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Smashing Magazine’s Drupal Developer Toolbox has a very handy list of resources for working with the Drupal Content Management System.

Animated Sorting Algorithms - insertion, selection, bubble, shell, merge, heap, quick and quick3 sorts in random, nearly, reversed and few unique starting order.

PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) Performance Tips that are worth bookmarking.

Writing secure PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) code - tips that include Part 2 and Part 3.

A Visual Guide to Version Control does a good job of explaining this more than ever needed project software.

Ryan Irelan in A List Apart Issue 262 provides resources which can help you work SVN version control into your current business workflow for contractors. I’ve used SVN on several occasions and agree, although I did have it screw up an Eclipse Java Project over and over about two years ago (ouch). Its definately worth the effort.

Yahoo!’s Exceptional Performance team have solid tips for improving website performance - make fewer HTTP Requests, reduce DNS lookups, avoid redirects, make Ajax cacheable, post-load components, preload components, reduce the number of DOM elements, split components across domains, minimise the number of iframes and no 404s.

Roberto Baca has some expanded conversation to add to Andy Rutledge’s article titled the Employable Web Designer. The world of the web designer isn’t a specialisation of graphic design at all, its far larger and more complex than designing posters that have buttons. The moment you add human perception, information and interaction (plus an array of technologies and sciences) then we’ve well and truely passed graphic design by the wayside. True, graphic design is a part of what we do but its a bigger, more complex picture.