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Recent Reading (JS Natives Duke it Out, Regexp in jQuery, Performance, a New Image Format?)
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…
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How To Make a Web Site the Modern Way. Part 12: Cascading Style Sheets
After a long break, I’m finally back with the long-awaited CSS portion of this little series. In this article I’ll go over some core concepts. Next post I’ll outline one poorly understood, but vital part of CSS. More posts full (yes, full) of tips, tricks and best practices will follow. Core concepts CSS is a…
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My Personal View of Browser Market Share is Pretty Sweet- Firefox Rules, Chrome is Massive, IE6 is Nearly Dead
Here are the numbers for DrunkenFist.com in the year 2009. There were 614,333 visits to that domain last year and the top browsers broke down like this: Browser # of Visits % of Visits Firefox 342429 55% Internet Explorer 162977 26% Chrome 35801 5.8% Safari 33545 5.4% Opera 22826 3.7%
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HTML5 + WordPress Resource Links From my WordCamp Boston Presentation
Owing to the contrast on the A/V system, my last slide was illegible, so here are all the links that folks couldn’t see. The presentation itself: HTML5 + WordPress And the resource links: The working group http://www.whatwg.org/ Mark Pilgrim’s HTML5 book Dive into HTML5 The Modernizr library Modernizr The outliner http://gsnedders.html5.org/outliner/ The post talking about…
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Two Front End Development Interview Questions No One Has Been Getting Recently + One I’m Afraid to Even Ask
Yes, I’m still helping out with screening candidates. I haven’t yet interviewed someone to replace me, but there’s still a week to go. Anyway, we’ve had a couple of technical questions that candidates universally failed to answer. Why share them here? For starters I just want to know if we’re crazy to expect people to…