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When people ask me for advice on blogging, I always respond with yet another form of the same advice: pick a schedule you can live with, and stick to it.

Some interesting stuff on StumbleUpon.

Some personal observations, reasons I probably would click away, not hire someone, not call back.

"Make an ugly web address much nicer". I think I'm in love.

Don't ask.

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IMAGES is a free tool that allows you to easily share and mark-up graphic designs, pictures, and photos. Invite team members, managers, clients, and consultants to add and reply to comments, chat and chalk up your images.

For Each Word You Get Right, We Donate 10 Grains of Rice through the United Nations to Help End World Hunger

A free cross browser tool that lets you test selectors with any web page. Selectors, particularly complex ones can be difficult to get exactly right - MRI lets you experiment with them on any web page (local or online, static or dynamic).

Crowdsourcing ideas, business, opinions & more...

Allows you to track and visualize your fitness progress and goals.

A very simple web forum, designed to make it really easy to add a discussion forum to a website.

A hosted Subversion system, making it easy for anyone to setup, browse, track, and manage Subversion repositories [...] has built-in integration with your favorite tools such as Basecamp, FogBugz, and Lighthouse.

Unobtrusive conversion of standard markup into rich media content

3D Mailbox Trailer.

I’m convinced this must be some sort of elaborate practical joke.

Not sure why Level 1 is a “Free download” but Level 2 is a “Risk-free download”. How much risk is attached to Level 1?

PPK has embarked recently on a project to create a professional organization for frontend engineers in his native Holland. The organization is called “Fronteers” (frontend engineers)

Poor article but some potentially useful resources.

This tutorial takes a practical, example-based approach to implementing [Yahoo HPW] rules. It's targeted towards web developers with a small budget, who are most likely using shared hosting.

The All-New Screen Recorder for OS X

In this crazy business environment, marketing is ready to be reinvented. No one is sure to who is taking the lead to drive this change.

The music industry is evolving, and major labels are starting to develop new strategies to help adapt to the current DIY climate.

Government websites may be stripped of their ‘gov.uk’ domain names if they fail to meet tough new standards of accessibility to web users with disabilities, according to confidential draft proposals

Despite waves of consolidation across the ad-agency business, there remains a healthy bunch of independent digital shops doing everything from search optimization to building web interfaces to simply doing damn good creative.

Bob Truby’s Brand Name Pencils

“Let me share with you my vision. As both an art teacher and a pencil collector, I desire this site to be a visual encounter with the incredibly diverse world of brand name pencils. I hope you will be amazed at the sheer number of pencil brands once produced in the USA and abroad. Sadly those days are over and the craftsmanship, skill and pride once put into the ordinary pencil is but a thing of the past.”

An industrial strength elegant easy to use fully featured shopping cart application suitable for selling your products, services, and or fees online.

» Radiohead: 01 and 10 :: Puddlegum ::

Consider that In Rainbows was meant to complement OK Computer, musically, lyrically, and in structure. We found that the two albums can be knit together beautifully. By combining the tracks to form one playlist, 01 and 10, we have a remarkable listening experience.

URL design is arguably one of the most important areas of website developement. Not only do URLs generally have huge visual priority in web browsers but they’re also shown on search result listings and get used for matching search terms.

If you're considering a mixed Mac/PC home or office, here's a primer on how the two systems inter-operate (and the few instances when they don't.)

Install the latest versions of your current applications (many are rolling out Leopard updates), clean up your hard drive, uninstall unneeded software, run the Apple hardware test and repair your hard drive using Disk Utility.

A cross-platform viewer that downloads all revisions of a file and lets you scroll through them by dragging a slider.

A tiny jQuery extension that logs the current jQuery selection to the firebug console.

Useful comments on the last100 "Five ways the music industry can prevent its own demise." article

I'm looking for music artists (individuals or bands) who are selling their own music via digital downloads (with some specific qualifications)

A heuristic approach to version control, unit testing, and app deployment.

Can we encourage and direct desire in a way that satisfies people's desire to consume (and therefore allows businesses to charge them money for something and keep the wheels of capitalism turning) without creating endless torrents of new stuff.

"When building a web site with HTTPS pages, one of the annoying tasks is to ensure that those pages make no references to HTTP resources. If they do, then Internet Explorer will pop up alarming messages about mixing secure and insecure content". Great tip

"An open source PHP-based online shopping cart system." Out-of-the-box HTML doesn't look that nice.

Site5 hosting customer wiki.

Provides information on all current TV and radio programmes across the BBC.

Version 3.5 isn't a minor upgrade - it offers a ton of new features, improvements and fixes. It could easily have been called TopStyle 4.0

WWF-UK: Get on Board

“We’re going to construct a giant paper boat and giant paper plane and deliver them to parliament. They will be covered in the names of the people who have pledged their support for our call for a strong, effective Climate Change Bill.”

Supports pause-on-hover, auto-stop, auto-fit, before/after callbacks, click triggers and many transition effects. It also supports, but does not require, the Metadata Plugin and the Easing Plugin.

Is it Christmas?

Traditional version control helps you backup, track and synchronize files. Distributed version control makes it easy to share changes. Done right, you can get the best of both worlds: simple merging and centralized releases.

"Most Subversion developers are well aware of the cool new ground being broken by DVCS, and there’s already a lot of discussion out there to “evolve” Subversion 2.0 in those directions. However, [...] the challenge before us is to keep Subversion si

The first data ever collected on the business of web design and development as practiced in the U.S. and worldwide.