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Free! Hot Topics from the Blogs: September 2004
As the summer draws to a close, minds turn to completing projects and starting up new ones, so this month our blog round-up, apart from maintaining its watching brief, also includes some links to developing resources you might find useful.
Highlight spotted this month - details of sIFR a new Flash replacement technique.
Hot Topics from the Blogs is a monthly peer into the blogs of Web development movers and shakers, with the focus on highlighting recent postings that will stimulate and educate.
Resources, Resources
While I'm duty bound, and required by contractual obligation <g>, to tell you how good DMXzone is, I can't claim we're the only resource in the world. So, to round off this months blog round up here's some recent resources, or fledgling resources, that I've browsed across:
- Standards resources for beginners
- Absolute versus relative positioning in CSS
- Suggestions for E-Commerce sites for the festive season
- An introduction to centering using CSS
- Thoughts on providing and formatting links
- A guide to z-indexing
Firefox
In case you haven't already noticed, a lot of the bloggers referenced are rather keen on the Firefox browser, which has recently released a 1.0 preview release. This is generating a bit of excitement, through some of the new features like Live Bookmarks; a way of viewing RSS news and blog headlines in the bookmarks toolbar or bookmarks menu.
So positive technical features to investigate in this much-lauded browser, as well as the security related ones.
I Never Knew That Corner
From this post about the Microsoft versus Open Source to use Sender ID or not debate, I found out that AOL open sources their own web server. Wow.
Blogger Code
I should have looked it up before, but sadly I hadn't. If you're ever wondering what those cryptic little lists of Unix reminiscent letters (d+ t- x- l, c+ or whatever) are in some peoples blog rolls, then it's a Blogger Code.
I hope you've enjoyed this third trawl of a small part of the blogosphere – once again feel free to let me know if you've got any thoughts or comments.
Ian Blackham
Following a degree in Chemistry and a doctorate in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, Ian spent several years wrestling with acronyms in industrial R&D (SEM with a side order of EDS, AFM and TEM augmented with a topping of XPS and SIMS and yet more SEM and TEM).
Feeling that he needed a career with more terminology but less high voltages, Ian became a technical/commissioning editor with Wrox Press working on books as diverse as Beg VB Application Development and Professional Java Security. After Wrox's dissolution and a few short term assignments Ian helped out with DMXzone's premium content section.
Ian is a refugee from the industrial Black Country having slipped across the border to live in Birmingham. In his spare time he helps out with the website of a local history society, tries to makes sure he does what his wife Kate says, and worries that the little 'un Noah is already more grown up than he is.