Thursday Goodies
Jason Santa Maria has a great article on Maintaining Motivation when you’re a freelancer. I think this is a good article for everyone to read.
MarkTAW.com also has an article on Getting Things Done. I’m starting to see a theme here.
For those of you working on the PHP/MySQL unit, bookmark and print these MySQL and PHP cheatsheets. I love Jack Daniels!
80×15 Brilliant Button Maker creates 80×15 pixel “badge” buttons that are very popular on blogs.
Exalead is a new search engine. Here are a few of the features:
- Spelling suggestions, approximate and phonetic searches, automatic word stemming, etc.
- Visual tools for the search results such as thumbnails and “safe page preview”.
- Ability to sort search results by relevance, source, or even by date.
- Guides to help you quickly refine your search based on keywords, categories, language, document format, and even by country.
- Bookmarks to save the pages you find interesting as you navigate through the search results.
- A smart translation system.
- A breakthrough real-time Web indexing technology.
Ten Mistakes Writers Don’t See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do). One word, excellent!
Images from Iceland – Rob, my significant other, is Icelandic, so I really enjoyed viewing the beautiful imagery at this site. I also like the general layout and gallery presentation.
I have to throw a little CSS in here, otherwise I feel remiss. How about this article About Elastic Layouts.
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May 27th, 2005 at 3:06 pm
Wow. Lots of goodies here. Thanks Robin.
I really needed the articles on getting focussed!
Did you notice Exalead’s help with tsunami relief?
I have set the PHP cheatsheet as my desktop. Thanks.
For those doing PHP, I also recommend the PHP Windows Help file. It has user comments on each function giving practical examples and warnings for common “gotchas”. You can also add your own comments:
http://us3.php.net/docs-echm.php