Daily Reading from January 02, 2008

2 Jan 2008

Links to what I’ve been reading recently.

20 things to do on a social network in the office — How can an internal social network help employees?
Get uid of logged user | drupal.org — Why using $user to get the logged in user doesn’t work on Drupal profile pages and how to fix it.
Developerâ€™s Hymn — "Hello, mr Developer. It’s me. I’d like to use your app. I just have a few questions. Is your app accessible? Is it resolution-independent? Does it have an AppleScript dictionary? Does it use standard controls wherever possible? Does it start …"

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