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Colin's Weekly Roundup - 2/1/2013
I'm always on the lookout for exciting ideas and new technologies to broaden my knowledge of web development and design. Each week, I'll be posting links to articles on development, design and other miscellanious information that I find interesting. What follows are the highlights of the links I've recently discovered. I hope you find them as useful as I did.
Design / Frontend
Sneak Peek Into The Future: Selectors, Level 4
Redesigning Google: how Larry Page engineered a beautiful revolution
Parsely.js – Javascript forms validation
Rapid and Responsive: UX to Prototype with Bootstrap
Designing a responsive, Retina-friendly site (Part 1)
Development / Backend
Magento StackExchange is now live (it’s like StackOverflow, but Magento-only)
More than you ever wanted to know about “this” in JavaScript
Zend Framework 2.0.7 and 2.1.0 Released
Method calls on primitive types in PHP
Rethinking string interpolation in PHP
Using Artificial Intelligence to Write Self-Modifying/Improving Programs
Performance / Optimization
Let’s do a bunch of simple stuff to make websites faster
Front-end performance for web designers and front-end developers
Linux / System Management
Homeland Security: Disable UPnP as tens of millions at risk
How we moved our data center 25 miles without downtime
A $35 thin client? Testing the RaspberryPi as a thin client on a Server 2008 terminal server
Linux Terminal: pidstat, know everything about your processes
General / Miscellaneous
Microsoft’s “Children of the 90s” IE ad is a nostalgic trip back in time
Google+ surpasses Twitter to take number 2 social network after Facebook
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