Quoted: Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit version 1.0 is available for OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), Adobe Illustrator (PDF and SVG), and Adobe Photoshop (PNG), and covers the following to

I disagree with first quoted sentence below and the general premise of the article. True, Blueprint does force you to add some proprietary classes to your XHTML elements to dictate layout on a grid. But, your elements don't have to be divs, and you can still use additional classes to articulate the full semantic meaning of the element.

All in all, it's a small price to pay to speed up Web development. I have found I can whip up a nicely laid out site that works on all browsers *much* faster with Blueprint than I could without it. And, because there is a set of naming conventions, it makes it much easier for a team of developers (or if using a CMS, the content creators) to specify and read each others' layouts.

Quoted: A CSS framework passively removes a great majority of semantic value from the markup of a document and, in my opinion, should be avoided. This lack of semantic value works against a big part of what Web Standards are all about; creating documents with rich semantic value.

Very helpful chart of what WordPress is doing behind the scenes.

Looks promising. I know some WordPress themes make use of this.

Quoted: Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.

An important thing to know when doing Ajaxy web dev for IE.

Quoted: It is not possible append to the BODY element from script that isn’t a direct child to the BODY element

Some of the referenced blog posts are quite interesting, too.

Quoted: There are interesting posts these day about future of MySQL Replication by Brian Frank and Arjen. I think it very interesting to take a look at a bit bigger picture using framework from Innovators Dilemma and Innovators Solution.
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All these requirements made traditional databases irrelevant for many web properties - too complex and too expensive to start with.

Quoted: Say No To IE 6!
Our current campaign focuses on assisting users in upgrading their Internet Explorer 6 web browser. This campaign will result in former IE 6 users having a more enjoyable experience on the web while (hopefully) creating a less stressful and complicated environment for web developers by hastening the retirement of an outdated browser.

There are some interesting new features in version 2:

- PHP (yes, PHP) "Preview in Browser" support
- support for ASP.Net Ajax controls
- ftp publishing

Quoted: The recent announcement that ASP.NET will soon get an alternate engine in the ASP.NET Model View Controller framework (MVC - see last month’s editorial) has brought out some renewed discussion of the merits and shortcomings of Web Forms and the potential need for an alternate mechanism of building...