I've had the benefit of both doing Quality Assurance and Software Development for many years (usually not at the same time.) Interestingly enough, doing QA has made me a better developer and being a developer has made me better at writing comprehensive testplans. What astounds me about these two roles that work together on a nearly daily basis is they have a communication level that is lower than the US and Russia in the mid 80s.

Per Yahoo it's best to move your Javascript calls to right above your closing body tags since downloading scripts block parallel downloads which causes your page to take longer to download/render. (1) Now I'm not going to go into any metrics to prove this statement, we'll just have to take Yahoo's word on it.

I just signed up for the first Barcamp Orlando. If you haven't heard about it and you're somehow in the web devel/design world and you happen to be in Orlando on Sept. 23, sign up - it's free!

I'm still toying with the idea of doing a Drupal talk.

Oh, and here's a brief writeup on what it is (I'll admit I didn't know until a co-worker told me).