Long time no written.... I know - have lot of work on my head, on daily work, on allrise.com, on other things that on my mind - but I love it, I love to be busy, the disadvantage of it is the fact that the when you're busy the time runs too fast (mmm.. maybe I'll post a claim about it on allrise.com site).

I bumped into a great post (sent to me by my allrise.com co-founder - Erez Eden) which outlines some great tools to help you develop fatser web pages (I sure of it that you already know some of them, if not - you may take a look and discover it).

You can find it here.

Promise to post some more, I have great materials to share with you.. on the meanwhile bye bye!

Hi,

Great post that gathers around 100+ resources that could make the web developer life much more easier; code snippets, sites that automate processes, cheat sheets and more and more...

This priceless list is listed here.

BTW, don't become confused from the first image - I also know that this is not a common vision in our world of code... ;)

By the formal definition, Microformats designated in the first place for humans and just after to machines. Actually, this is a set of simple informational formats that based over generic and well unified standards. This set of formats comes to simplify common problems into a behavior and common templates (like XHTML, XML etc...).

The main goal of this formats is not to invent a new language or force these kind of changes over the 'world', however it comes to adapt a different way of thinking regarding storing information and publishing it to the world.

I going to apply this set of formats in my new web 2.0 working application. By doing it I can publish to a third level party data from my site easily in unified structure.

So what is the main different from what we have today?

Today we are using XML structure in order to keep data and to publish it or even publishing a specific  API that will explain the consumer the way she can retrieve the data. These kinds of solutions spends the developer's time that wants to get the data (she has to learn the API in order to use it); the Microformats comes to save up this time because it's a well know formats.

You can use RSS or some other feeds you'll ask not? In fact yes! BUT, these Microformats has a variety of patterns that help you publish extended unified structure data which supplies you more functionality.

Common standards are: hCalendar which supplies a calendar format in order to publish events, hCard which is a format for personal details card.

One more good advantage is search engines. Step by step, search engines crawlers starts to learn this kind format and knows to index this data in efficient way; this is also improves your site's SEO.

More details regarding it you can read here - http://microformats.org/