Peter Morville presents his User Experience Design Honeycomb which is a visual diagram to show the relationship between the different facets of UX. Peter explains it as:

When I broadened my interest from IA to UX, I found the need for a new diagram to illustrate the facets of user experience – especially to help clients understand why they must move beyond usability – and so with a little help from my friends developed the user experience honeycomb.

Alessandro Fulciniti has created a nice new CSS technique that allows you to make Inline Mini Tabs for horizontal navigation on your sites.

Lucas Carlson has created a shell script that will Completely Fix for Ruby on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. Not only does the script fix a problem with the Ruby that ships with Tiger, it also installs ruby gems and Rails, fixes a bug with rbconfig to build external libraries in Ruby, and finally, automatically fixes readline support.

Mozilla has a complete list of New Web Developer Features in the Deer Park Alpha. Some noteable additions include:

• Native SVG rendering
• Support for XFORMS (with an extension)
• Support for more CSS3 properties

colr.org is a very cool JavaScript application that will help you find colors for your next web design. There are user submitted schemes and colors that can be discovered by searching on tags. The coolest feature is that you can upload a photo and have the tool randomly select a color scheme from that image.

Controlled Vocabularies Cut Off the Long Tail is an excellent article by Joshua Porter that discusses an interesting property of folksonomies – the long tail.

The Long Tail paradigm is about the discovery of information, not just the finding of it. The distinction I’m making here between discovery and finding is that users who discover information didn’t need to know it was there to begin with, and so couldn’t have been trying to find it. In a word: serendipity.

Interesting concept. The authors of Agile Web Development with Rails have released a beta version of their upcoming book. You can now purchase the book in PDF format and when the final version is complete you can then download the final PDF. They also have a combo option where you buy the beta PDF then have the hardcopy book shipped to you when it’s ready.

I purchased the book, and must say from what I’ve read so far, it is a top knotch programming book.

Thomas Vander Wal has a great article that is Explaining and Showing Broad and Narrow Folksonomies. The article has clear descriptions and some nice diagrams that will help you better understand how we look at folksonomies.

PHPObject from GhostWire Studios is a set of Flash Components and an opensource alternative to Flash Remoting for PHP developers. With PHPObject, you can call a method of a PHP class/library on your web server as if the class/library was defined in Flash itself.

X Factor Studio has a nice XPath implementatin for Flash. Available for both ActionScript 1 and 2, XPath4AS2 is very close to being a complete XPath implementation.

[link via Vinnie Stubbs]