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Is there a difference? Is optimized code better than optimized markup? Which should programmers (for the web) be striving for? If there is a major difference, should mainstream programmers be re-learning the tricks of the trade when they start programming for the web?

Vlog 2.1: Videoblogging with Blogger: Now THAT would be cool with WordPress!!

End of the article graphic plugin: Terrible excuse for a plugin, but still very fun. Via BlogginPro

Complete Digital Photography >> Creating an Image Gallery: Create an image gallery as a WordPress post on the fly using folders from a picture on your server. Very nifty. This was my vision for Pictorialis II.

I ran into this recently where I really needed to use the LIMIT qualifier in some SQL queries and found out that there really is no equivalent in MS SQL, which is irritating. In thinking about it and searching through the web, I think I have come up with a workaround that would work well if you were not dealing with millions of records. Try this instead: SELECT TOP 20 * from table_blah WHERE index NOT IN (SELECT TOP 10 index from table_blah ORDER BY index) ORDER BY index instead of the LIMIT 10,20

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EXPRESSIONS – A hosted Photoblogging tool that reminds me of Movable Type photoblogs and the code/links look like a highly hacked MT installation.