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• Having fun with Canvas talks about balancing DOM and Canvas use in websites.

• Underware demos Liza, an adaptive typeface (Live Script) that contains many variations for each letter.

• Limonade is an über-small PHP web framework.

• The definitive list of MIME media types. I always takes me a few minutes to find this list.

• Everything I Learned About Game Design I Learned From Disneyland, a tangent (but useful) source of inspiration for game and application design.

• The new Hero smartphone, an Android device from HTC, is a great example of their ability to polish user interfaces (and a great example of what Android is capable of).

• Is CLOS reall OO? A classic USENET style rant about C++’s OO authenticity versus Lisp’s. Having learned dozens of languages since C++, I agree: C++ is a workable (but warty) tool that’s more work to develop in than most other languages. (Thanks John).

• Twitter’s evolving architecture looks at the caching and other tools used to support their growing capacity.

• Are you a Polymath?

• almost.at is a beautiful Twitter and other twitch service aggregator, styled to look like an OS X application. Not only does it look great, it has a slick way of showing news as it happens.

• BWToolkit 1.2, an update to the excellent Interface Builder toolkit. Adds hyperlinked buttons, styled text fields, transparent buttons, and other wondrous bits.

• Fever° is a commercial RSS reader sold as a server-side package. I hope this model works, as it's an alternative to running mammoth web services.

• Adam Savage’s Colossal Failures, a talk at Maker Faire about how failure is actually cool.

• Cocoa Dev Central, a brilliant set of ObjectiveC and Cocoa tutorials, including style guidelines. Clearly written, and simple to follow.

• The Palm Pre Linux distribution and other system software dissected.

• Pylot is a tool for measuring the performance and capacity of web services.

• On Text Editors asks: is anyone finding tools like Coda and Espresso productive? I wonder too if I just don't get the workflow of the newer generation of editors, or if maybe they're not fully baked yet?

• REST worst practices, a guide on what not to do when working towards a RESTful design. While I still find most articles about REST a bit stuffy, it’s a good design principle to learn.

• Memcpy concurrency curiousitiies, an interesting look at how memcpy handles concurrency.

• CS193P – Cocoa Programming course materials, an incredible set of lectures and PDFs from Stanford online.

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