Posts Tagged ‘web development’
Hopefully, I’ll be retired by then…
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
And hopefully this will be my last discussion on the subject. You’ve seen it enough times (if you haven’t, I envy you). HTML5: 2022 (aka 2012). This created yet another pointless rift that I was temporarily part of last year where some people don’t want to touch it until 2022 and others are using it now. You know, I really hate the web. Why is this even a divisive issue I don’t know, but it is, it created an inane Twitter war between me and some agency where we both drank our respective Kool-Aid (I refused to support something that by the time it’s even in Candidate Recommendation will be outdated by some other new shiny object and they/he started using it immediately, or so they claimed.) and I did the adult thing, apologized, and tried to make amends. Didn’t happen, but that isn’t anything new. Of all the things I’ve read about HTML5, my favorite is this comment: “Hopefully, I’ll be retired by then.” Me, too.
Tags: html5 argument, rants, web development
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An Open Letter to Myself, Web/UX Designers & Developers
Monday, November 30th, 2009
Dear Development Community,
I was honestly a hobbyist in web design in development from 1996 – 2003, where I got my first job building a website. Granted, that was a freelance project and I wouldn’t have any professional experience until some years later, but for our sake I’ll say my early beginnings in freelancing count as professional experience.
Tags: community, open letter, requests, san antonio, ux development, web development
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Having my cake and eating it, too
Monday, November 3rd, 2008
I’m pretty fond of “from scratch” developing, but I decided, being a sole developer in cases, to check out some application frameworks on languages I already know. So in addition to Rails, I started using CakePHP, and it’s a pretty solid framework, but highlights some problems I have with PHP. Namely, everything uses arrays to a heavy degree. Granted, Rails does too, but it feels easier on the eyes and brain when you’re not trying to figure out an array within an array within an array within a class all using backwards-compatible PHP syntax.
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Tags: bexar county, cakephp, elections, houston, php, post office, rambling, san antonio, stupid, texas, usps, voting, web development
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