2008 was pret­ty excit­ing on the web, was­n’t it? The con­tin­u­ing rise of social media, mobile inter­net, APIs, frame­works… it’s get­ting hard­er to keep up with it all.

I won’t be so bold as to make any spe­cif­ic pre­dic­tions about the year ahead — more of the same is my best guess! — but here are a few arti­cles I’ve read recent­ly which have an eye on the future.

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Fol­low­ing on from my pre­vi­ous post, I thought I’d explore in a lit­tle more detail how I like to opti­mise my Textpat­tern instal­la­tion when start­ing a new site. While TXP has a pret­ty good set­up out of the box, there are a few more steps I like to take to real­ly make it zing.

Bear in mind that I’ve only real­ly noticed the pow­er of TXP in the last year or so, and there may be a heap of oth­er plu­g­ins that I’m unaware of; list­ed below are just my favourites that I’ve dis­cov­ered so far.

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