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[jQuery] Usability Do’s And Don’ts For Interactive Design

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/04/27/usability-dos-and-donts-for-interactive-design/

[Web Standard] Meet WOFF, The Standard Web Font Format

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2010/04/23/meet-woff-the-standard-web-font-format.aspx

[Optimisation] http://www.alistapart.com/articles/better-javascript-minification/

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/better-javascript-minification/

[CSS] Different Stylesheets for Differently Sized Browser Windows

http://css-tricks.com/resolution-specific-stylesheets/

[SEO] To slash or not to slash

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/to-slash-or-not-to-slash.html

[PHP] The Ultimate WordPress Security Guide

http://stylizedweb.com/2010/04/19/the-ultimate-wordpress-security-guide/

[News] Steve Jobs’ Thoughts on Flash

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/

Tags: reading materials

Ever since StackOverflow succeed with its reputation along with its white label product, many were inspired (or alternatively, challenged by its closed-source) creating a surge of Question and Answering System (QAS) in the web application market.

… And here is my own! Introducing Qanda, open source QAS in PHP/MySQL.

Avoiding been another weekend project, Qanda is start small and simple. Powered by Kohana MVC Framework, the development took off with efficiency and quality. This project has been under development for a bit more than 2 months and with the past 2 weeks we have been theming up a presentable interface to go with demo site to showcase on what Qanda is offering.

This public demo will encourage more users to try out on Qanda and for developers, our code base is under strict quality control making code browsing a walk in the park. Although Qanda is currently in beta and todo list is still at large, the system is guaranteed to be driven by programming enthusiasts with constant deliverable and improvements to satisfy public demand.

Find out more on Qanda’s project page
http://www.qandasystem.com/

Try out public demo site (allow guest participation)
http://demo.qandasystem.com/

Wiki and todo list is currently been working on:
http://wiki.github.com/qanda/Qanda/

We are looking forward to your feedback, comment and more excitingly: your participation!

Tags: beta, Kohana, PHP, QAS, StackExchange, sydphp

[CSS] CSS generated content techniques

http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/css-generated-content-techniques/

[Design] Website Redesign Criteria

http://www.3point7designs.com/blog/2010/04/website-redesign-criteria/

[Trend] iPhone OS 4.0 wrap-up

http://www.slashgear.com/iphone-os-4-0-wrap-up-0880971/

[SEO] Using site speed in web search ranking

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-in-web-search-ranking.html

[Software] Extreme Programming (XP) at a Glance

http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/archive/2010/04/06/extreme-programming-xp-at-a-glance.aspx

[Trend] Full Details On Twitter’s Long-Awaited Ad Platform: Promoted Tweets

http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/12/full-details-on-twitters-long-awaited-ad-platform/

[Software] Visual Studio 2010 Released

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/VisualStudio2010Released.aspx

Tags: reading materials

[HTML] Don’t Put Hints Inside Text Boxes in Web Forms

http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2010/03/dont-put-hints-inside-text-boxes-in-web-forms.php

[CSS] CSS Sprites: Useful Technique, or Potential Nuisance?

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/03/26/css-sprites-useful-technique-or-potential-nuisance/

[HTML] Embed image with Data URIs

http://css-tricks.com/data-uris/

[CSS] Middle Box Links

http://css-tricks.com/middle-box-links/

[Trend] Are You Ready To Share Your Location Yet?

http://blog.go2web20.net/2010/03/are-you-ready-to-share-your-location.html

[Dev] Mapping GitHub – a network of collaborative coders

http://flowingdata.com/2010/03/31/mapping-the-github-community/

[Trend] The iPad and Innovation Theory

http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2010/what-will-the-ipad-replace/

Tags: reading materials

It has been proven, many wonderful technologies and advancement has been achieved on the first day of April. Here are just a few of remarkable 1st of April achievement of 2010.

• Google goes nuclear, translates Animal noise to text, announced particle to digital conversion add 3D to Google Maps and acquires ProBlogger.
• Google API improvement with malicious request detection.
• Atlassian introducing a new location-based service for developers - fourwalls.
• phpBB acquired by Microsoft and is now ‘ASPbb’.
• YouTube saves bandwidth and money with TEXTp mode.
• Opera’s astronomical advancement as space web browser is announce.
• IE 10 will drop Trident and pickup Lynx layout engine.
• Kodak’s aromatography technology allows you to smell photos.

Be proud for our technical savvies around the world with brilliant ideas and inventions and enjoy your April Fools’ Day.