We published the Ultimate Guide for Everything Twitter at just at the right time when everyone wanted to know about this Twitter thing, how to start using it, and how to sleeve it into their websites and blogs.

The guide is still being tweeted at the rate of a few tweets per day, which is remarkable considering that it was published a few months ago.

We’d like to thank everyone for the excellent reception of that post and we will continue to report on Twitter as it evolves.

We’ve also incorporated all of your suggestions in the comments on the guide into this update post.

As usual, we encourage you to submit more news about Twitter in the comments’ area so that we can include them in this post or in future ones.

Cats and dogs. Cain and Abel. Designers and developers. These are just a few of the great historical face-offs.

Designers and developers often seem to come from different planets and have completely different brains.

Developers want a website to work right, designers want it to look right.

A few weeks ago, we explored the main pet peeves that web designers have with web developers, and suggested some solutions for them.

Today, we will discuss the other side of the coin: the five most common gripes that developers have with designers.

Adobe AIR is one of the most under-appreciated application platforms, but the number of applications available for AIR make it incredibly useful.

There are apps for everything from business to shopping to image management to video editing.

And plenty of applications are useful to designers and developers, including HTML text editors, Flickr search apps, color palette management tools and even ones to help with the business side of the industry.

Below are 40 awesome AIR apps that we have selected to help you streamline your design and development workflow.

Jennifer Maestre creates stunning sculptures out of pencils. Yes, you read right: pencils!

Her work is hard to describe and difficult to compare with anything else that I’ve seen before.

She was originally inspired by the form and function of sea urchins:

“The spines of the urchin, so dangerous yet beautiful, serve as an explicit warning against contact. The alluring texture of the spines draws the touch in spite of the possible consequences.”

I interviewed Jennifer and asked her about her stunning art, her sources of inspiration and her beginnings.

I’ve also included a selection of her incredible work. A true designer with limitless imagination…