Help Wanted: Please Test the New @h5bp Ant Build Script Image Optimization Flow

I reworked the way images are optimized in the Ant Build Script. After all the work I’d done to get it to 1.0 I discovered that a lot of the features we added to the image optimization process, coupled with a few hacks I threw in there myself, had made the image optimization tasks wonky […]

Quick Note: I’ve Got a Few Posts on Amazon’s tech.book(store)

I’ve written three articles for them. The first two are up now: Recommended HTML5 and Open Web Platform Books In which I recommend books that I think are pretty good for HTML5 and general front end engineering. Spoiler alert! I recommend my own book. I happen to think it’s pretty good so I’m not going […]

Beginning HTML and CSS is O-U-T

I’ve mentioned it on Google+ and Twitter. I should probably mention it here: Beginning HTML and CSS is out. It came out yesterday. Here’s proof: The book looks great. I’m really happy with it. Are there things I wish I could redo? Sure. Of course. But overall, based on what I had to work with […]

H5BP Ant Build Script v1.0 Released

After a year of living as its own repo, contributions from a bunch of people and a flurry of activity from yours truly over the past month*, I just released the 1.0 version of the H5BP Ant Build Script. Download a zip or browse the code on github. Moving to semantic versioning was a good […]

#$#@ It, We’ll Do It Live.

First off, Happy New Year! Second off, I finished my second book. Third off, I’m starting a new job on Monday. More on that later. Teaser? I’ll no longer have to worry about looking too nice at work. Fourth off, I’m going to try to rework all of my sites this year. Oh snap. I’m […]