Vietnam National Day, September 2nd

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Quốc kỳ Việt Nam

National Day of Vietnam is celebrated on 2nd of September. September 2nd in Vietnam symbolizes the August 1945 Revolution and Vietnam National Day. On this day in 1945 President Ho Chi Minh had solemnly read the Declaration of Independence in Vietnam at Ba Dinh Square in Hanoi. With this he proclaimed the birth of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. This event marked the beginning of a new era for the Vietnamese nation.
On the National Day of Vietnam, the people and the leaders in Vietnam pay tribute to the national hero Ho Chi Minh and acknowledge his contribution towards the independence of Vietnam. This day is celebrated not only in Vietnam but also in all Vietnamese Embassies across the world as it is one of the foremost Vietnamese festivals & events.

Best of August 2009

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best of the monthStart from August 2009, every month we take a look at new tutorials, tips, articles and techniques presented in Web-Development-related blogs and magazines and collect them for you. Below an overview of the best tools and articles, which have become popular or were published in August 2009.

CSS and HTML tools

  • Powerful and Userful CSS Tools to saving your time - Most would probably agree that CSS is one of the most important parts of modern standards based web design. CSS is really simple and extremely powerful if you know how to master it… if your new to CSS getting started can be quite hard.  CSS is the thing that makes websites beautiful, without CSS everything would look sad and unatractive. This is why I have collected Powerful and Userful CSS Tools to reduce your work time. I hope this article will help you all to get more out of CSS in your web projects.

Social News: Re-Direct Target Link

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Social News: Re-Direct Target Link

Social News: Re-Direct Target Link

The social news is website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by submitting links and stories, and voting and commenting on submitted links and stories. Are you know Digg, DZone, Reddit, Slackdot .... these ard social news.

The links and stories which submited on the social news has a separate page. That page allows others can comment on the content and vote for the quality of content, save or send to others ... That page will appear when you click on the link of stories from feed reader. I've wrote a greasemonkey scripts for firefox allow the browser automatic redirect it to target link.

Feature:

  • Automatic redirect the links page to target link
  • Reduce time to click on the target link.
  • Support digg.com, dzone.com and linkhay.com, more comming soon.

What makes you unsubscribe from a blog’s RSS feed?

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I Unsubscribed

I Unsubscribed

Darren put a an entry asking why makes you unsubscribe from feed reading and the response went overwhelmed. Below are some ideas of responses of messages which I listed from that article.

 

A reference you might need if you noticed a reducing in your feed readers.

  1. When the blogger doesn’t post for a very long time - I feel like the site is ‘dead’.
  2. When the posting consists of short updates with no real content. eg, “hi just letting everyone know i won’t be posting tomorrow.”
  3. Rehashing the same popular things that are already posted on blogs of a similar genre
  4. I can read regular news on newspapers or dedicated websites (BBC, CNN, etc.). I can read commentary though, but thoughtful ones, that helps me think or see something differently.
  5. I usually subscribe for a while to see what kind of content is being posted, what the blog is about, and then decide if I want to continue. Even if the content is very entertaining and of very high quality, I have to be interested in the topic. And that does not mean “one” topic.
  6. Too many links interspersed throughout the text.
  7. Too much text, without proper use of whitespace.
  8. Too Many Grammatical Errors.
  9. Excessively long posts
  10. Multiple posts in a day
  11. Low quality posts are a good reason to un-subscribe. I don’t like to waste my time.
  12. I don’t want to be de-motivated. I want to be inspired. Negative messages, even if they are true, are not good for me.
  13. Lots of personal rants and stuff. I am not interested in the details of other people’s personal lives. I am more interested in thoughts and ideas.
  14. No Images in the feed
  15. Too many quotes
  16. Found other feeds that are better
  17. Too much self-promotion
  18. Incomplete posts. you cannot read them in the feedreader
  19. One blog recently made you click through their sponsor to read anything more than the headline of the article.

Famfamfam Silk icons – the great mini icons for web developer

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famfamfam.com - Silk Icons

famfamfam.com - Silk Icons

“Silk” is a smooth, free icon set, containing over 700 16-by-16 pixel icons in strokably-soft PNG format Containing a large variety of icons, you're sure to find something that tickles your fancy. And all for a low low price of $0.00. You can't say fairer than that.

The Essential Firefox Add-ons for Web Designers

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The Essential Firefox Add-ons for Web Designers

The Essential Firefox Add-ons for Web Designers

Firefox browser has a fully customizable, it allows users to add features needed by the add-ons which can create by third parties developer. As a web developer this functionality is extremely useful to us.

By downloading the best add-ons that are available, you can transform Firefox into a tool that dramatically increases your productivity and saves you a countless amount of time.
I have picked-up some add-ons covering everything from DOM inspection to screenshots, making designing and developing with Firefox a breeze.