Let's Build the Web We Want
General web technology post
Hey everybody, I’ve got a new book coming out. It’s called The Uncertain Web and it’s being published by O’Reilly. Right now we’re targeting a November release. Just in time for Christmas. Buy a dozen and hand them out like candy canes. If that seems like too long to wait, never fear. I’m about 50% […]
Have you ever seen an error message like this one? XML parsers are designed to call it quits as soon as they encounter an error. XML grammar is strict, so the parsers need to be strict too. This particular error is from an & in a URL. &s in URLs are super common occurrence, but […]
I’ve got a few topics relating to my experience at agencies that I’ve been looking to share for some time. Now that I’m going my own way as a consultant with the goal of maybe expanding on that as well as somehow helping out at an agency again; I’m going to start to work through […]
Sadly, I won’t be sharing a bunch of funny anecdotes from my time on the interview trail. While that might be fun, there are some bigger trends that I wanted to talk about after having reviewed dozens of job descriptions and talking to dozens of people at one level or another over the month of […]
As many of you know, my run at Wellington ended at the end of February. My contract wasn’t renewed for reasons beyond my control and that was that. No more suits, sadly.* One of the big problems with that contract ending was that the timing of it was a little abrupt. I found out just […]