Thanks to Everyone Who Came out to my CSS Talk

Look at all of the people that showed up for little old me: Sweet. Here are the slides. I’ll have some video soon (either of this one or of the upcoming version I’m giving at Design Camp Boston.) Thanks to the folks from Boston PHP for the opportunity and to the guys over Bocoup for […]

Recent Reading (JS Natives Duke it Out, Regexp in jQuery, Performance, a New Image Format?)

Sorry, it’s been a while. I’ve been busy at work, I’ve been wringing every last bit out of summer on my bike, and I’ve spent a lot of my free time on my upcoming CSS presentation, so I haven’t been posting as much as I would like. Fall is here. Which means I should have […]

Ant. Ant? Really?

Quick, if you were to guess a technology I’d be making commits on an open source project using, would Apache Ant be at the top of the list? I didn’t think so. But yet, here I am committing an Ant Build script to Paul’s excellent HTML5 Boilerplate project. It makes sense since I’ve done work […]

Me, Talking About HTML5, Flash, and the Cloud as Part of the Isobar 50

What’s the Isobar 50? Glad you asked: Got questions? Get answers! Let’s face it. Marketing in the digital age is hard. Where will you put your efforts? How do you know it will pay off? The Isobar 50 is our list of the top 50 challenges that online marketers are grappling with today, and our […]

How To Make a Web Site the Modern Way. Part 14: Formatting, Shorthand, Resets and Organization

We continue with our examination of CSS with some real basics- formatting, writing rules, organization and the like. Nothing groundbreaking, but the basics are important in any endeavor, so here they are. Formatting During development I format my CSS with selectors on one line and then each property on its own line. The declarations are […]