This post contains some of the useful and interesting tech links I found during last week. To keep up to date with the latest information, subscribe to the feed or follow me on twitter @v08i.

How to write a simple application on jQuery Mobile : http://goo.gl/5DpOO

50 Free Tools and Apps for Web Designers and Developers : http://goo.gl/6YjNL

10 Useful jQuery Plugins for Images : http://goo.gl/VTk1F

20 less known Open Source PHP CMS-es : http://goo.gl/cM6f3

11 More Things I Learned From the jQuery Source : http://goo.gl/2zBh7

CSSReset : All the most common CSS Reset scripts in one place : http://goo.gl/8OV9E

JavaScript Slider – TinySlider 2 : http://goo.gl/526cL

This post contains some of the useful and interesting tech links I found during this week. To keep up to date with the latest information, subscribe to the feed or follow me on twitter @v08i

22 Brilliant and Advanced jQuery Effects to WOW Your Visitors – http://goo.gl/IUz3d

12 Cool Javascript – jQuery checkbox replacement you shouldn’t miss – http://goo.gl/4OxcT

70 Must See CSS3 Tips, Tricks And Tutorials – http://goo.gl/VarE4

The anatomy of a WordPress theme – http://goo.gl/CCdLH

Google URL Shortener API – http://goo.gl/Ia1fl

DOM Monster – http://goo.gl/nGySG

Why You Should Never Search For Free WordPress Themes in Google or Anywhere Else – http://goo.gl/QSzTE

45 Cheat-Sheet Desktop Wallpaper For Web Designers and Developers – http://goo.gl/u1VT9

What Makes a Good Website – http://goo.gl/Ua9ZW

Listamatic – various types of lists with ul and CSS – http://goo.gl/EzlcX

This post contains some of the useful and interesting tech links I found during this week. To keep up to date with the latest information, subscribe to the feed or follow me on twitter @v08i

32 Javascript Alternatives with Pure CSS – Updated – http://goo.gl/DNTvy

10 Google Chrome Extensions for a Faster Browser – http://goo.gl/slpTR

75+ Tools for Visualizing your Data, CSS, Flash, jQuery, PHP – http://goo.gl/K8771

Getting Started with HTML Emails – http://goo.gl/kej2h

15 Easy Guides on Getting You Started with HTML5 – http://goo.gl/ZDtfA

Web Developer’s Guide to Getting a Startup Up and Running – http://goo.gl/rJODj

Animated Form Switching with jQuery – http://goo.gl/rDxci

AJAX-ZOOM – 3D Spin & Zoom – http://goo.gl/uIxlG

10 Tips for Optimizing Web Form Submission Usability – http://goo.gl/qaRPa

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2011 has begun and everyone on the web is either busy in making predictions for the web or taking resolutions for another year. This post reflects on plans that I have for this year. Personally, I don’t believe in resolutions that much. Adding to this fact that I am extremely lazy. So, absolutely no f****g guarentee for any of these to be complete. But it is always good to know where you are heading to. Here is what I plan to learn/achieve this year.

Write another book

Last year I got a chance to write a book on 2 of my favorite technologies : PHP and jQuery. The result was PHP jQuery Cookbook. Writing a book is an interesting and a great learning experience. You must know every word that you are writing because you cannot rollback once the words are out in print. Nevertheless, I would like to write one more book this year. Probably on Google APIs or various other APIs like facebook, twitter etc.

Read more blogs

I am an avid reader of web development blogs. Google reader and bookmarks toolbar are a great help. This year I will add more and more feeds so that I do not skip anything.

jQuery Mobile

Accept it. jQuery is a revolution. There are many great libraries like MooTools, PrototypeJS etc but jQuery is far ahead of them all. It has changed the way we write javascript. jQuery Mobile is another cross platform mobile framework for smartphones and tablets. With mobile apps increasing at a rapid rate, jQuery mobile is the coolest tool to learn.

Facebook Apps

I have tried several other APIs(twitter, Flickr, Reddit, Youtube etc) in the past but have never created a Facebook app. It has become hard to ignore facebook. So, you will see at least couple of cool facebook apps from me this year.

The Kohana Framework

Kohana is another PHP MVC framework and it looks really promising. I have worked in past with Symfony and CodeIgniter. This year I plan to give Kohana a try.

Miscellaneous

• HTML5
• CSS3
• CoffeeScript
• Probably YQL

This list is not complete and is just a dump of whatever came to my mind. I believe we will see many more interesting technologies in this year and some of them will leave a mark and will stay with us forever.

Thanks for reading and have a great year ahead.

Ajaxian

Ajaxian covers all news related to javascript, libraries, AJAX related news, technologies, libraries, browsers quirks etc.

Why?

Definitive resource for AJAX whether you use it with PHP, Perl, NET(argh!) or whatever else. This blog should not be missed.

A List Apart

This is a classic one. The creators of this web magazine call it “For people who make websites”.

A List Apart Magazine explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices.

Why?

If you want to know all about building websites including design, code, writing compelling content and project management, this is the place.

Cats Who Code

Cats Who Code is a blog by Jean-Baptiste Jung who is a web developer and professional blogger.

Why?

For lots of helpful code snippets, lists and hacks on PHP, jQuery and definitive information on a variety of wordpress topics.

CSS-Tricks

CSS-Tricks is a website by renowned design ninja Chris Coyer where he shares his CSS secrets.

Why?

For detailed articles on how css works, browser hacks, cross browser compatibility and HTML 5.

Nettuts+

A part of Tuts+ Network, this site contains tutorials and screencasts on HTML, CSS, Javascript/jQuery, PHP, Ruby on Rails etc.Though most of the articles are free, it also publishes premium tutorials which are available for a small fee.

Why?
High quality articles that explain each topic step by step in detail and are very easy to follow even for a beginner.

PHPDeveloper

This site has been around for a long time and is a trustworthy source for news that is all PHP. Besides news, it also updates users about php conferences, jobs and new web technologies regularly.

Why?

All awesome news of PHP at on place.

Six Revisions

Despite the fact that this site is only 3 years old, it already has made a reputed name in community. It was founded by Jacob Gube who himself is a designer/developer, this blog now publishes web design related articles of authors from all over the world.

Why?

For high quality resources and articles on web design and development, web standards.

Smashing Magazine

Founded by German designers Sven Lennartz & Vitaly Friedman, for the past 4 years smashing magazine has been publishing high quality articles on web design. SM has also created what it calls “Smashing Network”. Smashing network is a channel of 30+ web development/design blogs.

Why?

Insightful and innovative articles focused primarily on web design. Very high quality content and free goodies like wallpapers, themes and wordpress themes.

Bonus

Every year in December many sites create an advent calendar that publishes 1 article per day starting from 1st of December till Christmas. Below are 2 of my favorites.

24 ways – http://24ways.org/

24 ways started out in 2005. Here is the excerpt from the site itself.

24 ways is the advent calendar for web geeks. Each day throughout December we publish a daily dose of web design and development goodness to bring you all a little Christmas cheer.

PHP Advent – http://phpadvent.org/

Curated by Chris Shiflett & Sean Coates, PHP advent started in 2008. Since then, it has been publishing articles on PHP and related technologies each year till Christmas in the month of December.

All article are written by well known developers and experts.

Here is a very useful post I found today. 19 mistakes to avoid while designing websites. Although, I am no expert on designing but I have found myself making some of these mistakes then and now.

Some of my favorites from the list are:

• If your website does not work in Firefox, welcome to 2007 DUMBASS.

• If your site needs a search engine for users to find information, it’s time to start over and fire the guy who came up with the site map (and those slick drop downs on your nav)

and most important (for me at least)

• Just because a technology is new, or you just discovered it does not make it suitable to put on a business website, JUST BECAUSE you can. – Absolutely right – I did this with AJAX.

Do read the full post on Josiah Cole’s blog.

The popularity of any web application that provides an API can be judged by the number of mashups available for it. Twitter is no exception and recently we have seen a significant number of mashups available for twitter.
twittervision ,twitterspy, twittermap, twubble are some of the popular ones. Besides there are many desktop mashups also.

toanswer is the latest addition to this list. Created by Chuck Harmston, it can be seen as integration of twitter and Yahoo answers/Ask.

The concept behind toanswer is simple : users ask questions on twitter and they get answers to these questions on a dedicated place i.e. toanswer.

Seeing the potential number of users who ask questions on twitter, no wonder if toanswer becomes a success.

toanswer uses the twitter API, collects the questions asked,their respective answers, indexes them and shows them on toanswer. Basically it works like this-
Assuming you are a twitter user, you just  have to follow 2 users toask and toanswer and you are ready to use toanswer. If you want to ask a question you send an update to twitter as

@ToAsk your_question_goes_here

If you want to answer any question that is on toanswer you reply in a format like this

@ToAnswer [questionid] your_answer_goes_here

Note the questionid. It is required in order to associate your answer with the correct question.

As twitter is limited to 140 character updates, this can be used to take advice from users rather then answers.