Transparency, Inspection, and Adaptation
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Css for Developers from Dallas TechFest
Aug 16, 2011 -
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Here are some of my take aways from Eric Sowell’s presentation at theDallas Tech Fest
- Semantic markup makes reading html simpler
- Modernizer of Html5Shim make older browsers work with semantic tags
- Using a “css reset” can save you lots of grief and frustration
The css reset Eric used came from Eric Meyer’s site. I’ve seen settings in the Blueprint Css style sheets.
I also heard the phrase “In general, you should be more specific;. That sounds rather odd, but given a context of trying to cascade styles to UI elements, it makes more sense. When you can be more specific with your selectors, you will be less surprised by the result.
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The Flat Tire Principle for Source Control
May 10, 2011 -
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The Flat Tire Principle for Source Control
Here’s an oldie but a a goody by Eric Hexter on why you should source control your dependencies and 3rd party libraries. He uses an automobile which carries all the tools required to replace a flat tire to illustrate how we should treat our source control systems. Anything that code depends on to do it’s job should be stored in the same version control system right along side of the code.
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Why Johnny can’t build a decent user interface.
Apr 23, 2011 -
1 min read
Why Johnny can’t build a decent user interface.An interesting read by Jeffrey Ellis that I picked up from a @shanselman tweet. It is a reminder of why I write software -> for end users to get something done. There’s a list of questions that I need to keep top of mind when developing applications:
+Who are the users
+What are their goals
+What are their tasks
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About
Jan 1, 0001 -
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Born in Vermont, Barry grew up outside Orlando, Florida. He actually did work for a “Mickey Mouse” outfit during high school as a “Food & Beverage Host” in Fantasy Land of the Magic Kingdom.
Barry is a fan of automobile racing in many flavors. He also enjoys wondering aimlessly, accompanied by Silvia, through wooded areas or parched deserts, pointing a camera at wild critters, bees, birds and anything else that may catch their eye.
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