Great Icon Tutorial

Ah, the anatomy of an icon. Luckily this sneaky little webpage squirmed through the web filter at work. Yes - that's right in this tutorial you get to see naked icons, built from the canvas up. There are no holds barred - its a great tutorial for all front end developers, graphic designers and all sorts of icon admirers. Great stuff. Great tut.

http://www.simplebits.com/notebook/2004/08/23/anatomy.html

Moofx and Script.aculo.us

There’s actually two websites for today. The first is moofx, which is a simple javascript library that allows for cool dynamic html effects. Probably the coolest is the accordion effect, which is really effective. Click on the headings of each section and see how they fold up. Fantastic. I didn’t get round to using it, but it looks really simple and has minimal extra code to use.

http://moofx.mad4milk.net/

The second one is script.aculo.us which is a more hardcore javascript library with some fantastic effects. This one is for the more hardcore web developers, and might require a bit more to get it working with your pages, but it sure is worth it. Be sure to check out the demos page.

http://script.aculo.us/

XNA

XNA is a game development framework from Microsoft built on the .NET framework to run on both windows and the new xbox 360. It is unfortunately also built on top of directx and does not cater for opengl L. If you can stomach having to stick to Microsoft sponsoring technologies it definitely makes the process of making simple games easier.

Be sure to check out the Game Studio Express (free).

http://msdn.microsoft.com/directx/XNA/default.aspx