Its a new month! And guess what else? X-Men Origins: Wolverine is finally out. We get to see him battle it out against Sabretooth. And Gambit is in it. And I think we’re going to see Emma Frost too! I’m really stoked and I hope the movie is amazing. If not, I will be disappointed for a week until Star Trek comes out. There are so many great movies coming out! OH! And this weekend is BarCampLA 7! You should definitely head out and go. Anyways, links!

Design

• Become an Illustration Master – +60 Adobe Illustrator Tutorials and Resources: A great list of sites out there to help with Illustrator.
• 10 Top Skills for Web Design: I don’t necessarily agree with the order but the skills are definitely correct.
• 30 Essential PDF Documents Every Designer Should Download: There are several of these that I had from a long time ago. This is a good round up of them and more.
• 40 Outstanding CSS Techniques And Tutorials: These are truly outstanding and you’ll see some of them in some future work!

Development

• Cornify Easter Egg Plugin with jQuery: Probably one of the funniest things ever. I want to do something similar to this on all the websites we do. Well maybe just ours. Make some epic battle scene occur.
• 20 More Excellent AJAX Effects You Should Know: Its always nice to see the great things you can do.
• 13 Excellent jQuery Animation Techniques: I love how there are ways to make things all nifty and awesome and don’t require using Flash.
• A Better Way to Understand Cloud Computing: A good place to start to learn about Cloud Computing.
• 20 Excellent JavaScript Navigation Techniques and Examples: A lot of these are really pretty and I haven’t seen them all.

Business & Freelancing

• How to Make Customers Love You: 5 Steps that Zappos utilizes to be the awesome company that they are.
• Thoughts on Design Integrity. Getting What you Want from Your Client: Really good discussion.
• A Guide to Self-Employment: Click the link to the Slide Show at the bottom. Very well worth it!
• 50 Simple Marketing Ideas All Freelancers Can Use: A good start off point. There are more than enough choices, just pick the ones that work best for you.

Nerdy Geeky Entertaining

• The Konami Code Makes ESPN.com Magical: The fact that this was true, and I was able to do it before ESPN become smart and took it down, makes me epic-ly happy.
• Software Engineering Proverbs: I now know why I saw these all over the whiteboards in my AP Comp Sci classes in High School.
• A Short Illustrated History of the Nerd: Ever wonder where nerds came from?
• 10 Bizarre But Useful Appliance Combinations: The Tea Maker & Life Line is a funny one.
• Cyanide and Happiness:  This made me smile =)

Absolute Fail

• Swine Flu JPG: funny little picture.

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