Regardless of what kind of Web development you are doing, you will always need to work with CSS before launching your site. I've been reflecting on best practices in CSS lately. So here is my list of best practices. This is not by any means a complete list or the gold standard for CSS development. This is just what I have learned so far (although I doubt many would find any of these statements controversial). Feel free to add your ideas in the comments.

I can't make it to Drupalcon this time around. I'm sending my minidisc recorder with the folks from Gorton Studios.

If you are presenting please consent to wearing the mic and being recorded. I'm sending enough discs to record about a dozen sessions or so. I'll post the mp3's as soon as I can in a spot where everyone can get a them.

Thanks!

Drupal 6 was released this last week. I've been checking it out through the betas and release candidate releases. Its a soid release with something for everyone.

Developers get under the hood improvements like a new streamlined version of the Form API.

My first reaction to this book was fairly negative after looking though the table of contents. The book doesn't cover CCK or Views theming at all - 2 essential parts of almost any current Drupal site.  I was hoping it would cover CCK and Views theming in detail.  However, when I got over the initial disappointment, I found a lot of good content in the book. It explains how themes work in detail in Drupal 5, how to modify existing themes, find additional themes for Drupal, and making themes from scratch.

Don't get complacent though and update without backing up first.  

I hope my other 6 drupal sites update as easily as this one.

By the way - I've gotten in the habit of not overwriting my sites/* folder on the server when updating. Is that cheating?