http://www.brianbal.com a collection of awesome Fri, 26 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Did you get that iPhone you wanted for Christmas? iCodeBlog has some great introductory iPhone programming tutorials. http://www.brianbal.com/2008/12/26/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. http://www.brianbal.com/2008/12/25/shiny-css-buttons/ 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 ... http://www.brianbal.com/2008/12/24/module-pattern-for-javascript/ 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 ... http://www.brianbal.com/2008/12/23/plan-for-content-strategy/ Santa has dropped a little bit a snow in Seattle, a pretty cool early Christmas present. http://www.brianbal.com/2008/12/19/snow-in-seattle/ 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. http://www.brianbal.com/2008/12/19/useful-wordpress-sql-hacks/ 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 ... http://www.brianbal.com/2007/12/27/2007s-24-ways/ 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 ... http://www.brianbal.com/2007/12/07/a-preview-of-html-5/ 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. http://www.brianbal.com/2007/12/01/definrcom/ 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. http://www.brianbal.com/2007/11/26/ms-explorer-crashes-in-antarctica/