Recent Code and the Culture of Code Links for Sept 5th

With Accordion Magic, Will Shaver has taken Stickman Labs’s accordion sections and added the ability to close panels, and code to keep contents hidden while page loads. Outstanding!!!
Common Prototype mistakes and how to avoid them : Here’s another list of things that tend to confuse (me) unexperienced “prototypers”
DatePicker using Prototype and Scriptaculous - Not Bad! Code and instructions for a datepicker widget using Prototype and Scriptaculous librairies.

Software Developers Guide to Managing Your Boss - one of the single most important things to your career is your ability to manage your boss. The relationship you have with your boss is critical to your success, and how far you will go at the company you’re at.

Canada’s Hot Start-Ups - According to the latest issue of Red Herrring, which features a cover story on the Canadian tech scene, the 10 hottest start-ups are

How Not to Die (if you are a Startup) - Paul Graham eassy : If you can just avoid dying, you get rich. Startups rarely die in mid keystroke. So keep typing! Distraction is fatal to startups. Oh, yeah. Don’t give up.

Think Before You Code - Or Think in Code? (Yea, I know it’s not a either or). So much Deep Thinking to do before you start coding?

IDC picks 10 best Canadian firms to watch for - 10 emerging Canadian software companies

Simply Albert: Canada is Screwed: Why We Need to Support Canadian Youth in Tech - Albert makes some good points about “Why” and “How” to Support Canadian Youth in Tech.

University of Toronto Releases ePresence v4: Open Source Webconferencing - ePresence Interactive Media, developed by the University of Toronto’s Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI) for the past seven years, is a Webcasting, conferencing and rich media publishing tool that just launched version 4.0. Plus, you canshare prese

kaourantin.net: What just happened to video on the web? - Flash Player 9 Update 3 Beta 2, codenamed Moviestar, which will support H.264 standard video as well as High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) (and Quicktime .Mov) !!