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Good testing utility script for building out random data.

“A common step in the development cycle is to substitute fake data until real data is created, generated, or the API is set up to retrieve it. Creating this fake data isn’t usually difficult, but it can be a tedious and repetitive task. Club AJAX has added a new library item to create mock data for use in application development. Using the Club AJAX Randomizer, you can easily generate random numbers, booleans, colors, dates, characters, words, sentences, titles, names, and even website names. Helper functions are also available to scramble or return random elements from your own data.”

via Mock Data Randomizer « Club AJAX – Dallas Ft. Worth Area AJAX Users Group covering: AJAX, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and Design.

“Collecting examples of creative, innovative, and unexpected use of emerging web technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3.”

Good resource.

via HTML5 Watch.

An excellent article on how to make some really dynamic websites that work well on everything from a widescreen monitor to a smartphone held vertically with just CSS and HTML. Read through the whole thing and look at the demos while resizing your browser – wow.

“Fluid grids, flexible images, and media queries are the three technical ingredients for responsive web design, but it also requires a different way of thinking. Rather than quarantining our content into disparate, device-specific experiences, we can use media queries to progressively enhance our work within different viewing contexts. That’s not to say there isn’t a business case for separate sites geared toward specific devices; for example, if the user goals for your mobile site are more limited in scope than its desktop equivalent, then serving different content to each might be the best approach.”

via A List Apart: Articles: Responsive Web Design.

In the Woods – 7 Things I Wish I Had Known About jQuery.

Some great tips about jQuery and efficient use of it.