'Equation Bookshelf' is a simple idea of to divide things in priority order... put together the books that you need immediately or more important between (parentheses)! Set others between [square brackets] and{braces}.

From: http://estudiobreder.blogspot.com/2007/11/equation-bookshelf.html

From the web developer perspective I can understand why these solutions are used; they're easy to control. Computers don't know what to expect so they will accept more or less everything -- databases won't.

If a user is typing her phone number with spaces or land code a simple integer-field in your database won't do much good. But that's your problem, not the users. Chances are that they couldn't care less about your database setup, nor should they! Most users will type their phone number in a way that they can easily check to see if it's correct. Some of them will even type it with spaces in order to make it easier for you to read when you're trying to contact them. After all, the user did bother to fill out a form and likely she wants to get something in return -- like a call.

The key to a good form is to be as simple and concise as possible. Fill out this form and then move on. Simplicity is key! If you've done a good job with your forms the users might even not notice that they've filled out a form. Sharing information, such as e-mail address or a phone number, is key to starting a dialogue. Once that first step has been taken the rest should be easy -- the user has shown interest.

Small snippets of code work miracles, if they're only good for you and your database chances are that they're no good at all. Technology is only useful when it's helping people. Remember that you and your site are dependent on your visitors. Why not be nice to them?

No more of the scavenging! I've collected some of my most useful code snippets, gathered them in one place for everyone to see and enjoy. Some of the code snippets are from PHP.net user comments and some are hand crafted by yours truly. Feel free to browse the collection and if you have any useful additions to it I would love to hear about them in a comment. 

I have tried my best to give credit where due, but nobody's perfect and I would really appreciate it if anyone has any comments as to where the snippets are from. Feel free to use the snippets wherever you like, a small comment as to where you found the snippet would be considered as an added bonus on my part.  Have look-see at http://hvassing.com/snippets/.

Comments about improvements, critique or additional snippets would be much appreciated.

In the beginning it'll be located on the left hand side of the site, just below the search-field. If anyone has any thoughts about how it works or if it doesn't work at all - just let me know.

In Roman mythology, Ceres was the goddess of growing plants (particularly cereals) and of motherly love. Her name derives from the Proto-Indo-European root "ker", meaning "to grow", which is also the root for the words "create" and "increase".

The second word I bought was backpack, which I gave to Jason Fried, the company founder of 37Signals. Not sure why, just seemed like a good idea to give it to him rather than having someone else buying it and sell it for a hefty sum later on.

John Gruber bought Fireball (go figure) and Jiminy. What did you buy?

If you like typography and graphic design, have a look at The Helvetica Film and maybe pre-order a copy of your own.

Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture.

With iTunes 7.2, preview and purchase iTunes Plus music—new higher-quality, DRM-free music downloads from participating music labels.

The update is a part of the new iTunes Plus -- see the press release.

Apple® today launched iTunes® Plus—DRM-free music tracks featuring high quality 256 kbps AAC encoding for audio quality virtually indistinguishable from the original recordings—for just $1.29 per song.

Now they're one step closer to satisfying the Norwegian consumer organisation in terms of sharing music across different devices.