When listening to Boagworld's podcast some weeks ago I heard about the Fancy Form Design book from SitePoint. Since Paul Boag recommended it I thought, well, give it a try. And yes, I think it's a nice book, indeed. I like it because it gives the reader new ideas on how to design and implement modern forms.

So being inspired after reading the book I looked at my own "Your comment" form and thought: "OMG! WTF?" I have to admit I never really spent much time on designing and implementing the form. But after reading the book I though it was about time to give my comment form a little bit of love. During the process of revamping the form I also digged deeper into the world of jQuery which is a good thing imho. I even wrote my first little plugin that handles an example value on form fields like this:

$("#id_author").fancyField({sampleValue: "Joe Cool"});

It will automatically setup everything like registering for focus() and blur() and even registering on the enclosing form tag for the submit event. Anyway, have a look at the form for yourself to get the idea :)

At work I faced a rather tricky problem: on a form with a row of multiple submit buttons (they call it a button row) the rightmost one has to be the default button. So if, for example, you have the buttons a | b | c then button c must respond to enter. With the help of jQuery this would have been easy. Unfortunately, though, the customer wants the form to work properly without any use of JavaScript.

Several months ago I blogged about a reworked design of my blog. Today finally I managed it to put it online. Since I've been very busy because of a big project at work I didn't find much time to work on the redesign.

Anyway, now that the design is online I can focus on new features again. There are a lot of things I want to add: Twitter integration, Gravatar support, Solr, markitup and so on. Maybe I should take a closer look at tools like Things or The Hit List - hehehe :-)

The author of the Barista iPhone App tweed mentioned this link: 15 Things Worth Knowing About Coffee. What a hilarious comic :-)

Leckerer Kaffee, Zeitung, was will man mehr :)