Here is the first installment of our top 10 links for the week.  Every week, we will be picking ten links we see as being very useful and important to the web development/business crowd.  This list covers both technical articles for developers and higher level business ones.

10 Useful RSS-Tricks and Hacks for Wordpress - Smashingmagazine
Great tips for any user of wordpress that relies on RSS for syndicating content.  Most of these tips show you how to gain more control over your RSS feeds.
5 good programming habits in PHP
General rules of …

At work the other day, I was forwarded an email with a co-worker asking for my thoughts to a question. The question went along the lines of: “How many emails in a defined time period should we be sending to our customers? How many emails is too many?” My answer? One!

A quiet shift is happening in the world of web design and development - one that has been in the works for a few years, but is now starting to come to fruition: the mobile world is mobilizing to point a whole lot of eyes onto our websites. Our canvas may be shrinking, but the opportunities will continue to grow. Here’s what’s happening in the mobile world that will affect you as a web professional, and what you can do to prepare for the change.

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No matter how small or trivial you may think your project is, you will always benefit from doing at least a little usability testing. Here are five reasons why.

In this post, I will discuss 5 tips and tools that the php community has provided to speed up development time and improve code quality. These should help you out if you don’t already know them, but if you do I would like to hear what you use to speed up your development time.

If you have been following the Zend Framework at all, you’ll know that Dojo has been selected as the UI library to be adopted into the Zend Framework. The question is what does this exactly mean?

Tooltips are nice small additions that can improve the user experience. They are so common that Dojo and other javascript frameworks provide precanned ways of creating them.