First the ‘thanks’.
I wrote a series of articles I collectively titled Project: New early last year. I wrote them to try and disseminate the idea of web standards to web developers who weren’t yet taking a standards based approach. The series takes you from taking an initial brief to cutting over the final project to the client – all with web standards, usability, accessibility etc to the fore.
After launch a few people emailed me to ask if they could thank me by way of making a financial contribution to which I replied that that was much appreciated but that I didn’t do it for the money but that if people really wanted to then they could buy me a little something from my Amazon wish-list.
Every so often then a little surprise package from Amazon drops through my letterbox and yesterday was no exception. I got back from work to discover a copy of The Elements of User Experience awaiting my return and a friendly anonymous note thanking me for my hard work.
So thank you Mr/Ms Anonymous, I’ll enjoy having a read of that, it was very thoughtful of you.
On a related note, I’ll shortly be starting work on Project: New Part II and will be again looking for expert contributors. I know Pierce from Distorte is up for it but if you, or anyone you know is also interested then I’d love to hear from you. This one’s going to be looking at server and client side scripting. You don’t need to be an out and out expert who knows everything – I want to discuss ways these things work for people new to them and how they can help a web designer/developer. Familiarity with Javascript or ASP or PHP or RoR is ideal.
Lastly, I’m afraid that I’ve been absolutely deluged with spam over the last few days. So much so that I considered turning comments off for a while but I think I’m getting on top of it now. This means that comment sensitivity is pretty high and thus you might stand an elevated chance of your comment being auto-deleted (in extreme cases) or moderated and placed in a queue. If your comments seems to disappear then give it a day in case I don’t get to it straight away. If its not there after a few days then its almost certainly been eaten – sorry in advance.
Left Brain Right Brain 
Although my ASP is a little rusty, I’m sure I could knock up a decent introduction to either PHP or Javascript (preferably the latter) if you liked – or an AJAX tutorial, you can never have too many of those… 😉
Disco.
I’m more front-end than server-side scripting, but I’m capable enough I guess. Depends on what level of PHP you’d want. Haven’t touched ASP in years.
I have been doing VB.net in work (don’t laugh). .NET is where it’s at, apparently.
I’m a dab-hand at spelling/grammatical error-spotting. A good proof-reader. I could help you avoid little spelling mistakes like those in Project: New I. 🙂
I’m up for writing a few articles – Just let me know on what 😉
Khalid