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A look at web sites 10 years ago, and how the internet dealt with 9/11

Examples of well designed forms, best practices and examples

An infographic overview of how Search Engine Optimization works

Heat map visualization with jquery. Pretty cool, not sure how useful it is at this point.

Related: How to make the Opera logo entirely with CSS: http://desandro.com/articles/opera-logo-css/

In-depth article about how javascript works and compares to Dart.

Dart Hello World = 17259 lines https://gist.github.com/1277224

Test your knowledge of HTML5 with this (beginner level) quiz.

So you have seen all the cool stuff WebGL can do, how do you do it? Well, turns out it is not too hard with Three.js. This short presentation shows how to do cool things with WebGL.

How to use TortoiseMerge as your merge and compare tool in Visual Studio 2010. (Jon Gilbert shared it with me a while back)

Some red flags to look for when hiring UX designers

Presentation on how Google's self-driving car works.

Quicktip - Enabling godmode in Windows 8. Useful if you mess around with your system settings a bunch.

Good article on how to improve productivity.

A forum post asking on ways to improve coding skills.

Working with people far smarter than myself Always listening to what others have to say, regardless if they're junior, intermediate, senior or guru. job title doesn't mean anything. Learning other frameworks/languages, and seeing how they do things, and compare that to stuff that I already know Reading about patterns, best practices, and then examining my old stuff and applying those patterns where necessary Pair programming Add Sticky Note | Remove Deciding TO be a 'Jack-of-all-Trades' never stop learning. Read code written by different people. Write documentation for code written by other people.

In less than a week, we'll be in 2012. I know it's a cliché, but where has the year gone? Naturally, we're now at the time of year when folks set goals for the new year. While you might have some goals for your "real" life, how about a few resolutions for your developer life?

How to write modular JavaScript apps for desktop and mobile A work-in-progress by Addy Osmani released for free under a CC-license. My extended thanks to these members of the community for their tweaks and contributions. In this mini-book, I'll be covering a complete run-down of Backbone.js; including models, views, collections and routers.

A case study in how much one piece pf music can affect the mood of a scene and even an entire film.

Quick useful tip: Google's changed the way searching works.