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TIOBE Programming Community Index The TIOBE Programming Community index is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month.

The Great Prosperity vs The Great Regression (via Opinion – NYTimes.com )

Front-end Code Standards & Best Practices | Isobar North America This document contains guidelines for web applications built by the Creative Technology (front end engineering) practice of Isobar US. (…) This document’s primary motivation is two- fold: 1) code consistency and 2) best practices.

HTML5 Boilerplate – A rock-solid default template for HTML5 awesome. HTML5 Boilerplate is the professional badass’s base HTML/CSS/JS template for a fast, robust and future-proof site. After more than three years in iterative development, you get the best of the best practices baked in: cross-browser normalization, performance optimizations, even optional features like cross-domain Ajax and Flash. A starter apache .htaccess config file hooks you the eff up with caching rules and preps your site to serve HTML5 video, use @font-face, and get your gzip zipple on....

OpenClipArt Openclipart is the largest collaboration community that create, share and remix cliparts. All cliparts are released to the Public Domain so they can be freely used in any project for free.

Effective Projects, Efficient Maintenance. Erik

Notes About Notes: Making Better Notes This site collects ideas about making, analyzing, organizing, and sharing notes.

That’s good that you won a lot of trophies, it’s nice, but you know what? After I sell a bunch of records, I take all the platinum ones off the walls and pretend I haven’t sold a damn one and I’ve got to go do it all again. Lady Gaga (as a guest judge on the American edition of “So You Think You Can Dance”, Season 8 Episode 18)

… innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem. It’s ad hoc meetings of six people called by someone who thinks he has figured out the coolest new thing ever and who wants to know what other people think of his idea....

I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next. Steve Jobs (NBC Nightly News, May 2006)