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Did you get that iPhone you wanted for Christmas? iCodeBlog has some great introductory iPhone programming tutorials.

It seems like all of my clients love big shiny buttons. On 24 Ways they have a great tutorial Shiny Happy Buttons that shows you how to easily create some nice looking buttons with a minimal amount of html and css.

The Module Patter in JavaScript is a powerful tool that uses the idea of closures and automatically evaluated functions. After using this technique for a while now it’s hard for me to imagine writing JavaScript in any other way.

The repetition of rewriting long namespaces while calling methods or accessing properties was the one thing that bugged me about using this pattern. To alleviate this annoyance I did some googling and found Again with the Module Pattern. This article will give you an idea about how useful the Module Pattern can be.

Two other good Module Pattern articles, both named A JavaScript Module Pattern, can be found at yuiblog.com and ajaxian.com.

A List Apart has a great article about content strategy.

The basic idea from this article is to setup a plan for your content that will deliver good content that your web-site’s viewers need and want while also fulfilling business requirements.

The most important part of content strategy is to make sure that a plan for content exists in the first place. Once you have a plan make sure that the plan has a champion or someone that will make sure that everyone else in your organization sticks to the plan. When deadlines start to approach it is easy to publish content that is sub par or that does not fit into your strategy so having a champion for content strategy will help to keep everyone inline.

Santa has dropped a little bit a snow in Seattle, a pretty cool early Christmas present.

The 8 Useful WordPress SQL Hacks article on Smashing Magazine has some useful tips for making some repetitive tasks in Wordpress go a little quicker.

24 ways is back for 2007 with new tips, tricks, and tutorials.

Here are my favorite articles from the new 24 ways

Transparent PNGs in Internet Explorer 6

Dealing with support for transparent PNGs in IE 6

Get To Grips with Slippy Maps

Creating interactive, draggable maps using the Mapstraction library

Capturing Caps Lock

Detecting Caps Lock in a web app

10 Ways To Get Design Approval

10 tips for getting approval of a design

Unobtrusively Mapping Microformats with jQuery

Using jQuery to extract data from Microformats

CSS for Accessibility

CSS techniques that help make your site accessible to as many users as possible

Christmas Is In The AIR

Introduction to Adobe AIR and using standard web technologies to build a desktop application

A List Apart’s article “A Preview of HTML 5” gives an overview of the current status of HTML5. One of the cool things about HTML5 is that it would introduce new elements that would provide semantic alternatives to using the div element for page layout.

HTML 5 introduces a whole set of new elements that make it much easier to structure pages. Most HTML 4 pages include a variety of common structures, such as headers, footers and columns and today, it is fairly common to mark them up using div elements, giving each a descriptive id or class.

The use of div elements is largely because current versions of HTML 4 lack the necessary semantics for describing these parts more specifically. HTML 5 addresses this issue by introducing new elements for representing each of these different sections.

Definr.com is a pretty cool dictionary site. It’s tagline is “incredibly fast dictionary” and it is fast. Definr.com is only one page but it does everything a dictionary should do and does it well in that page.

From a BBC News Article “Stricken Antarctic ship evacuated“.

The M/S Explorer is now lying on its side close to the South Shetland Islands, in the Antarctic Ocean.