Dustin Boston

Link Fu For You - Dec 12

Here's a LINK to the Face!

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  Monsters of the Programming World

  
  
  Some of the difficulties we experience in any project really, but specifically geared toward programmers.
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  Typographic Contrast and Flow

  
  
  I love's myself some pretty text. I hope this helps to make a difference in web typography.
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  Generate a Color Palette from an Image | Arno Nel 2.0

  
  
  "In this post i look at online tools that can generate color palettes from images." Looks pretty helpful although I've not had great luck with these babies before.
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  Find and Replace Tool

  
  
  I've been looking for a handy regex tool like this for a while. Put in a bunch of text, your regex, and hit Get Results. Can do everything that regex should do. I should have programmed one of these in PHP a long time ago but oh well.
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  Pinger - mobile messages that talk

  
  
  Interesting concept for mass voicemailing. It's also interesting to see how they're marketing it. Notice the dude with the tattoo on his neck on the homepage–it's either that or a star earing.
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  Killing Some Bad Layout Conventions - Design View / Andy Rutledge

  
  
  What a fantastic article. I love the very clear, very factual presentation of his case, and the diagrams to boot! Excellent work.
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  Link Value Factors | Wiep.net

  
  
  Some of the most respected link building professionals have rated several link value related factors, which lead to the Link Value Factors.
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  Anatomy of Credit Card Numbers

  
  
  This is an excellent breakdown of how credit card numbers work. I've actually used this in a project before. Very helpful.
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  2007: More Web Design Trends & Cliches

  
  
  Modern Life - News & views of the modern internet. Editorial and articles on web design, search engine optimisation and internet security.
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  OpenID for Developers

  
  
  Well I guess this is the authoritative place to start with OpenId. Read the specs, grok the examples.
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  PHP-based OpenID Server code

  
  
  Interesting comments here regarding the performance of the Jan Rain libraries in Drupal. They begin to make a good case for developing a native server.
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  Using Drupal as an OpenID Server

  
  
  This is something I'd really like to do. I've already hacked out a little OpenId server based off of some files I found on the interwebz but I think this takes it to the next level.
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  Easy Backlinks: Drupal is backlink compatible

  
  
  This is an interesting strategy for building linkbacks.

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