Video From My CSS Presentation at Boston PHP

And here it is: CSS 101 from Matt Murphy on Vimeo. Slides. It’s pretty good- minus the difficult with actually showing the jsfidddle code on the projector.

More On Interviewing Front End Engineers- If You Ask About Something, Really KNOW It (With an Example Based on the W3C Box Model)

I’m going to be writing a bit more about practical development topics here over the next few weeks. Code is fun to write about but code takes time. Sharing my experience and opinions on the day-to-day life of a front end engineer I can do with a little less effort. Also, since I’ve been doing […]

Yahoo!’s Graded Browser Support to Downgrade IE6 in Q1 2011

I’m a big fan of the Graded Browser Support table from the fine folks at Yahoo! It was the official foundation for our browser support policy at Cramer and I still look to it now for hints into what one of the most mass-market of all sites thinks about the browser landscape.

Interviewing With Me? Here’s an Easter Egg. I’ll ask you this JavaScript Question During the Interview.

We’re hiring in my group. Cool, right? So, I’m once again interviewing. Yay me. Since I’m no longer running a group I don’t have to worry about any of the administrative type things (“this is what the company is about,” “this is what we do,” etc.) That’s good as it just allows me to test […]

HTML5Boilerplate 0.95 Released. Please Break the Build Script.

The latest version of HTML5 Boilerplate was released and the build script I worked on is included as a beta feature. I’m happy to see it in the wild even though it reminds me that I’ve got a couple of outstanding enhancements I want to take care of at some point (soon? *fingers crossed*) Anyway, […]