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This update covers tutorials, tips and techniques that you should have read in January 2010. Featured publications include: A List Apart, Perishable  Press, DevSnippets, Webdesigner Depot, Nettuts+, Inspiring Pixel, Gaya Design, PV.M Garage, Line25, Woork Up, Six Revisions, Tutorialzine, Papermashup, WPWebHost, TechPortal, Yehuda Katz, Codrops, NuRelm, Queness, PHP Web and IT Stuff, DLOCC, WebM.ag, Jon Galloway, DevMoose, CSSKarma, AEXT, Viral Patel, and JankoAtwarpSpeed.

Featured authors include: Lam Nguyen, Tuhin Kumar, Chris Spooner, Jason Schuller, Louis Lazaris, Dan Wellman, Martin Angelov, Siddharth, Ashley Ford, Navjot Singh, Gaya Kessler, Burak Guzel, Piervincenzo Madeo, Peter Verhage, Yehuda Katz, Jeff Starr, Mary Lou, Chris Taylor, Kevin Liew, James Padolsey, Noura Yehia, Jason Cranford Teague, Devin Walker, Bill Peña, McBonio, Jon Galloway, Jean-Paul Bernadina, Tim Wright, Viral Patel, Shelley Powers, Janko Jovanovic,

• 10 Tips for Better Print Style Sheets
  By Pieter Beulque, January 29th, 2010
  Site: Webdesigner Depot
• The Easiest Way to Build your First iPhone App
  By Bill Peña, January 28th, 2010
  Site: Nettuts+
• Form Design with Sliding Labels
  By Tim Wright, January 28th, 2010
  Site: CSSKarma
• How to Add Content and Completely Manipulate Your WordPress RSS Feeds
  January 27th, 2010
  Site: WPBeginner
• Dynamic tabs using jQuery – why and how to create it
  By Janko Jovanovic, January 26th, 2010
  Site: JankoAtwarpSpeed
• Everything you wanted to know about SVG but were afraid to ask
  By Shelley Powers, January 26th, 2010
  Site: A List Apart
• oEmbed: An Open Format Every Developer Should Know About
  By Viral Patel, January 26th, 2010
  Site: Viral Patel
• Code a Backwards Compatible, One Page Portfolio with HTML5 and CSS3
  By Tom Kenny, January 25th, 2010
  Site: Inspect Element
• 55+ Most Wanted WordPress Tips, Tricks, and Hacks
  January 25th, 2010
  Site: WPBeginner
• How to Create a Cool Anaglyphic Text Effect with CSS
  By Chris Spooner, January 24th, 2010
  Site: Line25
• Automatically Create a Bit.ly URL for WordPress Posts
  By Jean-Paul Bernadina, January 22nd, 2010
  Site: DevMoose
• Custom Query Shortcode: Run a Loop inside Any Post/Page
  By Chris Coyier, January 21st, 2010
  Site: Digging into WordPress
• Using CDN Hosted jQuery with a Local Fall-back Copy
  By Jon Galloway, January 21st, 2010
  Site: Jon Galloway
• How to Make all Browsers Render HTML5 Mark-up Correctly – Even IE6
  By Bill Peña, January 20th, 2010
  Site: Nettuts+
• Timed CSS Stylesheet Switch Using PHP
  By McBonio, January 19th, 2010
  Site: WebM.ag
• CSS Transitions 101
  By Jason Cranford Teague, January 18th, 2010
  Site: Webdesigner Depot
• Modern CSS Typography and Font Styling Examples
  By Devin Walker, January 18th, 2010
  Site: DLOCC
• 10 New WordPress Wanted Hacks and Powerful Techniques
  By Noura Yehia, January 18th, 2010
  Site: DevSnippets
• jQuery 1.4: The 15 New Features you Must Know
  By James Padolsey, January 14th, 2010
  Site: Nettuts+
• Create a Beautiful Looking Custom Dialog Box With jQuery and CSS3
  By Kevin Liew, January 13th, 2010
  Site: Queness
• ASP.NET for PHP Developers
  By Chris Taylor, January 12th, 2010
  Site: Nettuts+
• Self-resizing Navigation Menu with jQuery
  By Mary Lou, January 12th, 2010
  Site: Codrops
• CSS3 + Progressive Enhancement = Smart Design
  By Jeff Starr, January 11th, 2010
  Site: Perishable  Press
• Creating a Custom Facebook Fan Page
  January 11th, 2010
  Site: PHP Web and IT Stuff
• Learning PHP 5.3 by writing your own ORM
  By Peter Verhage, January 11th, 2010
  Site: TechPortal
• How To Create Depth And Nice 3D Ribbons Only Using CSS3
  By Piervincenzo Madeo, January 10th, 2010
  Site: PV.M Garage
• ActiveModel: Make Any Ruby Object Feel Like ActiveRecord
  By Yehuda Katz, January 10th, 2010
  Site: Yehuda Katz
• Techniques for Mastering cURL
  By Burak Guzel, January 8th, 2010
  Site: Nettuts+
• Text with Moving Backgrounds with jQuery
  By Gaya Kessler, January 8th, 2010
  Site: Gaya Design
• Optimizing Wordpress Blog for Speed
  By Navjot Singh, January 7th, 2010
  Site: WPWebHost
• Build a JSON and PHP product gallery
  By Ashley Ford, January 7th, 2010
  Site: Papermashup
• CSS Reset: Ways and Advantages
  By Tuhin Kumar, January 6th, 2010
  Site: Inspiring Pixel
• jQuery Animations: a 7-Step Program
  By Siddharth, January 6th, 2010
  Site: Nettuts+
• A Bullet-Proof Content Viewer
  By Dan Wellman, January 5th, 2010
  Site: Nettuts+
• Bring Flickr to Your Website Using JSON and jQuery
  By Melissa , January 5th, 2010
  Site: NuRelm
• Advanced Event Timeline With PHP, CSS & jQuery
  By Martin Angelov, January 5th, 2010
  Site: Tutorialzine
• Getting Started with jQuery
  By Louis Lazaris, January 4th, 2010
  Site: Six Revisions
• How To Add a Flickr Gallery to Your WordPress Theme Without a Plugin
  By Jason Schuller, January 4th, 2010
  Site: Woork Up
• The Basics of Typography
  By Tuhin Kumar, January 4th, 2010
  Site: Inspiring Pixel
• The Right Way To Build WordPress as a Community News
  By Lam Nguyen, January 2nd, 2010
  Site: AEXT

So which articles you found most useful. Also feel free to recommend any good article that we may have missed.

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It’s time to say Ciao (goodbye) to Zurich and the excellent group of developer attendees we met there. To sum up the 3 days we spent here: It was incredible!

I’m On A Mountain!

Let’s start with the location: the Hotel Kulm in Zurich is where the 2 day training was held. This hotel sits at the top of Uteilberg, has fantastic views and at this time of the year, there is snow everywhere:

 

The location put everyone in a good mood. Sort of. A snow storm followed us to Zurich, just the same as Day 1 in Frankfurt. While a couple of attendees were delayed, everyone made it to the class and enjoyed the course.

Fantastic Attendees!

The group of attendees here were a sharp bunch of developers. A few of them were also owners and founders of their own successful software companies. Check out the some of the pics from the class:

 

 

Special Guest

Marc Greiner also attended the class to both learn about the DevExpress ASP.NET controls but also meet with Oliver and myself. Both Oliver and I were humbled and honored to have Marc there and to finally meet him in person.

Marc’s involvement with the DX-Squad goes back many years as he’s helped many developers in the DevExpress forums. Thanks Marc!

Paris Or Bust

Now we drive to the last stop, Paris!

 

Stay tuned for more news from the European Road Tour.

There’s an ad over on MSN UK for the new “Mass Effect 2” game and it’s very distinctive as it’s done in Silverlight and has some really cool aspects to it such as making use of Smooth Streaming and DeepZoom. It’s not often ( well, ever ) that I’ve linked to an ad before or suggested that someone watch one but I think this is really worth a look at to see the sort of quality that you can get from Silverlight in an ad like this. It’s also worth going full screen with it and experimenting with the navigation system. Click the image below to jump to the page ( although, of course, ads run for a duration and so I guess it may not still be there if you get to this post in a few days/weeks time ). You can find more detail on the ad from the guys at Metia ( ooh – nice Silverlight home page too :-) ) who put it together. Steve Ellis has a post over here about it and Dean Gifford has one here which spells out a little more detail about what you’re looking at. I don’t know whether it’s a “true first” for Silverlight or not...(read more)

The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights, guards against unreasonable searches and seizures. Basically, it says that law enforcement needs a court-ordered warrant – provided there’s probably cause – to make a search. Today, one of the biggest questions for enterprises considering moving data to the cloud is, under the Fourth Amendment, what kind of data protection they’re entitled to when in the hands of a third party. Now, however, there’s a new legal opinion of the application of the Fourth to the cloud. cnet has taken a look and reports that it’s not only right on the mark but that the courts sorely need to adopt it in deciding cases arising from cloud data privacy issues.

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