September's issue contains articles on:

• Wii Gaming with JavaScript
• Beginners Corner: Inline Documentation
• Administrative Systems with YUI
• Sound Manager
• JavaScript Patterns - More Functions
• JavaScript's Equality Operator
• Community News

After reading through the issue, I am impressed with the quality of the articles and would strongly suggest JSMag to any developer that is serious about JavaScript.

Michael Kimsal, the man behind JSMag and GroovyMag, generously provided me with a coupon code for 10 free copies of the September issue to share with others.

Leave a comment requesting a free copy and on Friday (9/4) at 2pm PST, I will randomly select 10 winners.

Congratulations to the 10 winners below!

Enjoy!

What was your first initial impression of the redesign?

Update: Order has been restored and the Rock Star is dead!

"Calling all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyone else who makes websites. It is time once again to pool our information so as to begin sketching a true picture of the way our profession is practiced worldwide."

I just finished taking the A List Apart's 2008 survey for people who make websites. The survey was well done and only took 5-10 minutes to complete. I'm looking forward to seeing the final report based on everyone's feedback!

If your profession is one mentioned above, make sure to provide your feedback!

Basically, Dropbox is another online file sharing service that works with both Mac OS and Windows. Check out the Dropbox home page for a screencast and information about the service. Their FAQ page also has plenty of information.

The beta program includes 2GB of free storage...but sign up now because once the beta is over, new accounts (FREE) are currently slated to receive only 1GB.

If you are interested in “beta testing” Dropbox, I have 9 beta invites remaining. I will send them to the first 9 people who request one.

"Aviary is a suite of rich internet applications geared for artists of all genres. From image editing to typography to music to 3D to video, we have a tool for everything. At Worth1000, we are creating a complex ecosystem for artists and providing the world with free, capable collaborative tools and an approach to collaboration and rights management that will turn the marketplace for online art on its head."

I signed up for an "early bird" invitation months ago and last week, I finally received my invitation email. I've been playing around with Phoenix and Peacock and am very impressed with the quality of the tools.

The tools are definitely designed more for the "advanced hobbyist creators", however if you're familiar with Photoshop, Phoenix should look very familiar. [screenshot]

If you are interested in "beta testing" Aviary, I have 4 early bird invites remaining. I will send them to the first 4 people who request one.

While researching WordPress Theme tags and functions, I came accross a site called ThemeTation. Launched on June 5th, 2008 by Kai Loon, it is a well designed site that includes a WordPress related Weblog as well as free WordPress Themes (SuperFresh and Blue Blog).

What really caught my attention was the very informative series Kai Loon put together on creating a WordPress Theme from scratch. If you've ever considered taking on that challenge or are just interested in how WordPress Themes work, I suggest you take a look:

Part 1 - Structuring, Designing in Photoshop

Part 2 - Slicing and Coding

Part 3a - WordPress Implementation

Part 3b - WordPress Implementation cont.

Thanks Kai Loon!

From ProgrammerMeetDesigner.com:

"This site was created to unite programmers and designers because rarely is a person good at both programming and designing. PMD helps programmers and designers partner up to make websites and web applications that look and work great.

Now content writers and entrepreneurs can also join up to find people to work with."

What I am most intrigued by, is the ability to look for people interested in partnerships, not just single projects (which is also an option). I have a number of projects that I'm interested in exploring and am excited at the prospect of finding a designer to work with.

So, if you have a project or idea but can't do it alone, take a look at ProgrammerMeetDesigner.com. Oh, and if you are a designer, who'd be interested in working together with me...let me know ;)

If this is the first time you've heard of CSS Naked Day, it was started by Dustin Diaz to promote Web Standards:

"This includes proper use of (x)html, semantic markup, a good hierarchy structure, and of course, a good 'ol play on words. It's time to show off your <body>"

Are you brave enough to strip naked for a day?

Note: Only my content delivered through WordPress will be "naked", the rest will be left "fully clothed".

Despite my best-efforts to follow Gmails TOS, I believe that my account has been disabled...hopefully only temporarily. And here's why:

I made a couple updates to emAlbum Pro last night and wanted to send out an announcement (since the updates resolved some login issues). As I mentioned previously, all of my email accounts are managed through Gmail. So, knowing that most sites/servers have restrictions on bulk emailing, I headed over to the Gmail Help Center for guidance.

According to their Gmail Sending Limits page:
"Google will temporarily disable your account if you send a message to more than 500 recipients or if you send a large number of undeliverable messages".

Based on the above, I interpreted that to mean one (1) message cannot contain more than 500 recipients (it does say "a message" after all). So, I proceeded to break the ~900 recipients I had into 5 groups, just to be on the safe side.

When I tried to send the fifth message, I received the "An error occurred trying to send the message". I ended up on the Gmail Help Discussion and discovered that the limit is actually a daily limit, not a message limit (as insinuated in the Help Center).

So, now I am stuck, unable to send emails...which come to think of it...isn't so bad :D

That's 18,091 Spam emails (and counting) that I didn't have to scan/review/delete...

Nice!