April 2008

joelonsoftware.com

Joel Spolsky's primer on character encodings, walking from ASCII through code pages to Unicode and UTF-8, and why no string is meaningful without knowing its encoding.

jazzfile.free.fr

Sales page for a commercial SysEx bank of 51 Middle Eastern and Mediterranean patches (buzuk, ud, ney, duduk, accordion) for the Korg X5D and X5 synthesizers.

petethomas.co.uk

Reference chart of jazz chord symbol notation, comparing the competing conventions for majors, minors, alterations and upper extensions.

soundonsound.com

Sound on Sound review of the Roland VR760, a 76-key stage keyboard combining modelled Hammond organ, piano, synth voices and rhythms.

youtube.com

Four-minute video of organist Leon Kuijpers playing the jazz standard If I Should Lose You on a Hammond B3.

oswd.org

Repository of free, standards-compliant HTML and CSS website templates contributed by designers and downloadable for any project.

semooh.jp

Japanese documentation for a jQuery rollover plugin that swaps images on mouse-over via a filename suffix convention, with optional fade, on img tags and image inputs.

youtube.com

Four-minute video of Manu Delago playing a solo on the Hang, the Swiss steel handpan.

smashingmagazine.com

Free set of 18 PNG payment-method icons designed by Phil Matthews for showing accepted cards on online shops.

davidwalsh.name

Post showing how to merge separate screen and print stylesheets into a single file using @media blocks, saving an HTTP request per page.