I’ve been reading How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie the last few days. It’s a book I bought 6 years ago and just decided to revisit.

I started thinking about how much we change (or don’t) over time…

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During An Event Apart in Chicago 2007, I made six posts for my co-workers to follow live; this ended up being really long.

Instead of those 6 posts, you now have access to this single post, but I’m only going to focus on the really awesome stuff from the conference.

You can still download the original set of 6 posts in .PDF format, if you’d like additional reference material. I hope they help you in your quest to further web standards!

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We’re going to look at some business ideas that show why duplication is important. Then, we’ll use those concepts to introduce the FormVal Library, which uses PHP and Ajax to validate and submit web forms.

Feeling impatient? Skip straight to the code

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Ever notice that you run out of money before you run out of month, even with a decent income?

I’m going to show you how to cut back and save some money by putting together a monthly budget in Google Documents. It’s worked really well for a few of my friends as well as me, so here’s the version for the rest of the world.

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