AndySowards.com :: Web Development Nerdy Daily Links For 11/26/2008

AndySowards.com has had a great week! I wish you all a happy Thanksgiving tomorrow, and remember to be thankful for everything that you have, Especially Daily Nerdy Resources! Enjoy this list of web developer/designer resources, and remember, Thanksgiving is TOMORROW!! Bless you all.

Laugh of the Day

• Crap in a Box!
  Best Web Design ever. LOL JK
  (tags: design web graphic graphicdesign logo humor funny fun)

Web 2.0 News

• Technorati Lays Off Six, Cuts Pay For Rest
  Economy Hurts Technorati
• YouTube Blog
  Youtube is Getting a Redesign! Bigger is Better?
  (tags: web blog videos youtube Video to ping.fm)

Web Developer Thanksgiving List.

• 15 Things Every Web Developers Should Be Thankful For
  This post saved me a ton of time incase anyone asks me what I am thankful for, I can just print this off and hand it out! Great things to be thankful for!

Freebies!

• Function Web Design & Development [ Blog ] » Free Icons: Function Icon Set, 128 Completely Free Icons
  Giant collection of Free Icons! Nice ones!
  (tags: design web2.0 images recursos downloads download webdev web graphics diseño freebies stock graphicdesign free Resources webdesign inspiration photoshop art development blog graphic freeware icons iconos icones set png icon resource)
• Girl Avatars: Free PSD Vector Icon Set | Freebies | Smashing Magazine
  Cool Avatar PSD Vector Icon set, If you are a GIRL! Seriously, its for girls.

Holiday Tutorials

• 10 Fantastic Christmas Inspired Tutorials | My Ink Blog
  Nice Roundup of Christmas Tutorials!

Mac News

• Apple Bends to Studios, Adds Copyright Protection to MacBooks | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
  Apple Sneakily adds Copyright Protection to MacBooks! How dare they!
  (tags: download authority irc tech itunes mac podcast copyright wired Apple movies interoperability macbook hdcp drm bad)

Programming Stuff

• Rewriting Twitter for web best practices
  Things to think about when building large scale sites, Totally forgot about the need for multiple languages
  (tags: design twitter interesting internet standards web article webdesign performance webstandards articles web-design development tools programming interface usability web2.0 ui frontend appengine 2read)

Gaming

• Is the video game industry recession-proof? | Gaming and Culture – CNET News
  Videogame Industry Recession Proof? I think so.
  (tags: article Video culture Game economy)

Gadget News

• Gadget Blogger Interview: Geeky-Gadgets.com | GearCrave | The Mens Buying Guide for Gadgets
  Good insight, Interview with Geeky Gadget Blogger!

Google Stuff

• My Job Interview at Google – good coders code, great reuse
  A Look inside A Google Job Interview, Great Post, Always wondered what it was like to apply at Google 🙂
  (tags: development google process coding interviews job work blog reference interesting programming career programmer engineering jobs questions interview blogs books code it business interviewing recruitment technical recruiting cs algorithm coders)

Web Developer/Designer Inspiration

• 42 Awesome Business Card Designs (With Links to 100s More) | [Re]Encoded.com
  More CRAZY and Creative Business Cards!!
  (tags: design blogs funny branding businesscard tarjetas interesting graphicdesign graphic marketing inspiration blog graphics reference business art cool images gallery ideas businesscards advertising article print card creativity cards creative awesome fun)
• Web Design: Yellow Sites | Abduzeedo – design inspiration & tutorials
  Some really nice Yellow Inspirational Web Design!
  (tags: webdesign inspiration)
• Awesome Mascotte Designs part 1 – +15 designs
  Great examples of Mascot Designs!
• 40 Wallpapers Loaded With Color | Webdesigner Depot
  Amazingly colorful Desktop wallpapers!
  (tags: design roundups web colour inspiration wallpapers list art fondos graphic wallpaper color)
• Web Development/Design Nerdy Daily Links For 11/25/2008 – Design Float
  Web Development/Design Nerdy Daily Links For 11/25/2008 – Get your Mind ready for Thanksgiving with a healthy helping of Nerdy Links! Preparing you for thanksgiving this week ;)! Go get the resources!!
  (tags: ping.fm web design development resources dev)
• Inspiration: Fabien Barral | Abduzeedo – design inspiration & tutorials
  Great Designer Inspiration from Abduzeedo and Fabien Barral
• Billboard Top 40 Design Showcase | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine
  Designs of the sites who's owner is on the Billboard Top 40
  (tags: design showcase web ideas webdesign smashing inspiration websites list music blogging writing graphic artist article 40 band billboard)
• 20+ Photoshop Painted Inspiration and Brush Resources – PSDTUTS
  Great collection of Painted and Brushed Inspirations!

jQuery Stuff

• jQuery Ajax uploader plugin (with progress bar!) «
  Nice Ajax Uploader plugin for jQuery!
  (tags: web 2008 ping.fm coding tips mvc ui programming upload javascript jQuery plugin AJAX progressbar asp.net fileupload aspnetmvc)
• The Breakdown For Combining Selectables And Draggables Using jQuery UI | My playground – Design/Development Blog of Ryan Coughlin
  Breakdown for Understanding Selectables and Draggables with jQuery, Very Useful!
  (tags: AJAX jQuery ui)

Web Developer/Designer Christmas Wish!

• Darren Jones » All I want for christmas is…
  Tell Darren what you want for Christmas, The Geekier the Better!

Web Tools

• Textflow: Collaborative Editing Made Easy – ReadWriteWeb
  Awesome Collaborative Editor! Textflow!
  (tags: tool editors article innovation collaboration to_read writing editing enterprise2.0 collaborative journalism editor)

My PSD 2 HTML Contest Winners!

• UPDATED! Winners of Blog Contest: 417$ worth of PSD to XHTML/CSS Conversions for FREE! from Fe Coding | AndySowards.com :: Professional Web Design, Development, Programming, Hacks, Downloads, Math and being a Web 2.0 Hipster?
  This contest is now over! Congratulations to the winners! The winners are: Steve B Brian Yerkes Steve Tolley Thanks to all who participated!
  (tags: ping.fm code coding contest conversion design designer free freebies html pages photoshop psd psd2html rules contests)

WordPress/Blogging Tips

• 8 Common Sense Tips For Writing Clean WordPress Blog Posts | Custom WordPress Theme Design
  Some quick tips for writing Clean WordPress Blog posts
  (tags: tips blog blogging wordpress wordpress_themes wp editor how-to bookmark tip wordpress_tips)

Isometrics Tutorial

• Working with Orthographic Projections and Basic Isometrics – VECTORTUTS
  Great Tutorial for Designers that Deal with Isometrics
  (tags: illustrator vector)