January’s 12412: Researching LESS & SASS
My first 12412 project was to research and learn about SASS. After the recommendation from several people, I also decided to check into LESS. I’d been hearing a lot about the two techniques and was quite skeptical – in fact it seems I’m often skeptical of new things out on the web. Most frameworks, shims...
Read more…12412 – Experience and Learn 12 New Web Technologies in 12 Months
I stumbled across 12412.org when looking at Paul Davis’s work. Consisting of three developers including Paul, Anthony Killeen, and Stephen Fulljames, 12412 aims to log their activities throughout 2012 as they choose a new technology or technique every month to learn and play with. I thought this was a fantastic idea. I’ve had an insanely...
Read more…Review of CSS For Print Designers by JD Graffam
I met JD Graffam a few years back at Barcamp Memphis, though I doubt he remembers me. So I was fairly surprised to see his name when I picked up a copy of CSS for Print Designers. His book, targeted obviously to code newbies with a background of print design, was something I wouldn’t normally...
Read more…Update 2011 Conference Recap
I spent last week in beautiful England attending the Update 2011 Conference, thanks to all of your awesome donations last month. I wanted to make sure that I jotted as many notes and photos as possible for those of you who were unable to make the conference. The conference, put on by Aral Balkan, was...
Read more…Think Vitamin Membership Review–Great Way to Expand Your Web Knowledge
I’ve been investing a lot of my time lately on learning new things. I prefer to stay a front-end developer, but I’ve always wanted to play in different languages and keep up to date with design trends. Following long how-to books really isn’t my thing, as I usually end up falling asleep before the first...
Read more…Google+: The Facebook Killer or another spam-inbox-to-death-with-notifications system?
A couple of days ago Google released their social network answer named Google+. For those that have yet to crawl out from under the rocks they have been living under, head on over to plus.google.com to signup and get access to it to see what it’s about. For the rest of us, read on… Google+...
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