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Recipes for Avoiding Spaghetti Code: Best Practices & Guidelines for developers & designers.  The visual term “Spaghetti Code” comes from unstructured code, usually created by junior developers, which is difficult to extend and time consuming to maintain.  Developers & Designers can adopt Best Practices early to create Guidelines that will increase development time and decrease cost.

Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site

The Exceptional Yahoo Performance team has identified a number of best practices for making web pages fast. The list includes 34 best practices divided into 7 categories.  [Learn More]

Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site by Yahoo

http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html

Yahoo! Design Pattern Library

This Yahoo library shares user interface patterns with the web design and development community. Yahoo has 50 patterns today and more on the way. [Learn More]

http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/

PEAR Coding Standards (including Docblock Comments)

The source code of PEAR packages are read by thousands of people. Also, it is likely other people will become developers on your package at some point in the future. Therefore, it is important to make life easier for everyone by formatting the code and docblocks in standardized ways. People can then quickly find the information they are looking for because it is in the expected location. [Learn More]

PEAR Coding Standards (including Docblock Comments)

http://pear.php.net/manual/en/standards.sample.php

Zend Programmer’s Reference Guide

Coding standards are important in any development project, but they are particularly important when many developers are working on the same project. Coding standards help ensure that the code is high quality, has fewer bugs, and can be easily maintained. [Learn More]

Zend Programmer's Guide

http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/coding-standard.html

W3C Markup Validation Service

This W3C validator checks the markup validity of Web documents in HTML, XHTML, SMIL, MathML, etc. [Learn More]

W3C Markup Validation Service

http://validator.w3.org/

Avoiding Spaghetti Code & the Mess That Can Follow

These are my five favorite resources to help avoid “Spaghetti Code”.  There are plenty more resources available on the web, I hope you find these helpful.  I am thinking more about Ravioli (encapsulated code) and Lasagna (modular code with logic layers).  I hope to find the time to write about this, but I would also like to hear your thoughts on code development “Best Practices” & Guidelines.

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Tim Berners-Lee — Linked Data TED 2009 Conference Presentation

Linked data will transform “Hits” to “Results”.  See the full presentation slides here.

The Semantic Web isn’t just about putting data on the web. It is about making links, so that a person or machine can explore the web of data.  With linked data, when you have some of it, you can find other, related, data. Read More

#TED Talk Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web

20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he’s building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together. Link

You can also follow Sir Tim Berners-Lee on Twitter @Timberners_lee

Advance the Web. Empower People.

WWW Foundation

Take a look at Tim’s new project “World Wide Web Foundation”

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web, the World Wide Web Foundation is an international, not-for-profit organization that leads transformative programs to advance the Web as a medium that empowers people to bring about positive change. Learn more here http://www.webfoundation.org/ Follow this project on Twitter @webfoundation.

I’m so excited about attending Web 2.0 Summit 2009, but more on that later.  I want to share some of these amazing conversations from the Web 2.0 Summit 2008 with you.  Have you ever asked yourself what is the web really about?  How does Social Media work and what does it mean to me?  How does Web 2.0 impact the world?  Can we use the web to solve real world issues?  What’s next?

Web 2.0 Summit 2009

I am fortunate enough to work for a company that believes understanding the future of technology is important.  I will be attending the Web 2.0 Summit 2009 thanks to Booz Allen Hamilton.  This event will gather the greatest thought leaders from around  the world for engaging conversations about how to put the power of this platform we call the web to work for positive change.  Understanding this platform’s core philosophies of collective intelligence, openness, & transparency will lead us into new business models and into a new era.  I hope to see you there!

Get more details about and register for the Web 2.0 Summit 2009 here.

Web 2.0 Summit 2008

The theme for the Web 2.0 summit 2008 was “Web Meets World”.  A lot of the conversation was about how the web is reshaping the fabric of society.  Tim O’Reilly through O’Reilly Media has been gracious enough to share many of these conversations in video format.  You can also subscribe to these video through iTunes.  I have many of these video on my iPhone and enjoy watching them as I’m standing in line or just need to get my geek fix on the go.  I have included a few video here, but I encourage you to visit the Web 2.0 Summit 2008 site for videos, images, reviews, &  much more information from these great thinkers.  When using Apple iTunes to subscribe and download these videos to your iPod, iTouch, or iPhone, be sure to check out the one that discusses the difference between user genterated content and collective intelligence (my favorite).

Web 2.0 Summit: Social Media Behaviors by Isaac Mao (Social Brain Foundation)

The Social Media fabric is woven with Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 to form collaborative media.  Listen to this quick talk about “Sharisum” and micro-content.  The explosion of connections, contents, and social filtering are explored as we move through media industry changes.

Web 2.0 Summit: Cloud Computing – The Future Web

Cloud computing, an optimized delivery channel for offering software and infrastructure as a service.  The cloud model creates many very exciting opportunities.

Web 2.0 Summit: The Platform Advantage

See and hear what the leaders from Google, Microsoft, Facebook, MySpace, and Slide have to say about the platform advantage.  Stimulating new economics from the explosive growth of business models around platform services.  The “Open Web” is re-defining “Innovation”.   I believe we should increase our awareness of the internet is a platform as we move forward with our information architecture.

Web 2.0 Summit: Web 3.0 Semantic Web – Intelligent Applications

Leaders from Radar Networks, Powerset, Metaweb discuss how new technologies use relationships to organize information.

Web 2.0 Summit: Internet & Tech Trends by Mary Meeker

Reviewing this information reminded me of a previous post about Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide by Amy Shuen, take a look.

Get more details about and register for the Web 2.0 Summit 2009 here.

1. Are you attending Web 2.0 Summit 2009?
2. Have you attended a previous Web 2.0 Summit?
3. What are your tips for attendees?

A few posts back we talked about that amazing book by Joshua Porter, titled: Designing for the Social Web. If you are thinking about designing anything around social media, then I strongly recommend reading Joshua’s book. You can learn more about that here Learn the secrets of a SUCCESSFUL Enterprise 2.0 Social Media project.

I have found this information very helpful & insightful, I hope it can help you too.

JOSHUA PORTER: BUILDING SOCIAL MEDIA WEB SITES, SXSW 2008

DESIGN FOR COMMUNITY IN SOCIAL MEDIA

SOCIAL MEDIA AND DESIGNING FOR SIGN-UP

LEVERAGING COGNITIVE BIAS IN SOCIAL DESIGN

There are so many resources for Social Media Strategy and Enterprise 2.0. This is especially true when we are trying to find quality information about technology strategies after the hype sets in about these technologies. It seems like everyone has something to say about Social Media, Enterprise 2.0 E2.0, Web 2.0, and even Government 2.0 Gov2.0 these days.

You may be a little busy with your day and find it difficult to keep up on these web strategy trends about social media. You may have a couple of other things going on that keep you from learning how to implement Enterprise 2.0 Solutions or how to incorporate Web 2.0 features into your social platform to increase the Collective Intelligence of your Social Media Platform.

I’m rather busy every day too, but I am religious about reading my RSS Feeds. I use Google Reader to subscribe to feeds of some of the best minds in our industry. I just wanted to share some of my top picks with you here and if you know of others, please let me know.

Top 5 Feeds for Tips on Enterprise 2.0 & Web Strategy

Andrew P. McAfee

I met Andrew P. McAfee several months ago and was impressed with his understanding about REAL WORLD Enterprise 2.0. I am stalking him on Twitter and really appreciate all his activity in the Enterprise 2.0 (E2.0) world.

Subscribe to Andy’s Feed

Jeremiah Owyang

Jeremiah Owyang does a great job at delivering user and community needs, business goals, and web technology to craft and deliver long term successful web programs for companies. I also recommend following him on Twitter.

Subscribe to Jeremiah’s Feed

Steve Radick

I work with Steve, so I was thinking about not including him in this list, but his passion for Social Media especially in the Government 2.0 World is contagious. Steve’s strong background in change management, strategic communications, and stakeholder engagement strategy and implementation along with all his relentless activity in the world of Social Media forced me to add him to this list. I really believe that Steve never sleeps. He is very connected into the Social Media Community and has a lot to say. I dare you to follow him on Twitter.

Subscribe to Steve’s Feed

The Media 2.0 Workgroup

The Media 2.0 Workgroup is a group of industry commentators, agitators and innovators who believe that the phenomena of democratic participation will change the face of media creation, distribution and consumption. Join the conversation…

Subscribe to The Media 2.0 Workgroup Feed

Intel 3.0

The vision for this blog will be the intersection of research / intelligence and social media. Traditional media and traditional research methods are being supplanted by new analytic tools that focus on social media – blogs, discussion fora, social networking sites. Here, I’ll present and discuss the new research tools as they become available, and how traditional research methods are evolving to remain relevant in the advent of new media.

Subscribe to Intel 3.0 Feed

I hope you subscribe to this site too!

Subscribe to Tips on Enterprise 2.0 with Web 2.0 Feed

Follow me on Twitter

What blogs do you subscribe to?

The strategy for a SUCCESSFUL social web project is CLEARLY explained in “designing for the social web”.

Joshua Porter did a great job in each and every part of this book including colorful images to help convey key points so you can easily understand and create your successful social web strategy.

I work as a professional technology consultant and have been working the social web before it got all it’s cool buzz words. I’m sure you have heard them too, Web 2.0, AJAX, Rails, Social Media, E2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Gov2.0, Cloud Computing, & many more. Next time you hear someone talking about Enterprise 2.0 (E2.0) or any other buzzword of the day, ask them what it means. “What is Enterprise 2.0?” If they start talking about ajax, sharepoint, php, or other technology, then ask someone else. Now, don’t get me wrong, I love all these buzz words, they help get all our hard work in the voice of mainstream media. The buzz & hype of the social web force some things to market before they are ready or ever needed. This IS NOT the case with Designing for the Social Web. This book was carefully crafted for your enjoyment.

There are a lot of books, blogs, software, and other resources about the social web. Most of these are based on theory or focused a certain technology. Josh shares his expertise from the REAL WORLD with a focus on WHY! I hope you don’t make a mistake by not reading this book.

Please invest the cost of a couple cups of coffee into yourself and read this book.

Have you read this book? Tell us what you think.

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