Daily Links
Daily Links are mostly external links that I find interesting throughout the day. You can see the full list at delicious. I generally post an excerpt, or comments, or both. Enjoy the randomness.
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August 31, 2010
- Let's build bigger banquet tables | Rachel Held Evans
- "That is the question at the heart of this crisis, and as we struggle together to answer it, I am convinced that what we don’t need is bigger buildings or fancier sound equipment, better pastors or more parishioners, newer ministries or deeper pockets. What we need is bigger banquet tables."
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August 27, 2010
- small is plenty « the carnival in my head
- Thoughts on why small things really are enough, in life, church, ministry, and so on. There's a great deal of depth (though it isn't guaranteed and can be missing from small things) that is available to us when we do small things, and these are beautiful.
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August 25, 2010
- The Parent Company Trap – The Daily Show with Jon Stewart – 08/23/2010 – Video Clip | Comedy Central
- "Fox News is either evil or stupid for not mentioning that Alwaleed bin Talal is News Corp.'s largest shareholder."
- Alex McManus » Blog Archive » The Cart and the Horse
- "We oftentimes proceed as if Jesus and Paul focused on evangelism and they did not. They didn’t focus on church planting either. They focused on discipleship. Neither evangelism nor church planting happen without disciples."
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August 20, 2010
- Beyond City Limits – By Parag Khanna | Foreign Policy
- "Cities — not so-called failed states like Afghanistan and Somalia — are the true daily test of whether we can build a better future or are heading toward a dystopian nightmare."
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August 19, 2010
- the best part of wanting to change the world « eugene cho
- "The best part of wanting to change the world…is that you get changed in the process." This is a powerful read for me, especially since I can relate to parts of it and hope to relate to other parts of it.
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August 15, 2010
- RGBa & HSLa CSS Generator for Internet Explorer | Journal | Kimili
- This generates IE-specific CSS filters (that you can load with a conditional comment) to cause IE to support RGBa color, which is one of my favorite parts of CSS3.
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August 13, 2010
- jQuery Mobile | jQuery Mobile
- "A unified user interface system across all popular mobile device platforms, built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI foundation."
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August 03, 2010
- A List Apart: Articles: No One Nos: Learning to Say No to Bad Ideas
- "Each one of us brings an area of specialization to our projects, and it is our responsibility to exhibit that expertise. If you don’t know anything that no one else on your team knows, then it’s probably time to walk away. But if you do, it is your duty to assert that capability and share your knowledge for the betterment of the final product."
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July 28, 2010
- Derek Powazek – Thoughts on Designing for iPad
- Some early thoughts from leading the design team on an iPad app. I think it's important for us to gather these thoughts and learn from them as this environment begins fruition.
- Daring Fireball: An Improved Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs
- A solid regular expression for URL matching. Invaluable to have around, easy to forget about.
- RFC (2)822 & 3696 Email Address Parser in PHP
- A pattern for validating email addresses in PHP.
- Mobile-friendly: The mobile web optimization guide – Opera Developer Community
- "This article provides an overview of three different strategies to make your websites work across all devices. We'll call them "mobile-aware" websites, as they're not specifically for mobile sites, but they will work on mobile, as well as across different alternative browsing devices. These strategies are not mutually exclusive; you can mix and match as your project, budget and sanity allows."
- Creating Cross Browser HTML5 Forms Now, Using modernizr, webforms2 and html5Widgets
- This allows all browsers to support HTML5 form elements. Several browsers support various parts natively and it won't mess with this, but overall support is still sketchy and this helps resolve that for now.
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July 27, 2010
- America's god is dying – ABC Religion & Ethics – Opinion
- Brilliant words from Stanley Hauerwas on why America's god is just that: an American god, and further that this god is dying. Beyond that, he indicates why this is such a good thing.
