8+ Stereotypes about Freelance Web Developers–Busted
Every industry has its share of stereotypes and web developers aren’t an exception. While poking fun of these stereotypes amongst ourselves is a fun pastime, it can quickly get out of hand when it’s a client or someone outside the development industry who becomes biased thanks to them. Just like everything else, freelance web developers aren’t...
Read more…The HTML5 Logo & Why You Shouldn’t Use It
Last week the W3C came out with the HTML5 logo. The logo itself is actually really nice looking (and yes I want the t-shirt!), but unfortunately the neat design is now worthless. Yup the W3C decided that it wanted to lump in every new technology with HTML5, making it seem as if you couldn’t use one without...
Read more…Fire Up Your Coding With A Text Expander
A text expander program can be used in numerous ways to increase your productivity. If you find yourself repeatedly typing the same snippet of code for every website you create, why not make it easier on your fingers? The text expander allows you to assign an abbreviation of your choice that when typed, is automatically...
Read more…What Happens When the Website You Are Working on Blows Up?
It’s every developer’s nightmare. You finally get approval from the client to go live and launch the client’s website and then BOOM! Something happens and the whole site blows up. I recently had this scenario happen. Thankfully, the site wasn’t live yet, but the client still expected me to fix the site, with no offer...
Read more…Beginning jQuery: Your First Clean Tabbed Plugin
I’ve been spending a lot of time learning jQuery the past couple of weeks and I’ve never realized just how fun it is to work with (at least when it is working right) and I’ve already been able to write several of my own functions and plugins. The other day I wrote a basic tab...
Read more…Why I Love The Dev Community – Always
Yesterday I wrote an angry article about Why I Hate The Dev Community – Sometimes thanks to another article of mine being in the middle of a flame war. I realized that it wasn’t fair to talk about all things I hated about our community without also expanding upon all the awesome high points of...
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