Review of AdvancED CSS by Joseph Lewis
I’ve been looking for an advanced book on CSS with information that I don’t already know. I picked up AdvancED CSS by Joseph Lewis (aff link) on one of my book shopping sprees (yes I’m a dork). While coding books normally scare me with their boring-ness and irrelevance, AdvancED CSS was actually pretty interesting. The book...
Read more…Contribute Fridays: Mac or PC?
Let’s have a fun one this Friday! What are you, Mac or PC? I’m such a Mac it isn’t even funny
Read more…20 Things To Do When You’re Not Coding
There has been so much going on with my freelance for the past month that I’ve had little time to breathe. The lines between my work and personal life have blurred even more as I’ve been reading several great business books and listening to business podcasts on my downtime, as well as working on a...
Read more…The Importance of Patterns in Semantic CSS & HTML
You often hear developers talk about the importance of semantics, but do you know what “semantic” means? I’ve noticed that it tends to be an arbitrary word that’s thrown around the web by people trying to sound smart (I’m guilty of that too). You often hear that semantics are good for SEO and essential for proper and...
Read more…Useful (and free!) Code Snippets
I reviewed Coda a few months ago and have been using it ever since. It’s an awesome all-in-one IDE with Transmit for FTP and great plugin support. My favorite feature of Coda is Coda Clips, a similar feature was also introduced in Dreamweaver CS4. Coda Clips allows you to store snippets of code you use...
Read more…Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
It’s not often that I get excited about a business book. It just doesn’t happen, ever. That’s until I read “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?” by Seth Godin and got blown away. I was pretty disappointed with his Purple Cow book, so I figured this one wouldn’t be so great either. So much to my surprise,...
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