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		<title>Top 10 links for December Week 1 &#8211; 2008</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the first installment of our top 10 links for the week &#8211; a selection of 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.


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here is the first installment of our top 10 links for the week &#8211; a selection of 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.<strong><br />
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<li><a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/12/02/10-useful-rss-hacks-for-wordpress/" target="_blank">10 Useful RSS-Tricks and Hacks for Wordpress &#8211; Smashingmagazine</a><strong><br />
</strong>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.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-php-5goodhabits/index.html?ca=dgr-jw64os-php-5goodhabits&amp;S_TACT=105AGY46&amp;S_CMP=GRsitejw64" target="_blank">5 good programming habits in PHP</a><br />
General rules of thumbs for php programmers.   Some of the rules may make you think twice, like the rule of &#8220;Never copy and paste&#8221;.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.dailyblogtips.com/what-is-more-important-to-succeed-online-business-or-technical-skills/" target="_blank">What is More Important To Succeed Online:  Business or Technical Skills?</a><br />
A question for the ages, at least in the IT field, is it more important to be business or technical minded?  A very interesting article on how these skills have attributed to the success of several companies.</li>
<li><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10114050-2.html?part=rss&amp;tag=feed&amp;subj=Webware" target="_blank">Firefox 3.1 beta news &#8211; web workers</a><br />
A CNET article on Firefox 3.1.  The interesting part is how &#8220;web workers&#8221; can process work in the background.  Background processing would push the RIA movement further and I&#8217;m sure would lead to some very novel ideas from early adopters.</li>
<li><a href="http://nettuts.com/articles/news/how-to-setup-a-dedicated-web-server-for-free/" target="_blank">How to Setup a Dedicated Web Server for free &#8211; with Ubuntu</a><br />
A practical and useful article on how to setup a web server.  This is a very well written article that shows how far Linux has come in terms of ease of use.</li>
<li><a href="http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2008/12/how-to-use-twit.html" target="_blank">How to use Twitter as a tool</a><br />
An article by Guy Kawasaki on how to use Twitter for productivity.  It&#8217;s a very detailed post and for those new to Twitter, it explains the utility factor of Twitter beyond just being a gossip tool.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/12/03/online-advertising-and-its-impact-on-web-design/" target="_blank">Online Advertising and Its Impact on Web Design</a><br />
An excellent article from Smashing Magazine on how online advertising affects web design.  It&#8217;s an interesting topic as web advertising is a primary means of revenue for the majority of blogs.</li>
<li><a href="http://nettuts.com/articles/web-roundups/top-10-biggest-web-dev-blunders-of-2008/" target="_blank">Top 10 Web Dev Blunders of 2008</a><br />
A list of some of the biggest &#8220;mistakes&#8221; we&#8217;ve seen on the web this year.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/02/who-protects-the-internet/" target="_blank">Who Protects The Internet?</a><br />
Who does protect the Internet?  This article should be of interest to anyone who uses the Internet, so that&#8217;s a lot of people.  Techcrunch takes a go at reviewing where we are with the Internet.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.dailyblogtips.com/referrer-detector-wordpress-plugin/" target="_blank">Referrer Detector Wordpress Plugin</a><br />
A great wordpress tool to greet your users coming from specific sites.</li>
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<p>I hope you find these articles useful.  You can contribute your own links by visiting this <a href="http://www.buncholinks.com/p/andreliem/decweek1top">buncholink</a> which groups related links together in a useful manner.</p>
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