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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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How To Make a Web Site the Modern Way. Part 13: The Cascade/CSS Specificity
One of the most important things in CSS is understanding the way rules are inherited and applied in the browser. This is one of those things that many developers “get” intuitively but don’t necessarily understand at a granular level. There’s actually an algorithm, so if you’re stumped, you can actually count it out. It works…