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 […]

HTML5: What You Should Be Using Right Now

Continuing our examination of HTML5, this time we’ll take a slightly deeper look at the state of HTML5 support in browsers. We’ll step through several major features, examine the technical hurdles in place, identify the level of browser support and finally provide some recommendations on whether or not to pull the trigger with that shiny […]

I’m Going to be Presenting at Design Camp Boston

I’m going to be presenting my Intro to CSS talk at Design Camp Boston on November 6, 2010. It’s at NERD. If you can’t make my Boston PHP Meetup version of the presentation, here’s your chance. Failing that, make sure to say hi if you’re there, because I’ll be around all day taking in the […]