I’m trying to get back to some regular posting schedule and starting with the weekly roundup coming back. Summer is always a slow time online so this weekly roundup is a bit smaller than usual but there are still some good links that dropped in my feed box. So, here we go with this week’s roundup with a few from last week for good measure.

37 signals wrote this week ‘Web designers should do their own HTML / CSS’. This post basically follows thinking I’ve had for a long time where by you shouldn’t call yourself a web designer if you can not code HTML/ CSS. As expected there are some pretty strong for and against opinions in the comments. In the past I’ve been fairly vocal myself about my opinion on this and also experienced in my working life the frustration of making up a design from someone who doesn’t understand the web as a medium or HTML / CSS.

There is a lot of talk about the iPhone 2 which is maybe coming soon. From 3g to applications there seems a lot of debate as to what will happen. The SDK also is getting there for applications soon. With all this is mind and after having lived with my iPhone for a while, I thought I would write about what I would like to see on the iPhone.

In this day and age it’s so easy to find something to grumble about with regards to customer service, that when a service you use regularly goes above and beyond it just makes your day. This week amongst the usual pile o spam was a hand written envelope from Wufoo. Now, my first thought was oh some usual company spam enclosed then. However on opening it I found a handmade card with a cute rhino sticker on the front saying thank you for using them as a service. Not only was the card handmade it also was hand written (I have trouble racking my brains to think when a company last hand wrote to me).

Way I see it in life you are either reacting to things as they happen or acting before they do. The later is a more ‘control’ approach in many sense. Many times in my life I could fall into either camp. As things come up you are forced to react to them, to act upon things then and there or defer - it’s how you deal with the known that impacts how well you can manage the unknown. You need to see some end to things and rewards otherwise life just becomes one drudge of fighting fires and dealing with panics.