this one will be less about backend...

http://roberto.open-lab.com/2010/01/30/javascript-grid-editor-i-want-to-be-excel

http://treesaverjs.com/

https://github.com/gcv/appengine-magic clojure on google appengine

http://toroid.org/ams/git-website-howto

http://www.androidpatterns.com ergonomy... kinda...

http://www.designyourway.net/blog/resources/31-css-code-snippets-to-make-you-a-better-coder/ css hacks... meh...

https://github.com/raganwald/nonpareil iiinteresting....

http://amix.dk/blog/post/19414

http://www.splunk.com seems quite interesting, will need to test it (may be useful for those mean managers and similar fauna)

also was doing some freelance work with sphinx, some links to remember http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngram http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/sphinx/61807

also been reading some things about scala, got few bad references for groovy so now moving a bit towards scala, some frameworks to check out (yeah these are more popular ones) http://liftweb.net/ http://www.playframework.org/modules/scala-0.6/home http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/10/scalatra

not really IT related, but will need it http://www.dublinwork.com/images/dublin_map.jpg