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What’s good for the developer isn’t necessarily good for the customer. Vince Allen, senior front-end developer at Lot18, gives the background on why responsive web design is the right focus for web development http://www.netmagazine.com/features/seven-lessons-learned-responsive-web-design

More often than not, the mobile experience for a Web application or site is designed and built after the PC version is complete. Here's three reasons why Web applications should be designed for mobile first instead. Read more here

Mink is an open source acceptance test framework for web applications, written in PHP 5.3. Check out more in here http://mink.behat.org/

Behat is a tool that makes behavior driven development (BDD) possible. With BDD, you write human-readable stories that describe the behavior of your application. Read more at http://behat.org/

Do you know what makes a design good? Is it merely an opinion, or is there something more to it? Breaking design down seems like such an abstract thing... excellent article at Smashing Magazine, click here to read more

Keith Butters, chief experience officer and co-founder of The Barbarian Group, lists his top five web design clichés that he would like to never see on the internet again, read more here.

An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability - Smashing UX Design read more here.

Top Microsoft Developer links:
S. Somasegar: Visual Studio 11 IDE Advances
Beth Massi: Using the Save and Query Pipeline to “Archive” Deleted Records with LightSwitch
Stack Overflow: VisualStudio 2010 Extensions that others are recommending
Visual Studio Tips & Tricks: Speed up builds in Visual Studio 2010
SilverlightShow: 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 6 of 10)
Willy-P Schaub: TFS Integration Tools – Why does guidance state that TFS supports directory level branching? Is this an error?
Channel 9: Visual Studio Toolbox - JetBrains ReSharper JustCode
Channel 9: SPLASH 2011: David Ungar - Self, ManyCore, and Embracing Non-Determinism
Eric Ligman: How and where to access downloads from Microsoft
Windows Azure SDK: Deploy your cloud applications to Windows Azure from TFS Automated Build
Scott Hanselman: Five Absolutely Essential Utilities that make Windows better

Speed up Visual Studio Builds; recently I got involved in a big project where we had a single solution with approximately 100 projects... great article by Arik Poznanski, read more here.

Cambridge Software is currently investigating possibilities with font-face, looking very good and far better than cufon. Find more at http://www.fontsquirrel.com/.