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Links for November 5th

CodeIgniter Tutorials to Help You Get Started | KomunitasWeb
Great list of CodeIgniter tutorials, on all different levels and for all kinds of functionality.
tags:
programming
codeigniter
php

Links for November 4th

Tall Skinny Kiwi: The Starfish Manifesto Released
The Starfish Manifesto has been released. Here is an email that was sent describing it, and a link to download it for free.
tags:
emerging
church
andrew-jones
The Address Element | HTML5 Doctor
A solid, straightforward explanation of the address element. It has been badly used for a long time, so the more this kind of thing gets out, the better we are.
tags:
html
html5
Burnside Writers Collective » Blog Archive » Happy Accidents in a Common Place
"I occasionally wonder about the damage that can be done by the careless appeal to 'community.'" Great thoughts on what the church has done with the concept of community, and a contrast that draws upon Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
tags:
community
church
pete-rollins
dietrich-bonhoeffer
Naked as the day we were born | Real Live Preacher
"I had a vision the other day that came to me in the form of a daydream. I was sitting in the library staring off into space when suddenly I imagined myself in a huge room with a crowd of people. We were all waiting for God to show up."
tags:
story
jesus
Mockingbird
"Mockingbird is an online tool that makes it easy for you to create, link together, preview, and share mockups of your website or application."
tags:
tools
software
design
information-architecture
user-experience

Links for November 3rd

A List Apart: Articles: You Can Get There From Here: Websites for Learners
""Content-rich" is not enough. Most websites are not learner-friendly. As an industry, we haven’t done our best to make our content-rich websites suitable for learning and exploration." I think this has potential to be a game-changer, seriously.
tags:
education
user-experience
writing
design
information-architecture
A List Apart: Articles: Can You Say That in English? Explaining UX Research to Clients
"David Sherwin creates a cheat sheet to help you pitch UX research using plain, client-friendly language that focuses on the business value of each exercise."
tags:
usability
design
user-experience

Links for November 2nd

Tall Skinny Kiwi: My Prediction for Next Decade: Church Will Revisit 1930's
Andrew Jones gives his predictions for the next decade of the church. They are a great read, and they fit really well into what I see.
tags:
mission
church

Links for November 1st

Socially + Environmentally Responsible Gift Guide
"The products you buy can have extreme effects on the planet, animals and especially those who make them. It's our responsibility to vote for peace, sustainability and a cleaner earth with our wallets."
tags:
fair-trade
activism
economic-activism
economics

Links for October 30th

Afghanistan: A Whole New Approach – Jim Wallis – God’s Politics Blog
Jim Wallis offers a third approach to Afghanistan, focusing on making peace and listening to people who actually know the country and its people well. Jim Wallis has consistently offered alternatives to more war, and it is time these ideas get attention.
tags:
politics
peace-activism
peace
jim-wallis
afghanistan

Links for October 29th

Aside Revisited | HTML5 Doctor
An update on a previous article about the HTML5 aside element. The spec itself has been updated, so this article explains what is happening.
tags:
design
html5
html
James' Travels: Business Will Change the World, chapter 4: If you won't buy it…
James continues his series on business changing the world. He asks how we can guide business to do good things for the world, instead of harming it.
tags:
business
business-activism
activism

Links for October 28th

rikrikrik.com – jQuery magicpreview plug-in
Simple jQuery plugin that allows you to display a form's contents to users as they type. This is wonderful for blog comments, among other things.
tags:
plugin
jquery-plugin
jquery
javascript
forms
design

Links for October 27th

October 26, 2009: Cornel West
Clip of Steven Colbert talking with Dr. Cornel West. Great thoughts on race, poverty, and the book, as always.
tags:
poverty
books
race
steven-colbert
cornel-west

Links for October 26th

aToolTip – A Simple jQuery Tooltip by Ara Abcarians
This is a wonderful tooltip plugin for jQuery.
tags:
jquery-plugin
plugin
design
javascript
jquery
bassistance.de » jQuery plugin: Autocomplete
Great plugin to use jQuery for an Ajax autosuggest box within search forms. The documentation isn't as great as I'd like, but the plugin is the best of its kind.
tags:
forms
jquery-plugin
plugin
jquery
javascript
ajax
programming
design
jQuery datePicker datePicker into selects
If you have a set of date fields in an HTML form, you can use this plugin to change it into a nice date picker. It is unobtrusive, and degrades very nicely.
tags:
forms
design
jquery-plugin
jquery
javascript
The End Of Poverty
Fascinating-looking documentary about the end of poverty – seeks to "explain how our economic system has created poverty and why it is the foundation for the current financial crisis."
tags:
economic-activism
poverty
economics
film

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