4 Online Handbooks for Web Designers & Developers
Great resource lists for designer and developers.
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14 Must-read Web Design Interviews
romekg 
via designinterviews.com
"Below is the list of 14 interviews with web design and development experts. The interviews are nicely confined, and are themselves informative and... more »
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The Showcase of Brilliant Pattern Designs
A showcase of different examples using stunning pattern designs, just open your eyes and watch out for the next pattern.
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Should you test your web developers before employing them?
These past few weeks, I’ve been doing some work for a new client. Prior to getting the gig, I did the all the usual things: sent my prospective email,... more »
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Cilk Wins Most Influential Programming Language Design and Implementation Award
The PLDI paper "Implementation of the Cilk-5 Multithreaded Language" introduced an efficient form of thread-local deques to control scheduling of... more »
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Good Design is not Subjective
In case you haven’t guessed by my recent flurry of posts, I’ve been engaged in some debates in the past few days about design philosophies and why... more »
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Will you need a JavaScript framework on your next project?
One of the pitfalls of using a JavaScript framework, especially among beginners, is the ability to quickly lose sight of what is specific to the... more »
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Why Learning F# Is So Difficult
My third installment in the Learning F# Series is coming out in the next day or two. While I was writing it, I had some time to reflect on why... more »
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Why Programming Is Less Rewarding Than Designing
Why does programming feel so much less rewarding than designing? Why can't people see the hard work we have to do, and look beyond the shiny colorful... more »
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Cloud-Oriented Architecture (COA)
With all the hype this year about cloud computing and things like Amazon EC2/S3 as well as Google App Engine and Bigtable, you can feel it coming.... more »
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Practical Concurrency Patterns: Immutability (Freezables)
Another very simple pattern builds on the foundation of the Safe-Unsafe Cache pattern. What is the easiest way to protect data from multi-threaded... more »
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Irresistible Websites Part Two: Playful Sites
When it comes to web style, playful is very, very popular. Cartoonish vector landscapes, cuter-than-cute site mascots and retro typography are popping... more »
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Ylastic is now live!
An intuitive and powerful user interface for managing S3, EC2, SQS and SimpleDB, along with monitoring, alerts, reporting, and other goodies. If you... more »
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Every time I use the iPhone App Store, a little piece of my soul dies.
I don't think I've ever been as conflicted about something as I am about the iTunes App Store. There are so many intersections at which it is both the... more »
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Dzone.com and link sharing - Means or Ends ?
Is dzone much more than digg for developers ?
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Inversion of Control is NOT about testability
Many times, I've heard that the best thing about IoC is that it enables testability. When dependencies are injected into a class, it's easy to test... more »
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Curry for dummies
Functional programming concepts aren’t that hard but sometimes a little abstract. In this post I’ll try to demystify the concept of currying, or - in... more »
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Continuous integration improved with task branches
how to improve the continuous integration model extending the use of version control's branches.
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Behold, the 64 TB of Flash “Tower of Power”
Want to be the envy of every digital animator and movie producer in a thirty mile radius? At the Siggraph convention in Los Angeles, Texas Memory... more »
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3 Things Multicore Programmers Need
Summary of conversations with ~50 software organizations around the multicore programming challenges, and key criteria for a possible solution.
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Beware of the so called "Senior PHP Developers"
A guide to the developers and recruiters on how to avoid so called "Senior PHP developers".
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How JavaScript is quietly taking over the world
"The fact is that JavaScript, which was hurriedly released around 1995, is now more prevalent than you might imagine. And equally importantly, it is... more »
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Gartner avoids OSS content management systems
I received a copy of the Gartner report on the status of the web content management system market. I am always skeptical of such reports.Gartner did... more »
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SQL For Developers - 9 Reasons to bother
If you are a developer like I am, you’ve probably gotten by with pretty simple SQL for quite a while. In fact, my experience has been that developers... more »
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The Next Phase of the Internet
bloid via artima.com
First there was the Internet, and then came the possibility of putting up web pages. People started making pages containing lists of other pages that... more »
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