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*Miscellaneous 10 “Nice-To-Have” Skills for Front-End Developers

Front-end developers generally specialize in clean, standards-compliant, accessible XHTML, CSS, JavaScript and, more often than not, graphic design. But since front-end coders are a dime-a-dozen these days, it pays to have experience, or, at least, rudimentary knowledge, in a number of other technologies that often don’t get listed under “mandatory” skills for a front-end position. Tags: frontend

*Programming Quicksand

jQuery plugin for reordering and filtering items with a nice shuffling animation Tags: javascript, jquery, plugin, filter, category, reorder

*Programming Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: 12 Things We Learned the Hard Way

There are a bunch of basic functional elements to building out a popular Rails app that I've never really seen explained in one place, but we had to learn the hard way while building Posterous. Here's a rundown of what we've learned. Tags: scaling, rails

*Programming ASP.NET 3.5 A Beginners Guide (McGraw Hill)

A great beginners guide to learning ASP.NET 3.5 fundamentals of programming and application development. Tags: asp, .net, asp.net

*Programming 22 Great Blogs for JavaScript developers

If you want to know all the latest news about JavaScript, then you should definitely have all these blogs in your RSS reader. Tags: javascript, blogs

*Design Fresh vs. Familiar: How Aggressively to Redesign

Users hate change, so it's usually best to stay with a familiar design and evolve it gradually. In the long run, however, incrementalism eventually destroys cohesiveness, calling for a new UI architecture. Typically, a fresh design will be a worse design simply because it's new and thus breaks user expectations. Tags: redesign, users