The summer is near its end and I think it's a good time to see what was hot during past three months. There was enormous number of great articles which made me spend a lot of time selecting the best of the best.
In this article I'll focus on web development, such as jQuery, ASP.NET, SEO and in the next article we'll see what was hot in web design.
So here we go:
Ajax, JavaScript and jQuery
1. The Complete Guide for You to Become an Almighty jQuery Developer
2. Add Ratings, Polls and Reviews in Minutes Without Programming
3. 15 Resources To Get You Started With jQuery From Scratch
4. 25 Excellent Ajax Techniques and Examples
5. dwImageProtector Plugin for jQuery
6. Create a Slick Tabbed Content Area using CSS & jQuery
7. Creating a Slick Auto-Playing Featured Content Slider
8. Evening Tip: Use jQuery To Retrieve Data From An XML File
9. jQuery.UI Messenger\Outlook like message notification Widget
10. Creating a fading header
11. Easily build powerful client-side AJAX paging, using jQuery
12. Periodical Ajax Requests Using MooTools 1.2
13. CSS Sprites2 - It's JavaScript Time
ASP.NET
14. 25 Resources for Tuning Your .NET Application Performance
15. 3 mistakes to avoid when using jQuery with ASP.NET AJAX
16. ASP.NET gets no Respect
17. ASP.NET Performance Tips
18. How to Send Trackback and Pingback Requests in ASP.NET
19. Master-Detail with the GridView, DetailsView and jQuery's ThickBox
20. Localize text in JavaScript files in ASP.NET
21. Improve Web Application Performance
SEO
22. 30 one minute ways of optimizing your website for more traffic and higher sales
23. 78 Essential Search Engine Marketing & SEO Resources!
24. 10 Usability Sins that Make me Bounce and Never Come Back
General resources
25. Why I Am No Longer Supporting IE6
26/27. 7 Websites No Website Developer Should Be Without and 7 More Sites Strictly for Web Developers
28. 15 Quick Ways to Shrink Page Load Times
29. Metrosexual Developers
30. Should Links Open In New Windows?
31. Developing a better CMS
I wanted to keep this list as short as possible, otherwise there could be a hundreds of great articles. So, if I missed some good article, please let me know. Maybe there will be a need for more list like this one.
Janko is a UI designer, software engineer, blogger, speaker and artist. You can read more about him and warp speed blog here.