The featured designs in this week’s Friday Focus have something subtle in common: thin, repeating patterns you often see in important documents such as bills, checks, and passports, known as guilloché, and similar to the patterns generated by spirographs.

This week’s Friday Focus is a little meta: a combination of useful guides and tools geared towards designers and developers all wrapped in inspiring designs.

How to write clean, well-written code and possibly prevent a revolution.

Where to turn to with your burning programming questions.

Have you considered outsourcing development work?

Rainbows are typically loud and attention-grabbing, but these sites have toned down the explosion of color to bring about a more modern look altogether.

Object-oriented programming (OOP) is generally the best way to code in most languages. It helps by grouping together similar code and by having the ability to reuse the code.

We will be hosting an upcoming interview with the crew behind Digg, and we need your input! This will be a user-generated interview, where will take the best 6-8 questions and send them in to Digg for response. Multiple digg staffers will be contributing, so nows the time to ask away! Please leave your questions [...]

Company Name: Senior Internet Location: Nottingham, UK Job Title: Development Job Description: .net Programmer Job ref: SI-.net You will be working on a range of medium-sized applications (3-12 month lifecycle) based primarily in the areas of HR, CRM, eCommerce and business process improvement. An enthusiastic and team player with experience within a development role you [...]

Now that you’ve improved your WordPress SEO with Ronalfy’s recent and popular SEO plugins post, it’s time to talk about what else was hot this week. I myself have been preoccupied with the upcoming relaunch of the Podcast page (probably tomorrow), so I didn’t get the chance to put together any large articles this week, [...]

I’ve been working on site upgrades the last few days, which along with a busy personal Friday, forced me to miss the target day in “Friday Focus”. So, without further delay, here’s Friday (Sat) Focus, with an extra zing for missing a day. Sites of the Week I didn’t see too much originality hitting the [...]

A guide to understanding the basic of Ruby on Rails.