I stumbled upon a site “PSD Station” which blew me away with some really slick looking PSD templates 🙂  Looking though their archives I felt really inspired and I think it’s really handy to have some many nice looking designs and different versions of normal elements that are easy to take for granted.

I was mostly impressed with all the variations of signup forms they had.  There were some interesting variations that I have seen before but it really made me think about all the different ways you can present that information by seeing so many different samples in one place.

http://www.psdstation.com/

I found myself in the need for some inspiration, so here is a small collection of some nice looking 728×90 banners:

“Please start from the beginning” is a Podcast that interviews individuals about their jobs.  This podcast interviews individuals working with the web and goes through how they got to where they are today, what they do, and what their job title means.

It’s interesting to hear about how people got their start and what led up to where they are today 🙂  There may even be a few pearls of wisdom here and there throughout the interviews.

http://psftb.ryanhavoctaylor.com/

I recently completed the Ruby on Rails tutorial “Rails for Zombies.” I really like it’s “edutainment” zombie filled format, and on top of that it’s a very well written and easy to follow tutorial.

The tutorial consists of five “chapters.” Each chapter is broken up into an approximately 10 minute video and then a lab portion where you get to do exercises related to the video.  It’s really great to try out the code right after hearing about it, and I like that it doesn’t get drearily technical at the get go with needing to get Rails up and running.  A lot of RoR tutorials start with installing and runing your own local server, which a least for me is the least pleasant part.

A nice take away is the free PDF download it offers, which has all the slides from the video and is a nice reference back to everything you learned from the tutorial.  You also get a coupon for some paid rails tutorials after you finish.  They have “Rails for Zombies 2” in the works so I’m thinking of saving it for that :3

At their Code School website they also offer a “Rails best practices” class which sounds a little advanced for diving into right after Rails for Zombies, but if it’s anywhere as well put together as Rails for Zombies I’d like to come back to it later.

http://railsforzombies.org/