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Book Reviews for November 2009 — Part 1
I know! November has barely begun and here I am posting my book reviews already thanks to my two-week vacation! I had a great time in Chennai and Bangalore, meeting very interesting people and drinking in the new developments. It could be my hallucination, but there seems to be an abundance of opportunities here. Service providers are falling over themselves to provide creative solutions (Per second billing has arrived in India without government intervention, and where are we in U.S.?). This trip has definitely made me rethink where I want to be 5 years from now. Now, here are my reviews! The Bolter

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Web Design 1 | WaSP InterAct Curriculum Looks like a great course for designers getting started with web standards

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Declaring Languages in HTML 5 | Nimbupani Designs How to use multiple languages in a HTML 5 valid document

Declaring Languages in HTML 5
Web Development is infinitely more troublesome when you have documents in languages other than American English. The onus is on us web developers and server administrators to make sure browsers and search engines can detect the right language. Here is how you can declare the language of your document in HTML 5. What is language declaration? This is a way to specify what language a HTML document or a snippet of HTML text is in. Language declaration does not provide information on character encoding and the text direction (right to left or left to right). Those need to be declared separately.

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Pedana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia cheap kalamkari work!