Found this slick little app for validations, Validator S.A.C. I generally would use the one built into FireFox’s Web Developer toolbar or FireBug, but they don’t work for websites running locally. To validate local sites, I would have to go to W3C’s validation website and copy n’ paste my local code. Now I can open this little app with a quick Spotlight keystoke and drag n’ drop files directly on it to validate. They can even be dragged directly from my TextMate sidebar. Cheers to Chuck Houpt!

A List Apart’s now annual, Survey For People Who Make Websites is now out. If you’re one of those people that has any hand in the process of building a site, please take it. The results of their inaugural survey last year were very interesting and I am looking forward to seeing this year’s.

The free Wordpress iPhone application is now out, and I am posting this from it right now. Looks like a pretty simple and intuitive interface. The only thing I don’t see here that I would like is an easier way to format the copy. Writing out the HTML by hand on this keyboard is quite a chore. It does make adding photos a snap though. Below is a screenshot of me drafting this post that I have attached.

Update: Looks like some things still need to be worked out with it. I’m not sure if it is an issue with the app or my server, but the image hasn’t posted properly.

Update2: Definitely a setting on my end. Should be smooth sailing from here on out

Google just introduced Doctype, a new wiki-style encyclopedia by web developers, for web developers. Looks to be a valuable resource, and has been added to my personal bookmarks. I especially like that they list browser compatibility for all of the CSS properties.

Check it out »

Google Doctype is an open encyclopedia and reference library. Written by web developers, for web developers. It includes articles on web security, JavaScript DOM manipulation, CSS tips and tricks, and more. The reference section includes a growing library of test cases for checking cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility.

Google Doctype is 100% open.

• Open source
• Open content
• Open to contributions from anyone

Making us nerds look a little cooler…

While doing some grooming of my music library and updating the contents of my DLPs over the past weekend I saw this in my iTunes sidebar, and I thought It’d be nice to share. Some call it an obsession, some call it fanboyism, and I think it is just awesomeness. (But probably more of the first two)