interesting post and sample:
http://www.crucialwebhost.com/blog/master-stylesheet-the-most-useful-css-technique/

In an effort to find a cold fusion solution to a problem with the Chamber's lister implementation, I came across this site:
http://www.learn-coldfusion-tutorial.com/

Obviously I am not saying we should all go out and learn ColdFusion because that would be ****! (you can fill in the blank on your own!)

But this same company seems to have more than just ColdFusion, including AJAX, CSS, HTML, SQL, Javascript, PHP, Web Accessibility, XML, XSLT and Silverlight. The tutorials are featured down the left hand sidebar in the link above.

It may be a good source of free learning materials.

I have found a firebug style tool for IE7:
http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/

It doesn't quite have the same functionality but may be of use!

As an less complete alternative to dnsstuff try- http://www.yougetsignal.com.

One of the biggestthings here is a tool which will identify which sites are hosted on the same server as a particular domain.  This is particularly good for sites on shared hosting.

For example, did you know that Rufflets (rufflets.co.uk, asp.net version 1.1) is hosted on teh same box as Crerar hotels (www.crerarhotels.com, asp.net version 2.0)?

A dnrTV screen cast on the basics of the MVC Pattern.  It goes through a basic Hello World and then a complete Northwind example which servers as a good introduction:
http://dnrtv.com/default.aspx?ShowID=95

an interesting form to generate typesetting css:
http://www.csstypeset.com

This goes nicely with an blog post I read a few weeks back:
http://clagnut.com/blog/348/

The basic jist is that if you use the CSS rule:

body
{
    font-size: 62.5%;
}

then:
10px = 1.0em
12px = 1.2em
14px = 1.4em

USing "em" font sizes increase the scalabiltiy of the text when you enlarge it and IE/Win will not allow readers to resize text that has been sized in pixels.  So this gives you pixel level control and yet keep the accesibilty of using em.

For those who don't know an em is a unit of topography relative to the point size of the current font:
ie. if font size was set to 14pt - 1em = 14pt, if the font size was set to 16pt, 1em = 16pt.

When is a scrollbar not a scrollbar? When users can't recognize it as a scrollbar and don't use it!

Just oneof the top 10 application (read "web") design mistakes highlighted here:
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/application-mistakes.htm

I guess there are many many css references out there! here is one that jumped into my inbox somewhere along the line:
http://reference.sitepoint.com/css

Maybe in the 2 minutes it would take us to read and maybe digest the daily snippet form a site google reader threw at me this evening:

http://dotnettipoftheday.org

http://www.caffeinatedcoder.com/which-productivity-tricks-have-you-adopted-lately/

Are there tools you use everyday that increase your productivity? I have a list I am kind of compiling so I will share with you. Most of these are in the form of Firefox extensions, but developing web applications means a lot of time is spent in the Web browser.

1. The first one in the list above is SlickRun and I agree with its position. I reckon it takes at least 2-3 seconds off every program / keyworded file opening.  Which probably saves me more than a couple of minutes a day. The only downside is remembering the keywords!
2. All-In-One Gestures for Firefox - similar for IE7 is available. Web browsing is very mouse centric so my hand is on the mouse anyway!! Holding the right mouse button and making fixed movements with my mouse shaves seconds off the tasks such as back and forward, new tab, new window, view source, refresh etc, plus a few more complicated things I have going on.
3. Notepad2 - simple, clean code highlighting notepad - there are a couple of regedit scripts out there that make using it much easier.
4. URL Link - ff extension - don't you just hate it when urls in text aren't linked - this circumnavigates this failing.
5. del.icio.us - I now manage my entire bookmark selection (work and personal) with del.icio.us. - By installing the official del.icio.us extension for firefox I get the add to bookmark capability I need from Firefox and a nice tag based listing making my bookmarks easier to locate.
6. IETab - switch between FF and IE rendering engines within Firefox for quick HTML/CSS testing.

Other extensions I use include:
1. MeasureIt - Pixel measuring tape for ff.
2. Colorzilla - color picker
3. Fireshot - web page screenshots with markers!

This is by no means an exhaustive list and there are many more I could come up with - I haven't even included the ones we all know in Firebug and the web developer tool bars.

What tools assist in your productivity?

http://www.steptwo.com.au/papers/cmb_selectiontime/index.html

An interesting post on the subject "ready for production?"

http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2008/02/09/What-readyforproduction-means.aspx

A samll quote I think we all will have experience in:

"Getting something to work tends to be fairly easy. Getting it to work right under attack is the hard bit. Getting it to fail correctly is ever harder."

So according to Google Reader's Trends here are the blogs I read most:

1. Scottish Developers
2. Worse Than Failure
3. Coding Horror
4. Ezone IntraBlog
5. {codesqueeze}
6. Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen
7. Joel on Software

What do you read?

http://www.scottishdevelopers.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=1119&forum=4400

An interesting article with 5 links to a good few articles:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001050.html

We are good at this!!

Simple summary of Dependency Injection:
http://garyshortor.web140.discountasp.net/blog/archive/2008/02/01/inversion-of-control-pattern.aspx