Weekly Watercooler: Awesome Tips Edition

4K news this week:

• We had a great Drupal Day Austin! If you missed the recap, you can go here. Or you can read a tweet-by-tweet play on Storify.
• It comes to no surprise to anyone that we’re all very much looking forward to BADCamp. We submitted a few sessions proposals:
  • Integrating Node.js for Real Time Updates
  • Drupal and Higher Education
  • Drupal Mario Bros. Best Practice Workflows for Developing and Maintaining Drupal Websites
  • DBTNG: 25th Anniversary Edition

Links around the watercooler:

We had lots of great links floating around this week, which all made for some really great tips!

• Colour Contrast Check: web-based app that allows you to test text and background colors quickly to determine contrast, specially when viewed by folks who trouble seeing colors, or when looking at color on a black and white screen.
• Symbolset (which we love to use) released new icons this week! If you’re not familiar with Symbolset, it is a semantic web font that works on all browsers, or with anything that supports OpenType.
• CreateJS: a set of libraries to help you build rich HTML5 experiences on the web. It includes Easel.js, Tween.js, Sound.js, Preload.js and Zoë.
• Lastly, here’s an awesome talk on Destroy All Software from @garybernhardt. It’s called “WAT” and you should stop anything you’re doing and just watch it.