My favorite thing about web developer is the problem solving. As a kid who did logic puzzles all afternoon and then went on to have calculus be a favorite class, that’s been the clearest guiding light in my dev career so far. It shouldn’t be much of a surprise then how much I was looking forward ...
It was really in my first job out of grad school when I learned what has become the most important and most difficult lesson for modern life. I think it was in one of my first performance reviews there at 1Sky. The review was positive overall, though my manager, our digital director, identified s...
Being both a front end developer and a pedant, I’ve been excited about the idea of good, maintainable style guides for a while now. The promise is amazing: future development made easier to extend and harder to screw up thanks to comprehensive documentation of all the styles the site needs. Patte...
I’d hazard a bet that upwards of 90% or more of web developers working today have an unbuilt idea. There was that one day in a brainstorming session, in a coffee shop, stuck in traffic, or on the john when an thought struck. Wouldn’t it be great if there was…
I’ve been lucky enough to be asked to speak on a few professional topics in my careers, but I don’t think I found a talk I’ve given as interesting and useful as this one. A couple of weeks ago, I spoke to our local web development Meetup group about a pretty elementary topic: HTML5 semantic struc...