@tosbourn
This is my fifth week of doing this now and I haven't even whored myself out yet! I can only assume you already follow me and hang on my every tweet, but for those of you who don't @tosbourn
What do you mean it was late on Friday and I couldn't be bothered thinking of someone inspiring or funny or smart?
Really cool dropdown menu
Janko - At Warp Speed is an excellent blog, and if you haven't subscribed to the feed for it then I really suggest you do.
One post that really grabbed me recently was named 'Reinventing a Dropdown with CSS and jQuery', not the most imaginative of titles I grant you, but the results of the supplied tutorial are just fantastic.

I must admit that my first thought was that reinventing stuff is usually a bad idea, I mean the dropdown element works fine, it is functional and most web users would know how to use one without needing to think about it so why go to the hassle of prettying it up a bit?
Well the thing is, they have prettied it up a lot and I think the inclusion of graphics makes it more accessible. Actually whilst I think about it, you may look at the first part of the code and dismiss it out of hand because it isn't very accessible (it uses <li> tags), however if you read on down they have included a way to achieve the same results with the normal <select> tag, so I don't know any reasons why this couldn't be incorporated into some web projects.
@RealBillBailey
Hopefully you know who Bill Bailey is, if not this video should help.
Once you have finished laughing, follow him here, bloody hilarious! @RealBillBailey
PHP Whitespace/Comment Removal
Here is a handy script that removes whitespace and comments from PHP code and it came via the rather excellent technical blog by Charles Reace.
Whilst I would argue that whitespace and comments don't account for any real noticeable performance drop I guess it is good practice to perform obfuscation on any code that will be going into production, you do it with your JavaScript and CSS, so why not your PHP?
CSS Techniques Run Down
Now I am not going to be one of these people who only posts up apologies for never posting, but you may have noticed that a lot of my posts recently have just been linking to other peoples work and saying how much I agree with it. The reason I have been doing this is simply because there is a lot of quality articles out there, and whilst I do have every plan to create some of my own very soon I want to keep the site ticking over whilst I get my creative arse in gear!
So today I want to chat about the SM post entitled '50 New CSS Techniques For Your Next Web Design' it is a quality article (what else would you expect from Smashing Magazine) that basically runs down a list of blog posts and tutorials on how to achieve the very latest CSS things. As with a lot of their articles you could always argue that this is all information that is freely available and perhaps that most web designers should already be taking for granted but the fact of the matter is that with so much new stuff constantly coming out, and so many people finding new ways of doing things these run downs are incredibly useful.
Things that I found especially interesting / useful were;
- Compressing JavaScript and CSS.
- Useful layout tips and tricks.
- Multiple Backgrounds.
- A whole lot more.
I would really suggest you bookmark this article and really spend time going through each of the sections.