HTML5 is bringing with it a number of new elements that are making web-based project development really cool (and a lot of fun).

As nice as it is to see others leveraging the technology, I still get a kick out of seeing utilities like this…

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If the only word you understand in the title is “Introducing”, don’t worry, but if you are a JavaScript coder or hacker, you’re gonna like this.

Check it out…

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Your boss walks up to your coworker and tasks her with finding every single United States phone number lying within several million files.

Upon hearing this, you can’t help but feel relief that you weren’t asked to do this fully confident that your coworker will spend the next year of her life tracking this information down.

So when later that day, you see her back to hacking on one of her pet projects, you can’t help but stop and ask how the Where’s Waldo hunt for phone numbers is going.

“Oh that?” she asks surprised “I finished getting that information hours ago.”

How’d she do it?

Simple, she was using Regular Expressions. Here are five tools that will help you on your way to becoming a RegEx Jedi Knight.

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If you’ve been around any of our sites for an extended amount of time, you know that we like to do giveaways. Though this site is young, it’s no different. Last week, we kicked off our first contest.

Today, we’ve got our winner:

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A number of my friends and my peers in the software development (and some in the engineering field) were all fans of Legos whenever they were growing up.

Before I graduated, my alma mater began incorporating robotic programming courses early into a branch of the computer science curriculum.

I’ve always enjoyed seeing young kids get into programming and I think it’s really cool that major businesses are looking to provide resources for the young audience to get started in the field. Take Lego, for example…

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As with any semi-political issue, people are going to have their opinions – some are going to be hardcore for one side or the other, while others are going to opt to remain in the middle.

Software is no different. When it comes to open-source versus closed-source, each provides their own set of advantages and disadvantages and we’re often very particular about which we support (if not both).

Recently, a minor issue cropped up between Enormego and Facebook specifically with regard to the latter’s iPhone application.

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These guys took a break from their IDE to leave a few comments here this week:

1. John (3)
2. Ben Miller (2)
3. Chase Adams (2)
4. Cliff (2)
5. Joe Pasqualetti (2)
6. Chris McGrath (1)
7. Erik Scottberg (1)
8. Esteban Eid (1)
9. Jeff (1)

Sweet.

We’ve covered three things that you can do to speed up page load times, but there are also a number of utilities available to help improve development time, too.

Personally, CSS is one of those languages that leaves a lot to be desired. That’s why I love when I find tools that actually do something about it.

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The HTML5 Boilerplate is an amazing set of utilities for beginning an HTML5-based project. The thing is, not everyone will need all of the things that are included with the project.

One of the things that I love about software development is that there is rarely only one option for a given problem. The HTML5 Reset project is a great alternative for a lightweight starting point…

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We’ve gotten quite accustomed to terms such as “app store” and the idea that a number of major players offer their own platform for developers to market their projects.

Up until recently, it’s primarily been the mobile market that offers this particular paltform, but it looks like that’s about to change with the Chrome Web Store.

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