So this was an eventful week, something new every day.

• Monday-Tuesday was a power outage at the main C&IT data center
• Wednesday the Board of Governors meeting where the budget was approved
• Thursday the high traffic due to the first day of classes took down Blackboard
• Friday came with a water main break at Warren and Cass which stopped water to a few buildings

Even with all of that this week turned out to be a successful first week of classes. Enjoy these links of the week.

• Why I switched from PHP to Python
• Carsonified » How to Create a Valid Non-Javascript Lightbox (opens new window)
• Everyone Needs a Strategic Plan (opens new window)
• 20+ HTML Forms Best Practices for Beginners - Nettuts+ (opens new window)
• JAWS 11 Public Beta (opens new window)
• Best Practices for Designing Mobile Applications (opens new window)
• Speed up your Web App by 1000% with 1 Line of SQL (opens new window)
• CSS Minification; Part 72; Alphabetizing (opens new window)
• Carsonified » How to Create Bulletproof Sessions (opens new window)
• Solutions to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Attack - Hungred.com (opens new window)
• Do not burden your users with validations | Plataforma Blog (opens new window)
• Guidelines for writing accessible CSS | Reinhold Weber
• Ultimate Usability Testing Toolkit (opens new window)