Excellent CSS Tutorials on Selectors, Lists & Floats
April 17, 2008 — vincenthome
Learn CSS Positioning in Ten Steps: position static relative absolute float
April 17, 2008 — vincenthome 
Via Learn CSS Positioning in Ten Steps: position static relative absolute float
Also, CSS Positioning & the Box Model
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November 13, 2007 — vincenthomeEverything About REST Web Services - What and How - Part 1 - The Code Project - Design and Architecture
November 12, 2007 — vincenthome
Introduction
REST stands for Representational State Transfer. A Yahoo or Google search on “REST web services” brings up tons of information. But if you are like what I was a few weeks ago – you will probably find all that information more annoying than helpful, because you want to create a REST web service in a hurry. We have, consciously or not, all become very used to tailor made instructions from the internet – and we love nothing more than a step by step guide to do something. Evil as much as it is, a “how-to” guide is all we love to dig out. In this particular web search, I was denied just that.
Soon I found out that writing a REST web service has no shortcuts – you have to first fully understand what REST is. I have a wonderful analogy – think of a C++ or JAVA or .NET newbie trying to find a spoon feeding article on “How to do object oriented design”. Well, good luck! REST is just that – experts coin it as an “architectural style” – but I am writing this article in my own words, so I will steer clear of stuff that confused me in the first place. I think REST is where architecture and design merge, and the thin line between the two disappears.
Let us get straight to business. I will start with what a traditional web service developer who has no idea about REST needs to know. I will not start shooting jargons at the beginning, which is like attempting to create method from chaos. Instead, I will stay methodical the whole way.
This article is Part 2 in my series on REST web services. While the first article introduces REST web services, this one takes us through the process of designing a RESTful web service
The Art of Hyperlinking
November 5, 2007 — vincenthome
- Ensure your links are large enough to easily click
- The first link is the most important one
- Don’t link everything
- Don’t radically alter link behavior
- Don’t title your link “Click Here”
- Don’t link things the user might want to select and copy
- Don’t include icons on every link
- Don’t make your content depend on links to work
- Don’t hide your links
- Don’t mix advertising and links
- Don’t obfuscate your URLs
Via Coding Horror: Don’t Click Here: The Art of Hyperlinking
The Open/Closed Principle
September 10, 2007 — vincenthomeThe principle, which states that a software entity should be open for extension, but closed for modification
