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The latest version of HTML5 Boilerplate was released and the build script I worked on is included as a beta feature. I’m happy to see it in the wild even though it reminds me that I’ve got a couple of outstanding enhancements I want to take care of at some point (soon? *fingers crossed*)
Anyway, check it out and definitely take the build script for a spin. Know Ant and want to help out? Want to port it to another build system (that would be awesome)? Dive in. We’re happy for the help.
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 hosting.
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 more time for writing. That’s cool.
Anyway, to break the ice here are a few articles that have recently caught my attention.
Continue reading “Recent Reading (JS Natives Duke it Out, Regexp in jQuery, Performance, a New Image Format?)”
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 on concatenation, minification and other performance enhancements using Ant, but it’s still a weird technology to be contributing to such a cool project with…
What’s the Isobar 50? Glad you asked:
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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 recommendations for dealing with them. If you’re an online marketer, this is the place to get answers to your most pressing marketing and online business questions.
I provided answers for three of the questions and I even sound like I know what I’m talking about:
Continue reading “Me, Talking About HTML5, Flash, and the Cloud as Part of the Isobar 50”