TTMMHTM – lovely HTML5 training book, CPU in minecraft and a few games.

Things that made me happy this morning:

• 20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web is a great eBook style HTML5 presentation
• Nick Halstead on what motivates programmers
• There is background audio on iPhone you can use for text-to-speech
• A step by step tutorial how to mark up a progress bar
• Detailed video of a working CPU in Minecraft – the first CPU with livestock in it
• Interesting write-up on link padding for hashtags for smoother browser scrolling
• Amazing – you can built a touchpad using paper and graphite
• Twitter partnered with Gnip to offer more tailored Firehose feeds for developers
• easyXDM is a library to work around the same origin policy of JavaScript in many different ways
• IE6 fixer is a polyfill to work around the issues of the browser – you can select which things to fix.
• Interesting tip how to track Ajax loads and JS event clicks in Google Analytics
• A call to abandon designs when you like them to much is tough but might yield better results in the long run
• Glenn Jones is always good for interesting concepts. Draggables is an alternative way for users to pass data between web sites.
• Andrew Woolridge has a great writeup on how to create web services with JS and YQL
• YQL Erklaerungen in deutsch
• Chaos invaders – bit confusing but then pretty cool
• 3D Pong in jQuery is quite a lot of fun
• F1 by Mozilla makes social sharing of web sites easy
• Good introduction to the support of HTML5 forms in Firefox4
• A very cool TextMate colour scheme for developers
• Josh Aas talks about the Improvements for Firefox4 on Mac
• Frogdesign built a cool visualisation of where people tweet with live heatmaps.
• A nice live audio analysis of tweets – the more people tweet, chirps you hear