Writing on full-stack design & development.

It's been quiet around here for a few months. Part of that, of course, is the holidays and all the craziness that comes with them. But the main reason is that I've spent most of my free computer time on this: my new site.

There's a great collection of IE6 fixes up on Virtuosi Media that is worth a bookmark. If you've ever stepped into IE6 (and, chances are, you have) you know that it can be a mess. This cheatsheet is a very nice roundup of IE6 bugs in HTML/CSS/Javascript, plus a few more goodies.

Client-side validation (checking for things like required fields, valid email address, etc) is always one of those sort of pain in the butt, last minute, only because i have to sort of things. It's not usually fun or flashy, it's just one of those things you have to do. Enter VanadiumJS, a new library just released by Daniel Kwiecinski.

Speaking of HTML5 and canvas, Carsonified has a nice little tutorial to get started with canvas. This article includes a good overview of where you can use canvas(anywhere), which browsers support it (most of them, at least with a little help (even IE6!)), and how to get going with some easy stuff.

Dive Into HTML5 is a thoroughly beautiful site by Mark Pilgrim that houses text from his upcoming book of the same name.

As I'm sure you're aware, Firefox 3.5 was released recently. If you haven't already, I would suggest updating (:

A new site, HTML5 Doctor, was recently released, and it promises to be a good resource for learning HTML5.

Yes, it's back. The annual CSS Naked Day.

10bestthings.com just went live a few minutes ago. It's basically a site where you can make top 10 (or any number, really) lists and then share them around. It's actually a lot of fun to play with. Here's a list I made a while ago that I'm fairly proud of: My favorite Christmas movies .

There are no good desktop Twitter apps out there. I seriously can't stand any of them. So this is a plea to the software developers out there: Please, make a good one. To get you started, here's a list of features I'd like to see: