Quick Links, February 01
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
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
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
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
