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CSS

Not to miss: 10 lines of JavaScript to emulate the :hover pseudo-class in IE5+

And it works: Vertical centering in CSS. Hicksdesign identifies two problems with the given implementation and offers an improved version, plus discussion

Also a hicksdesign: Highlighting current page with CSS (three years ago, this required me some lines of PHP)

Pure CSS tooltips - that even print. Cheah Chu Yeow thinks the original version is semantically incorrect and offers an improved version

Maxdesign: Definition lists - misused or misunderstood?

Image replacement techniques that work

CSS Zen Garden: Holy Moly! (wait for the images to load)

Resources: dithered.com CSS Filters and Hacks, The Daily Standards, css.maxdesign.com.au tutorials, CSS Vault inspiration

XUL

Wolfgang Schmidetzki on developing XUL-Applications with Mozilla: Part 1: Handling the security restrictions, Part 2: Finding RDF-resources from a tree selection

RDF in Mozilla Documentation Extravaganza

XUL Periodic Table (in ZIP format)

PHP

Worth a closer look: Log4php is a PHP port of Log4j, a popular Java logging framework. Via PHP Patterns

The PHP Community Wiki

Sample chapter of Harry Fuecks' book The PHP Anthology

Orkut

Anders Jacobsen: The background research leading up to Orkut.com

Jeremy Zawodny: Why Google needs Orkut - because it needs users

and

The 12 Days of Sofware Development

Browsing with the Nokia 6600

Nifty: Flash used as a magnifying glass on this Daily Dose of Imagery photo

Joel on Software: Getting your resume read

30 Metri: Rules of Life

Ten Mistakes Writers Don't See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do)

A crash lesson with Tim Bray: Introduction to the VC Process

Under the Iron interviews

Can you type?

When Word - XML conversions get nasty

Why sleeping on it just might work: " The researchers for the Lubeck study likened sleep to a form of offline processing for new memories. During the third of our lives spent asleep, mental glimpses of insight are reorganized into new, conscious knowledge, according to the study in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature."

Hurry, hurry, Arnie: Terminator at work