Review of A Book Apart editions; HTML5 For Web Designers & CSS3 For Web Designers. Plus a book giveaway!

Talking about hiring practices and how helping others to help yourself is good business.

12 pieces of advice for bringing in new business. Keeping your calendar full and your business moving ahead, by doing a little bit to create new opportunities every day.

We’re giving away sticker packs to our readers come and claim one, sponsored by the awesome Sticker Mule.

Review of 8 Faces, the Magazine about typefaces and the people who create them, by Elliot Jay Stocks.

Get to know Emily Lewis a little better. Microformats master and author of ‘Microformats Made Simple’ will also be speaking at the In Control Conference in February.

User Experience is so much more than the stuff we do. And certainly it is more than our collective assumptions, failings and shortcomings. It has far more to do with relationship skills than coding & design skills.

Review of Jason Beaird’s new 2nd edition book & we’re also going to give away a copy to one of our readers!

Talking about what we can expect at the In Control Web Design Conference with Christopher Schmitt founder and producer.

Explore building a trivial particle system with Processing.js.

HTML5 is not the future. HTML5 is now. A lot of people are already using HTML5 and you should be too.

Talking about web fonts & the font pairing service Konstellations with Kernest founder Garrick Van Buren.

Talking invoicing tips and techniques for getting paid on time and more often with John Coates of FreshBooks.

A 10-minute introduction to Node.js and its asynchronous event-driven development model. Using the simple “Hello, world.” example provided in the project documentation, also look at more of its API & objects.

Trent is a man who likes to keep active in the web design community. I asked him if he would spend a short break with me to go over his most recent projects, from Design Swap & Lost World’s Fairs to The Many Faces Of he has a few.

Ever wondered what test driven development was all about, check out QUnit a jQuery project that helps you do just that.