Let's Build the Web We Want
General web technology post
Two caveats before I dive into this one. For starters, the following is what I’m generally interested in when doing an interview. It doesn’t represent in any official way what my current employer and my boss might be looking for in a candidate. It’s not my group, so this is only part of the picture. […]
Following up on my previous post about the generic types of front end engineers, this post will deal with the common roles that I see people trying to fill. Unlike the previous list which was written solely from the perspective of a front end engineer, looking at the actual skill sets of the people whose […]
This came up in a comment here, so I thought I’d bubble this little tip to the top. To target multiple files for URL rewriting in the HTML5 Boilerplate build script (as of version 0.95) use the fileset element instead of the file argument in the “html” target: You then need to expand the fileset […]
As both a hiring manager and as a potential employee, I’ve seen both sides of the interview/hiring process and have noticed some definite categories when it comes to the type of people filling the roles and the roles themselves. This post deals with the types of people. I’ll follow up with a post outlining the […]
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.