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QUOTE: A complex system that works is invariably 
Jason via Signal vs. Noise on Fri, 21 Nov. 2008
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.
—John Gall
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Old Skool Webdesigners Rejoice: Tables are BACK!
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten via The Next Web on Wed, 22 Oct. 2008
I used to teach HTML. My favorite part of the workshop was always explaining tables. They seemed so incredibly difficult until you understood their logic. Then it would all become clear. Loved the look on peoples faces when they (hand coded) their first complex Table Layout.
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CrunchBadge
Kent Brewster via Brewster's Field Guide to on Mon, 13 Oct. 2008
Here's a single-line JavaScript include that will check all the links on your page for pointers to CrunchBase, heat 'em up, and pop up a badge full of lovely explanatory data when your reader mouses over and holds for a quarter-second.
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://kentbrewster.com/crunchbadge/crunchb
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Active Record tips and tricks
pratik via has_many :bugs, :through => on Mon, 15 Sep. 2008
Just a small collection of tips/tricks which I use a lot ( or try to ), that others might find helpful.
concerned_with
In most of the Rails applications that I work with, the primary model ( User model for example ) ends up being at least 1000 lines long. Thanks to Rick’s quick/awesome
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Core CSS Part I Reference
Molly via molly.com on Sat, 06 Sep. 2008
Along with the good folks at DZone, I’ve been working on a series of reference cards. Refcardz are “cheat sheets” that offer quick but key aspects of various languages, techniques and me
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Shoe Circus
John Gruber via Daring Fireball on Fri, 05 Sep. 2008
The first Jerry Seinfeld/Bill Gates commercial for Microsoft. Not a bad skit, but I’m not sure how this does anything for the Microsoft brand. Makes Gates seem cool, though.
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How to manage long breaks in your software side projects
Ryan via Signal vs. Noise on Tue, 02 Sep. 2008
Pablo Corral wrote me an email after I posted this tweet about managing on-again-off-again side projects.
I’m very curious about how to use Backpack to have a better experience on braindumps for side projects.
I switch a lot, and my side project sometimes is off for many days, and some weeks. Can you exp
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Google to Offer its Own Browser: Chrome
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Mon, 01 Sep. 2008
Google watchdog Phillip Lessen has scanned and posted a printed comic he says he received in the mail from Google today describing the company's forthcoming open source browser Ch
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When To Use Magazine-Style Themes For Blogs?
Steven Snell via Smashing Magazine on Thu, 28 Aug. 2008
By Steven Snell
When designing a custom theme or deciding on an already-existing theme, bloggers have a lot of factors to consider and there is no shortage of options, particularly for WordPress users. A growing number of blogs are moving away from traditional blog layouts in favor of magazine-style themes; however, the layout and presentation of content has a
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Information Architecture Deliverables: Page Description Diagrams
Tom Watson via blueflavor.com: Latest blog en on Thu, 28 Aug. 2008
In the second installment of my Information Architecture Deliverables series, I’m going to talk about one of my favorite (and one of the most tricky) deliverables: the page description diagram. In case you’re not familiar, a page description diagram is a text-based list that explains the importance of content that appears on various pages of a website. Here’s
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Information Architecture Deliverables: Page Description Diagrams
Tom Watson via blueflavor.com: Latest blog en on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
In the second installment of my Information Architecture Deliverables series, I’m going to talk about one of my favorite (and one of the most tricky) deliverables: the page description diagram. In case you’re not familiar, a page description diagram is a text-based list that explains the importance of content that appears on various pages of a website. Here’s
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Building Modern Web Apps? Better Have A Deep Competency in Web 2.0, Open APIs, Widgets, Social Apps, and Much More
Dion Hinchcliffe via Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 on Mon, 25 Aug. 2008
The Web has an interesting property that those building Web applications and online businesses usually encounter soon after they first launch: It has its own unique and unforgiving rules for success and failure. Appreciating them requires a certain level of understanding of the intrinsic nature of the Web and how it works. Actually leveraging those rules requir
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Last Place at the Olympics
(unknown author) via BuzzFeed - Latest on Sun, 24 Aug. 2008
SPORTS BUZZ – A
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Game Sites Design Survey: Examples and Current Practices
Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennart via Smashing Magazine on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
Written by Youri Souiah
Game websites are a little bit of a mystery. You won’t find them in the popular CSS-showcases since they are seldom fully CSS-based; however, they also rarely show up in sites that collect best Flash sites. The FWA, for example, has added only one game site this year. This is odd, because there are
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Verisign’s Personal Identity Portal Is Half Way To Password Bliss
Michael Arrington via www.techcrunch.com on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
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Interesting but proprietary
Verisign's new Personal Identity Portal (PIP from now on) isn't the sexiest application out there to help you manage passwords. But it has ...
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10 Promising Web Platforms - ReadWriteWeb
Richard MacManus via www.readwriteweb.com on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
In this post we review 10 promising developer platforms for the Web. We're not talking about the obvious ones either, like Facebook, iPhone, OpenSocial or even Twitter. Those ...
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Del.izzy Does What Del.icio.us Won’t: Search The Full Text Of Your Bookmarks
Erick Schonfeld via TechCrunch on Mon, 18 Aug. 2008
When you search your bookmarks on del.icio.us, all you are searching is the tags, titles, and descriptions. If you want to search the full text of the underlying bookmarked pages themselves, you have to go to
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Getting a JavaScript stracktrace in any browser
Dion Almaer via Ajaxian » Front Page on Mon, 18 Aug. 2008
Eric Wendelin has posted on getting a JavaScript stack trace no matter that the browser.
With Firebug you can call console.trace() but what about the rest?
Luke Smith took Eric's work and added to it, ending up with:
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Incentivize Me
Tiffani Jones via blueflavor.com: Latest blog en on Tue, 12 Aug. 2008
When it comes to keeping your employees motivated, there are a variety of strategies companies rely on to help them do their dirty work. Since I’m always curious about what makes people tick (and since it’s kind of my job to figure it out), lately I’ve been calling on my friends to help me learn.
Despite working in extremely dissimilar fields, my friends’ answers to the questi
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Gears Best Practices
Brad Neuberg via Gears API Blog on Wed, 06 Aug. 2008
Posted by Brad Neuberg, Google Developer ProgramsWe are constantly asked what are best practices when working with Gears. For example, what's the best way to work with the local database for performance and reliability? What are good architectures for syncing and offline applications? We've just updated the Gears Developer FA
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