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Links for August 20th
- Beyond City Limits – By Parag Khanna | Foreign Policy
- "Cities — not so-called failed states like Afghanistan and Somalia — are the true daily test of whether we can build a better future or are heading toward a dystopian nightmare."
Links for August 19th
- the best part of wanting to change the world « eugene cho
- "The best part of wanting to change the world…is that you get changed in the process." This is a powerful read for me, especially since I can relate to parts of it and hope to relate to other parts of it.
Links for August 15th
- RGBa & HSLa CSS Generator for Internet Explorer | Journal | Kimili
- This generates IE-specific CSS filters (that you can load with a conditional comment) to cause IE to support RGBa color, which is one of my favorite parts of CSS3.
Links for August 13th
- jQuery Mobile | jQuery Mobile
- "A unified user interface system across all popular mobile device platforms, built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI foundation."
Links for August 3rd
- A List Apart: Articles: No One Nos: Learning to Say No to Bad Ideas
- "Each one of us brings an area of specialization to our projects, and it is our responsibility to exhibit that expertise. If you don’t know anything that no one else on your team knows, then it’s probably time to walk away. But if you do, it is your duty to assert that capability and share your knowledge for the betterment of the final product."
Links for July 28th
- Derek Powazek – Thoughts on Designing for iPad
- Some early thoughts from leading the design team on an iPad app. I think it's important for us to gather these thoughts and learn from them as this environment begins fruition.
- Daring Fireball: An Improved Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs
- A solid regular expression for URL matching. Invaluable to have around, easy to forget about.
- RFC (2)822 & 3696 Email Address Parser in PHP
- A pattern for validating email addresses in PHP.
- Mobile-friendly: The mobile web optimization guide – Opera Developer Community
- "This article provides an overview of three different strategies to make your websites work across all devices. We'll call them "mobile-aware" websites, as they're not specifically for mobile sites, but they will work on mobile, as well as across different alternative browsing devices. These strategies are not mutually exclusive; you can mix and match as your project, budget and sanity allows."
- Creating Cross Browser HTML5 Forms Now, Using modernizr, webforms2 and html5Widgets
- This allows all browsers to support HTML5 form elements. Several browsers support various parts natively and it won't mess with this, but overall support is still sketchy and this helps resolve that for now.
Links for July 27th
- America's god is dying – ABC Religion & Ethics – Opinion
- Brilliant words from Stanley Hauerwas on why America's god is just that: an American god, and further that this god is dying. Beyond that, he indicates why this is such a good thing.
Links for July 26th
- A Real Web Design Application | Jason Santa Maria
- "The web and its related disciplines have grown organically. I think it’s safe to say the web is not the domain of just the geeks anymore—we all live here. And those of us who work here should have sophisticated, native tools to do our jobs."
- Celebrating story in a sound bite culture
- Rachel Held Evans reflects on the deep differences between stories and sound bites, and what we miss when we don't get the full story.
Links for July 20th
- reconstruction with some old materials – Notes From Off Center
- Drew takes a strong look at issues of sin, atonement, and how we might recommit ourselves to it if we seek to do such a thing.
- The creativity crisis (Newsweek) « Scott Berkun
- Scott Berkun reflects on the American creativity crisis as Newsweek reported it. He takes a look at a story that seemed to give hope, and then reminds us of its implications for the way we teach, do, and reward teachers in our country.
- You can still use div | HTML5 Doctor
- When and why we can still use the div tag when using the new semantic elements in HTML5. I've wondered about this; fantastic to have a solid answer.
Links for July 19th
- Micah Challenge USA – Micah Challenge
- "Micah Challenge USA is Christian Campaign to end extreme poverty. We are part of a global Micah Challenge movement of churches, universities, organizations, families, and individuals in 41 countries. Christians from Mozambique to Mongolia are united in prayer and action to meet the Millennium Development Goals by 2015."
- Weblog » Emergent Village » A Time To Reconstruct
- Jonathan Brink lets us see into his ideas for a reconstructed way of looking at the atonement. It's a beautiful piece, and though I'm not entirely sure I'm with him it's worth a read.
- Vittana | Building a world where anyone can go to college
- Brilliant idea: a site where folks can make loans to individual students around the world so they can afford to go to college. Many people in my generation have been engulfed by student loan debt, but even that is better than the opportunities afforded many folks around the world. This is a way to fix that.
- How can the West preach nonviolence to Muslims? – Glocal Christianity
- An examination of what nonviolence really means, and the utter hypocrisy we show when we try to advocate it for Muslims without doing it ourselves.
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