I find it useful to spend about a half hour to an hour every month reviewing my delicious bookmarks.  I have found some good stuff on the internet in the past, only to forget when I need it.  In my experience, it is a fruitful use of time to search my delicious for cool stuff.

If you do any web 2.0 style rich internet application stuff, a good JavaScript frameworks is a must. There are two frameworks that I have used a bunch. Prototype with Scriptaculous and jQuery. Before I get to far into this, let me say, I really like both. Both are powerful, both are extremely good libraries.

I started with Scriptaculous (with means prototype as well).  This worked very well.  I was so impressed with the utility methods in prototype and the way ajax calls were wrapped.  Scriptaculous/Prototype has powered many websites that I have put together.

Lately I have been using jQuery.  I have only done one large project with jQuery.  I found jQuery very powerful as well.

So which one is better, well, it depends.  Here are my opinions.  Documentation for all three (prototype, scriptaculous, jQuery) is good.  Prototype and jQuery’s documentation is the best.  Scriptaculous has many more visual effects than jQuery.  jQuery’s selector (”$” function) is way more powerful then prototype’s.  jQuery’s syntax is better, more efficient.  jQuery plugins simply rock.

I would recommend both.  In the future, I will use jQuery.

Has twitter, or micro-blogging, killed the normal format of blogging. It seems that people are blogging less and micro-blogging more. Just from thinking about the people that I follow. I don’t know if this is a good thing.

Full blogs are good because they force you to think out were thoughts better, explain yourself more, and better express opinion. Full blogging, both reading and writing requires more attention, but I think you learn more.

Twitter, or micro blogging, requires little thought, littler effort. But it’s a great way to publish one liner thoughts.

Twitter has it’s place, I hope people don’t became too lazy and abandon blogging though.  One thing I would like to see, is for feedburner to provide daily digest of twitter into their feed.  Just exactly how they do delicious now.

So twitter was down, nothing too new there, but amazon, what happen to amazon today.