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I took it and so should you

The people at A List Apart have published the findings for the 2008 survey addressed to the people who make websites.
It’s a very interesting must read if you work in the field.

http://aneventapart.com/alasurvey2008/

As a native Spanish speaker, when I started doing web sites 10 years ago, you were able to find documentation only in English.
Thankfully I had a good knowledge of the language.
Through the years I happened to believe that English was the de-facto language that programmers use.
Now I have more arguments that support I was in the right track.
Like this article at Coding Horror mentions (read the comments too), I believe it’s not a matter of culture, it’s just funtional.

Google has released a wonderful tool for web developer, is the Google’s AJAX APIs Playground, where you’ll have the possibility to test your code in a fast way with the most popular Javascript/AJAX APIs.

I find this a great tool to rapidly test your code and a nice way to learn different APIs.

Today is Blue Beanie Day II, go out there and take a picture of your self sporting a blue beanie or cap, and then show the world that you support web standards.

Hey! look at me at the RRW post.

Yes, the findings are finally here, it’s an 82 pages pdf doc, so I’ll take some spare time this weekend to read it.
The team of A List Apart has posted the raw data in case you want to rise your own conclusions.

I’ve just read this Jeffrey Zeldman’s article about E-mail design an the good reasons not to do so.
I wholeheartedly agree with him.

This is a test for web professionals carried out by A List Apart.
If you are a web professional, please take it, I just did.

Maybe it has been said too much about this matter, but I’d like to share my opinion on it.

As most of the developers/designers out there, I started web development using the regular and common tool. Recently I gave a try to CSS2Edit, and after two weeks using it I just bought it. Is an excellent tool for the creation of CSS, I strongly recomend it (Sorry Windowz users, you can’t have it, it’s only made for Mac because it’s based on WebKit, the rendering engine that Safari uses).

The other wonderful piece of software that I’ve been trying is TextMate, which is a really powerful text editor. I find myself using it daily and I’m planning to buy a copy this week. it handles almost every known programming language currently used, and it has a very active plug-in and bundles building community. I will write more about these two monsters in further post.

As a bottom line, I’m seriously thinking in not buying the long awaited next generation UB of Dreamweaver.

I’ve just installed the inlineRSS plugin from iconophobia to put my Simpy bookmarks here