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Link Round-Up: July 29, 2009

29 Jul 2009 Links

Resources

13 Ways to Browser Test and Validate Your Work – Nettuts+ rounds up a list of the best tools to test your work before publishing it online. Makes for some great bookmarks for webdesigners.

15 Resources for Setting Up an E-Commerce Site with WordPress – WordPress is a popular blogging platform and content management system, but it can also be used for powering e-commerce websites. Although its primary purpose is not e-commerce, there are a number of plugins and themes available that will allow you to use WordPress for your online store.

Top 7 Places to Watch Great Minds in Action – The TED conference has been helping to blow people’s minds for many years now, and that’s in large part because they put videos of many of the TED talks online for anyone to watch, share, and spread for free. But there are a number of other conferences held each year around the world that also bring together visionaries, intellectuals, and luminaries from a wide variety of disciplines to discuss innovative ideas.

Top 10 Most Famous Hackers of All Time – Hackers are a very diverse bunch, a group simultaneously blamed with causing billions of dollars in damages as well as credited with the development of the World Wide Web. In this article, Focus introduces you to ten of the most famous hackers, both nefarious and heroic, to let you decide for yourself.