It’s that time of the year again and the guys at 24 ways have been delivering daily presents. Check out the three articles to date: Tasty Text Trimmer, Faster Development with CSS Constants and Flickr Photos On Demand with getFlickr. Christmas-y indeed.

And speaking of christmas presents, this Eboy poster so needs to be under the tree in a few days. It packs a lot of “Web 2.0″ (bubbles included), and if you look closely, you’ll see our logo design for Techcrunch on the left, above the Myspace logo. Awesome!

Over at the always great Adaptive Path weblog, Chiara Fox has an essay about tagging vs cataloging. And keep an eye out for her next one which she hints about on the darker side of tagging.

For the developers, there’s a good roundup of tools for intermixing Ruby and Amazon’s services over at the AWS weblog. From libraries to example projects, there’s a little bit of everything. This week we’ll be posting about our experience launching Goplan on Amazon’s EC2.

Luke has a good series of articles on being a Design Strategist (here’s part 2) over at Functioning Form which you should definitely read if you’re in the field. In fact, if you don’t subscribe to Luke’s essays, you should start by doing just that.

Over at the Texas Startup Blog, Frank Demmler has a great piece about Hiring the right people – he highlights some of the overlooked parts on the process, and more importantly, has a few good tips for starting entrepreneurs.