<p>Wow, I must say it is hard writing blog posts, doing freelance work, and being crazy busy at my day job. I’ve got one post in the works, and hopefully I will be able to finish it up next week. Here is what I found interesting last week (and the beginning of this week):</p>

<ul><li><a href="http://nettuts.com/javascript-ajax/adding-form-validation-to-wordpress-comments-using-jquery/">Adding Form Validation to WordPress Comments using jQuery</a>
<p>I had actually been considering writing a post like this. With a just a few short lines of JavaScript, you give users a much better experience when trying to submit a comment. (Note: see my comment form as another example.)</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.zeldman.com/2008/07/14/your-us-tax-dollars-at-work/">Your US tax dollars at work</a>
<p>So the <a href="http://www.cra.org/ccc/">Computing Community Consortium</a> launched their website the other day, at it was a blatant rip-off of <a href="http://alistapart.com/">A List Apart</a>. They have since changed it, but you can <a href="http://floatingsun.net/2008/07/13/inspiration-or-imitation">check out the screenshots here</a>. It wasn’t even like they just designed it to look similar, they straight up stole the mark-up and CSS. I will say that the CCC handled it correctly, but how did they let it happen in the first place?</p>
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</ul><ul><li><a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2008/07/wordpress-26-tyner/">WordPress 2.6</a>
<p>The WordPress team was able to launch version 2.6 a month before it was supposed to! Not any huge differences, but there are some nice small changes. I would recommend taking a few minutes to watch the video. I love the redesigned plugins page and the post revisions.</p>
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<li><a href="http://alistapart.com/issues/263">A List Apart: Issue 263</a>
<p>Only one real article in this issue: <a href="http://alistapart.com/articles/walkingthelinewhenyouworkfromhome">Walking the Line When You Work from Home</a>, but it is a great article describing how to succeed while working at home.</p>
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