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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.