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• Designing A Facebook Fan Page: Showcases, Tutorials, Resources - Smashing Magazine
  In this post, we’ll give you an idea of how to use Facebook for your business and self-promotional efforts. Below, you will find best practices for custom Facebook fan page designs, with various approaches to creating an attractive, descriptive and engaging Facebook business page. In addition, the selection of tutorials and resources for Facebook fan page development might help you get started with your own effective Facebook presence.
• WordPress Custom Post Types Guide
  In this guide, we’ll go through the process of creating and using your own custom post type. More specifically, we will create an "Event" post type for your special events and dates, sort of like a calendar.
• CMS-Battle: TYPO3 vs Drupal – Wettkampf über 20 Runden » t3n News
  TYPO3 gegen Drupal: Welches Content Management System hat die Nase vorn? Wir lassen die beiden in 20 Runden gegeneinander antreten. Genauer gesagt haben wir Jeffrey A. „jam“ McGuire für Drupal und Kian T. Gould für TYPO3 je 20 Fragen geschickt und per Mail beantworten lassen. Hier nun die Ergebnisse.
• Views UI: Edit Basic Settings | drupal.org
  "Views UI: Edit Basic Settings" provides a separate interface that displays a list of views (defined by you, so you can exclude certain views) and allows users with the correct permission to modify their header, footer, title, empty text, or number of items to display. "Edit" tabs are also added to Views pages, similar to node pages.

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• Ajaxian » Cool SVG Puzzle Demo Using JQuery SVG
• [Moof:Bar]: Implementing iBooks page curling using a conical deformation algorithm
• High Caffeine Content: Apple’s iBooks Dynamic Page Curl
• PixSearch
  The PixSearch module is trying to mimic a search like the one on apple.com.
  It will perform a backend AJAX Query to the core component com_search and display the results instantly while typing in an inputbox.
• brow’s leaves at master - GitHub
  An iBooks-like page-turning interface for iPhone and iPad apps using only public APIs.
• Flex book component (beta) : Ruben’s blog
  hese are the main features of the component:
  * Pageflip effect (not kidding )
  * Hardback option for every page, as well as a hardcover option for the containing book, automatically making the first and last pages hardback.
  * Functionality for tearing pages out of the containing book.
• How to: Integrating facebook in your Website
  We already have a distance finder, an app the uses the google maps api to find the distance and route between two locations. The results of the search can be shared on twitter. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to share your results on Facebook!
• Homebrew — MacPorts driving you to drink? Try Homebrew!
  Homebrew is the easiest and most flexible way to install the UNIX tools Apple didn't include with OS X.
• Fancy Checkboxes | drupal.org
  Replaces default checkboxes with fancy (iOS-like) on/off switches under configurable pages.

daily links

• Options Element | drupal.org
  Options Element is a module that provides a better mechanism to specify select list, checkbox, and radio button options. Rather than requiring the user to use strange syntax like "key|value" in a textarea, Options Element provides a clean interface for specifying options.
• MultiBlock | drupal.org
  Drupal's block module is limited by the fact that a block can only have one instance. Each block has a 1:1 relationship with its region, weight, visibility (and other) settings. This means that it is impossible to have blocks in multiple regions or to have blocks that have different settings on different pages. MultiBlock module solves this problem by allowing you to create multiple Block Instances of already existing blocks. Please read the README for more information.
• Create Facebook applications with CodeIgniter
  This article shows you how to get the sample Facebook application working with the CodeIgniter framework for PHP. There are plenty of really great articles out there on Facebook development, of course, and a handful of good ones on using CodeIgniter to build applications, but this one takes into account the latest PHP SDK made available by Facebook.
• Artof Editor - A CKEditor Plugin for Joomla
  CKEditor is a text editor to be used inside Joomla articles. It's a WYSIWYG editor, which means that the text being edited on it looks as similar as possible to the results users have when publishing it. It brings to the web common editing features found on desktop editing applications like Microsoft Word and OpenOffice.
• comment_rave 0.5.0 :: rave³
  So… what does comment_rave do?
  This is a simple to use, and free commenting system. It's designed in the vein of Haloscan, regarding functionality, but is far more useful… plus, it's got no annoying advertisements!

Facebook: Hinter den Kulissen

pingdom beschreibt welche (Open Source) Tools bei Facebook zum Einsatz kommen:

At the scale that Facebook operates, a lot of traditional approaches to serving web content break down or simply aren’t practical. The challenge for Facebook’s engineers has been to keep the site up and running smoothly in spite of handling close to half a billion active users. This article takes a look at some of the software and techniques they use to accomplish that.

daily links

• Facebook Share - Joomla! Extensions Directory
  This Joomla 1.5 module creates a facebook share link on your website. It uses facebook's sharer api.
  You can configure the text, link colour (including hover) and whether the module shares the base URL or the page URL it is on.
• Twitter articles plugin - Joomla! Extensions Directory
  Twitter Articles Plugin is an extension written in order to socialize your content and give your visitors an opportunity to share your pages with their twitter followers.
• Joomla Plugin Css and Javascript aggregate and compress
  Joomla Plugin CssJsCompress can automatically optimize external resources like CSS
  and JavaScript, which can reduce both the size and number of requests made to your website.