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Common Web Design Mistakes
Mark Smith with MDS Solutions presents a list of stuff you should NOT do when designing your website.
Ext JS 3.0 RC1.1 brings a host of new features to the table
Weblenium gives a quick overview of the new features found in Ext JS 3.0 RC1.1.
Mozilla Brings Webapps to the Desktop, Challenges AIR, Silverlight
Scott [...]

The Tweet to Beat: Paying $3 Per Twitter Follower
Want to win a round trip airline ticket to anywhere in the world!? How about a brand-spankin new MacBook Pro? Well Tim Ferris is running a fund raiser / giveaway in which you can win one of these prizes. Head on over to check it out!
Dangerous designs
Vijay [...]

Recession is the Mother of Tech Invention
Pete Cashmore at Mashable.com provides a somewhat positive spin on the recent financial crisis. Could this be an opportunity for innovation?
101 CSS Resources to Add to Your Toolbelt of Awesomeness
Jason Barthome has published a very comprehensive list of CSS related links. There’s sure to be something of use in [...]

10 Principles of the PHP Masters
Great article from Glen Stansberry on the Nettuts blog about PHP development.
10 Useful articles about Database design
Antonio Lupetti has published a nice list of database design articles.
Netflix to Roll Out API Tomorrow
Thanks to Mashable for the heads up on a new API being offered from Netflix. This could be cool.
How [...]

patterns & practices Performance Engineering
J.D. Meier on software engineering patterns and best practices with a focus on performance.
40+ Beautiful Icon Sets Hand-picked from deviantART- Part 2
The title says it all!
Google shows off final Android handset
Get a look at the new cell phone from Google as shown in Europe this week.
WordPress Developer’s Toolbox
This post provides all [...]

Build Your First Facebook App
Joe Casabona over at NetTuts gives a really easy to follow tutorial on creating your first Facebook application.
Step 1) Build Facebook App, Step 2) ?, Step 3) Profit!
Facebook Platform: The Fanfare Revisited
Since we’re on the subject of Facebook Apps, Alex Iskold has an excellent article on the Facebook platform. If you [...]

Top 10 Concepts That Every Software Engineer Should Know
This is a very well constructed article on some basic principles of software engineering; very well worth your time to read. Brought to you by none other than Alex Iskold.
Screencasting: How To Start, Tools and Guidelines
Smashing Magazine has a great article to help you get started with [...]

Build Seamless, Fully Functional Forms with No Coding
Collis Ta’eed provides and excellent tutorial on using the Wufoo site to generate web forms with no coding. There are lots of pictures and code samples.
JDK 6 Update 7: Java VisualVM Included
Geertjan Wielenga gives an honest review of the latest Java Development Kit’s new features, including a visual [...]

Books Giveaway: Comment and Win!
That’s right… Smashing Magazine is giving away books on web design and programming. All you have to do is comment on the post and you could win one of eight books.
A beginner’s mootools – create draggable and resizable elements
Nice beginners tutorial on creating dragable and resizable elements on a web page.
deviantART: [...]

Google Shell Online – goosh.org
Any *nix lovers (and Google lovers) should definitely check this site out. It’s basically a shell interface to Google… on a web page. Awesome!
Not An OS
Tim Bray vents his frustration about people calling the internet the “Web OS” and generally comparing the internet to an operating system. Preach on, brotha!
Learning ActionScript [...]