sourceanalysis.

Kim Hamilton : What does the NeutralResourcesLanguageAttribute do?

NeutralResourcesLanguageAttribute marks the neutral culture for an assembly. That sounds self-referential, but a full description would require another blog post. To avoid getting bogged down, think of neutral culture roughly as the default language.

INotifyPropertyChanged with Unity Interception AOP « Dmitry Shechtman’s Blog

ODAC 11.2.0.2.30 Beta for Entity Framework and LINQ Install Instructions

Install Instructions for the ODAC Beta 11.2.0.2.30 for Entity Framework and LINQ

Adobe ExportPDF

Much more than a simple PDF converter, Acrobat.com is used for online file sharing and storage; collaborating on documents, presentations, tables; and hosting effective online meetings with Adobe ConnectNow web conferencing solution. Try Acrobat.com today.

ASP.NET Compatibility Mode – Wenlong Dong’s Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs

Deploying Orchard to Windows Azure – Orchard Documentation

Profiling your website like a true Ninja

Sam’s Spot – Sam saffron’s web log

A List Apart: Articles: Modern Debugging Tips and Tricks

Active Admin | The administration framework for Ruby on Rails

Chirpy – VS Add In For Handling Js, Css, DotLess, and T4 Files – Home

Mashes, minifies, and validates your javascript, stylesheet, and dotless files. Chirpy can also auto-update T4MVC and other T4 templates.

Goliath

Globalization, Internationalization and Localization in ASP.NET MVC 3, JavaScript and jQuery – Part 1 – Scott Hanselman

Scott Hanselman on Programming, User Experience, The Zen of Computers and Life in General

mvc-mini-profiler – A simple but effective mini-profiler for ASP.NET MVC – Google Project Hosting

Introducing System.Web.Providers – ASP.NET Universal Providers for Session, Membership, Roles and User Profile on SQL Compact and SQL Azure – Scott Hanselman

Scott Hanselman on Programming, User Experience, The Zen of Computers and Life in General

(think) – Django 1.3 vs Rails 3: A not so final showdown

Ruby on Rails Screencasts – RailsCasts

Short Ruby on Rails screencasts containing tips, tricks and tutorials. Great for both novice and experienced web developers.

David Ebbo: Precompile your MVC Razor views using RazorGenerator

Enabling conditional Basic HTTP authentication on a WCF OData service

Hybrid DSP > Products > CUDAfy .NET

High speed digital acquisition and processing on FPGA and GPU

10 ways to improve your programming skills — AntoArts

Exploring CouchDB

Relational databases define a strict structure and provide a rigid way to maintain data for a software application. Apache’s open source CouchDB offers a new method of storing data, in what is referred to as a schema-free document-oriented database model. Instead of the highly structured data storage of a relational model, CouchDB stores data in a semi-structured fashion, using a JavaScript-based view model for generating structured aggregation and report results from these semi-structured documents. CouchDB has been developed from the ground up with Web applications as the primary focus and has its sights on becoming the de-facto database for Web application development.

Glimpse – A client side look at whats going on in your server

Fluent Security : Fluent security configuration for ASP.NET MVC

Things Everyone Should Do: Code Review | Good Math, Bad Math

Derek Slager: A Better .NET Regular Expression Tester

A simple and fast AJAX-powered .NET regular expression tester.

Globalization, Internationalization and Localization in ASP.NET MVC 3, JavaScript and jQuery – Part 1 – Scott Hanselman

Scott Hanselman on Programming, User Experience, The Zen of Computers and Life in General

Glimpse Web Debugger and ASP.NET MVC 3 Route Debugger 2.0

Debugger Canvas

Solver Foundation

ASP.NET MVC 3 and the @helper syntax within Razor – ScottGu’s Blog

ASP.NET, Visual Studio, ASP.NET 2.0, .NET

Rails Installer – Install Ruby on Rails on Windows Painlessly

Task Parallel Library: 6 of n – CodeProject

A look into using the Task Parallel Library.; Author: Sacha Barber; Section: C#; Chapter: Languages

Various Clients and Forms Authentication « Karl On WPF – .Net

David Ebbo: Register your HTTP modules at runtime without config

C#er : IMage: Entity Framework 4.1 Code First, Silverlight, and Shared Models with REST+JSON

Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles

The Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles allows you to deploy multiple sites to a set of Windows Azure Web Role instances and use Web Deploy to deploy your sites in seconds.

 

JQuery/Javascript

 

Superfish – Suckerfish on ‘roids

A demonstration of Superfish, a jQuery plugin by Joel Birch that creates Suckerfish-style dropdown menus with added features.

Demo – Amazon style image and title scroller with jQuery

Amazon style image and title scroller with jQuery

Script Junkie | Building Cross-Platform Apps Using jQuery Mobile

Script Junkie | Building Cross-Platform Apps Using jQuery Mobile

Multiple Tabs and Accordion instances

The most important UI widget for the web

Humane JS

Hacking at 0300 : Understanding jQuery UI widgets: A tutorial

how do you do template binding with “compiled” templates? – KnockoutJS | Google Groups

scottjehl/Respond – GitHub

Respond – A fast & lightweight polyfill for min/max-width CSS3 Media Queries (for IE 6-8, and more)

The-M-Project

The-M-Project is an HTML5 Javascript framework for writing cross-platform mobile apps

diagonalFade : A jQuery plugin

diagonalFade is a jQuery plugin to fade in-and-out items in a container.

jquery – jQueryUI: how can I custom-format the Autocomplete plug-in results? – Stack Overflow

Sammy.js / A Small Web Framework with Class / RESTFul Evented JavaScript

Processing.js v1.2 Released « Processing.js Blog

Processing.js is an open programming language for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions for the web without using Flash or Java applets. Processing.js uses Javascript to draw shapes and manipulate images on the HTML5 Canvas element.

Popcorn.js | The HTML5 Media Framework

Socket.IO: the cross-browser WebSocket for realtime apps.

Grid Navigation Effects with jQuery | Codrops

Today we want to share some neat grid navigation effects using jQuery. In our examples we will show you ten ways how to navigate through a set of thumbnails. We’ll take a look at some of the possibilities and how to apply the effect.

Implementing bookmarklets in JavaScript

andreasgal/pdf.js at master – GitHub

pdf.js – PDF Reader in JavaScript

ricardrobin/Regions.js – GitHub

Regions.js – A polyfill for the Adobe’s CSS3 proposal for Text regions

mckinney/lectric – GitHub

A touch-enabled, hardware-accelerated, slider. It’s electric!

Fundamentals for Great JavaScript and jQuery Development

In this 50 minute live coding demo, Damian will start off with an overview of the JavaScript fundamentals that every jQuery developer should know. Next, he’ll show you some of the features that make jQuery the most popular JavaScript library today.

Caleb Evans | jCanvas

A jQuery plugin for easier manipulation of the HTML5 canvas.

cdn js – the missing cdn

Optimizely Open-Sources Guiders.js, a Library to Help You Guide New Users – The Optimizely Blog

New javascript framework based on #Scriptographer by @juerglehni and @jonathanpuckey #javascript #html5 // @paperjs | CreativeApplications.Net

Created by by Jürg Lehni & Jonathan Puckey, Paper.js is an open source vector graphics scripting framework that runs on top of the HTML5 Canvas.

JavaScript Memory Management | Socialcast Engineering

WOW Slider : jQuery Image Slider & Carousel

WOW Factor for Your Website! Free jQuery Slider. Stunning visual effects and lots of professional templates. Drag-n-drop maker Mac and Windows!

Paper.js — Paper.js

Scriptographer ported to JavaScript and the browser, using HTML5 Canvas.

15 Powerful jQuery Tips and Tricks for Developers | Tutorialzine

In this article we will take a look at 15 jQuery techniques for your effective use of the library. We will start with a few tips about performance and continue with some of the library’s more obscure features.

GMAP3 : A JQUERY PLUGIN TO USE GOOGLE MAPS VERSION 3

10 super useful tools for JavaScript developers | CatsWhoCode.com

Buzz, a Javascript HTML5 Audio library

Make a Fluid Thumbnail Bar with jQuery | Build Internet

Learn how to make a fluid thumbnail bar that pages through the images it contains.

wakanda

An introduction to CoffeeScript – Jon Galloway

Fullscreen Slideshow with HTML5 Audio and jQuery | Codrops

In today’s tutorial we’ll create a fullscreen photo slideshow to illustrate a New York picture series. We will add sounds with the HTML5 audio element in order to give life to the gallery and try to recreate the ambient of this vibrant city.

Zeon.js

Zeon.js, a free online JavaScript code insight editor

leanModal – a JQuery modal plugin that works with your CSS

leanModal – a JQuery modal plugin that works with your CSS

jQuery HTML5 Uploader

JavascriptTips – jslibs – JavaScript language advanced tips and tricks – standalone JavaScript development runtime environment with general purpose native libraries – Google Project Hosting

Cuepoint.js. A plugin for HTML5 video cuepoints and subtitles

Sliding Background Image Menu with jQuery | Codrops

Today we want to share another jQuery menu with you. This menu will have several panels, each one corresponding to a different background image that will show on all panels when we hover over a panel label. Also, a submenu will slide out from the bottom. This menu comes with some configuration possibilities, such as size of the image, the hover effect and custom default states.

Quick Tip: An Introduction to Sammy.js | Nettuts+

You’ve been seeing it for a while now with Google’s Reader, Gmail, and most recently, on Facebook. Probably, you, too, would like to write RESTful evented

CoffeeScript

Script Junkie | Creating Responsive Applications Using jQuery Deferred and Promises

Rafik Salama — Hybrid Binding: DOM Caching with Event Delegation in jQuery

DropKick – a jQuery plugin for beautiful dropdowns

Leaflet – a modern, lightweight JavaScript library for interactive maps by CloudMade – Quick Start Guide

Cool notification messages with CSS3 & Jquery – Red Team Design

The Wall – A Javascript plugin for Mootools

The Wall is a plugin for Mootools javascript framework designed to create walls of infinite dimensions. Its flexibility allows different applications, from infinite wall mode to Coda slider mode. The Wall creates compatible interfaces with the newer browsers and iPhone and iPad mobile devices.

Animated Text and Icon Menu with jQuery | Codrops

Today we want to show you how to create a slick menu with a nice animation feature on hover. The idea is to make some elements slide out, change and animate the background color of the item and then slide the elements back in with a different color.

 

Git

 

Help.GitHub – Set Up Git (Windows)

YUI Theater — Jenny Donnelly: “Introduction to Git” (53 min.) » Yahoo! User Interface Blog (YUIBlog)

Designing GitHub for Mac — Warpspire

Git Cheat Sheet | fournova Blog

 

Node.js

 

Express – node web framework

Hello world to Node.js on Amazon EC2 – fyhao webBlog

This post is all about my first hello world to Node.js runs on Amazon EC2. I will note down the steps on how to get through Amazon EC2, start an instance, and how to download and build Node.js on Amazon EC2, and runs a Hello World Example! This post includes nearly complete steps from how to setup Amazon EC2 and setup Node.js, it is recommende …

NodeCloud – Node.js resources

A collection of Node.js resources

Node.js Step by Step: Blogging Application | Nettuts+

In the previous episode in this session, you were introduced to Node.js by creating a simple web server that displayed the obligatory Hello world text.

socketstream/socketstream – GitHub

socketstream – A phenomenally fast real-time web framework for Node.js

twilson63/express-coffee – GitHub

express-coffee – A Template for NodeJs Application using Express, CoffeeScript, and Coffeekup

Hands-on Node.js book

node.js

 

Productivity

 

Employee feedback, motivation and teamwork software | Rypple

Rypple helps great teams work better together with social software for ongoing recognition, feedback and coaching. Get started for free.

An Introvert Reflects on his First Presentation | Nettuts+

You’re all set to go up in twenty minutes, the organizer tells me. I quickly flash to myself in front of hundreds of people – frozen, and consumed by

Online scheduling and rostering software – GoAssign

Easy to use web-based scheduling and rostering software. Calendar like interface, SMS notifications, teams, unavailability & more.

Online Mind Mapping and Brainstorming app – SpiderScribe

SpiderScribe – free online collaborative mind mapping software for brainstorming and project management

How to Migrate Your Custom Domain’s Email to Google (And Maintain Your Addresses) | danielmiessler.com

Daniel Miessler’s continuing journey to discover and share the interesting and beautiful things in our world for the purpose of increasing happiness and reducing suffering.

Productivity and Continuous Improvement – Measurement (and RescueTime) makes it happen, both Personally and at Work – Scott Hanselman

Scott Hanselman on Programming, User Experience, The Zen of Computers and Life in General

The 5 Ps: Achieving Focus in Any Endeavor | cek.log

Great Daily Tools for Freelancers | Codrops

Designing and developing a web project is difficult enough, but adding project management, invoicing, hosting, file sharing, and staying on task to the mix? That’s exactly what freelancers do though. There are a ton of tools and apps out there designed to help freelancers complete projects and stay organized. Here is a few of my favorite apps and tools that I use on a daily basis.

How to Become a Great Finisher – Heidi Grant Halvorson – Harvard Business Review

Business bloggers at Harvard Business Review discuss a variety of business topics including managing people, innovation, leadership, and more.

Brainstorming Tips and Techniques for Freelancers

Brainstorming is the secret weapon of every freelancer and entrepreneur. It helps us recall everything we know about the subject and any related ideas to it.

Happy 5th Birthday, TED Talks: 5 All-Time Favorite Talks | Brain Pickings

Curating eclectic interestingness from culture’s collective brain

Conference organiser’s handbook

The Secrets of Effective Technical Talks: How to Explain Tech without Tucking Them In! | Tech·Ed North America 2010 | Channel 9

SIA334 One of the most essential professional skills in any organization is communication: you’ve got to be as successful in talking to the carbon units as you are in talking to the silicon units, or even your greatest ideas will fall on deaf ears. (At least, that’s the case until the silicon units start controlling salaries and budgets.) The sad fact, though, is that most of us hate the idea of presenting ideas and concepts, whether in giving a short training session on a new piece of software or in pitching a new IT project to the boss. People fear public speaking more than death, some authorities claim and that may be true, but that fear is easily fixed — just learn twelve steps to effective presentation, and you’ll find that giving talks can be a whole lot of fun. Today’s tough economic times have led many of us to wonder what skills we’ll need to stay in IT over the next five, ten, or twenty years; come to this talk to improve, enhance, and polish what may well be the most important of those skills. Join popular twenty-five-year veteran techie presenter Mark Minasi and techie rock star Mark Russinovich, both of whose talks regularly rank in the top ten of Tech·Ed talks, as they explain The Twelve Tips To Topnotch Technical Talks in this fast-paced, entertaining and informative explanation of, well, how to give an explanation!

The Pomodoro Technique®

The time management technique created by Francesco Cirillo for a more productive way to work and study.

 

Testing Frameworks

 

Selenium web application testing system

Introducing Usaura, the Fastest Way to Run Click Tests

Tips and insights into good design and usability

 

Turner

 

AMPT Blog

Training Projects – Google Docs

Home – Report Manager

The Future: Native XAML

Interesting read regarding a post from yesterday about what Telerik — third party component library company (Stephen Forte is the Chief Strategy Officer at Telerik) thinks about the future of software development.

Executive Summary quotes for those that can’t be bothered to read the entire article:

I think that all of the recent focus on HTML5+JS by Microsoft is to hook the non-Microsoft developers who know nothing about Silverlight or .NET on the Windows 8 Tablet and get them building apps to compete against Android and iOS. I believe that what will evolve is that for the developer ecosystem is that HTML5+JS will primarily be used for building “apps” on the Tablet, but not for “real” line of business applications on the Web, “native” Windows, and XBox.

[…]

If the blog about the Native XAML and DirectUI/Jupiter project is true, then re-org of the XAML team makes complete sense. In case you missed the leaked news, the XAML runtime team at Microsoft is moving to join the Windows team, the XAML runtime team for Windows Phone 7, Xbox, and browser plug-ins is moving to the Windows Phone 7 team, and the XAML tools team will remain in the Microsoft developer tools division.

To me, this looks like Microsoft doubling down on its XAML strategy, not abandoning it. By putting the XAML runtime team under Windows, Microsoft is making XAML part of the core operating system. This is huge. Anything included as part of the Core OS is treated as royalty inside of Microsoft. It also means that any XAML based application (either in WPF or Silverlight) will run natively as part of Windows, opening up the door to even faster performance.

[…]

I have a feeling that Microsoft will leverage the Silverlight brand when releasing “Jupiter”. I expect to see one native XAML runtime and development environment ship as part of Windows 8, effectively merging WPF and Silverlight.

I don’t see Silverlight as being dead, but rather reborn bigger and better. Instead of being its funeral, the Build Conference will be Silverlight and XAML’s graduation party.

At Telerik, we are also going to double down on our XAML strategy.

http://dotnet.dzone.com/news/silverlight-dead-long-live

ReSharper 6 released

The newest release of ReSharper is available and I have put on the DevTools share here:

\\isgfile02\devtools\Visual Studio 2010\AddIns\ReSharperSetup.6.0.2202.688.msi

This contains support for MVC Razor, HTML5, JavaScript and CSS 3.

Details are here:

http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/whatsnew/

You can upgrade now with a 30 day trial.  I will try to get approval for upgrades when we return after the holiday.

The ResetSettings Switch

This rules.

“Visual Studio supports lots of switches when you start it up. One of these is the /ResetSettings switch. When used by itself, it will reset Visual Studio to the default settings for the settings you initially chose during install. That’s nice but there is an even better option that can be particularly useful for folks who work on a project on different computer (i.e. home and office).”

Read on…

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/zainnab/archive/2010/11/05/the-resetsettings-switch-vstipenv0047.aspx

-Jason

Web Standards Update for VS 2010 SP1

Here’s an article referring to a ‘rogue’ team which has allegedly improved the experience of developing on open web standards in VS 2010.

You can grab the bits here.

Enjoy,

-Tom

Devs on Twitter

A number of devs are now on Twitter if you care to follow us, if you want to communicate just say something or I was thinking we can use #turnerampt as a hash if you just wanted to follow that and not all of the devs.

Current twitter usernames:

Darius Riggins: driggsx
Nizar Jalal: nizarjalal
John Ritsema: jritsema
Stephanie Barulic: stephbarulic
Eric Jacobson: ericcjacobson
Larry Wanzer: larrywanzer
Jacklyn Burgan: playfulpixel
Rob Cannon: robcannon
Tripp Blunschi: trippblunschi