Ian Irving's Code and Culture from Toronto
TL;DR Current CSS Grid frameworks lead to HTML Class Vomit. Using SASS Mixin blocks Bourbon Neat fixes that, and allows practical Unobtrusive CSS, for clear(er) markup. Continue reading Unobtrusive CSS becomes practical and Neat.
TL;DR This is my journey, shared so you can learn from the mistakes I’ve made, from HTML vomit to clean(er) responsive and progressive web pages, built on frameworks of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript5. Done in the hope that you aren’t making then same mistakes. Continue reading A short and personal history of building web pages.
Mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, Kwai Lan Tam passed away peacefully surrounded by family on April 24th 2012 at the venerable age of 96. I have been greatly honoured to have her as my Mother-in-Law. Continue reading Kwai Lan Tam, 1916 – 2012
Twitter has just rolled out (very quietly this month) new trend locations for a total of 152, up from the previous 111. That’s the “World”, 34 Countries and 117 Cities! This is all up on the Twendr Global Trend Dashboard, Continue reading Twendr and Twitter Trends – Now in 41 more Locations for 152 places
Via TUAW comes news that Madrid’s visitors can rent tourist-friendly iPads from a business called Pad In The City, preloaded with a collection of Apps geared towards visitors to that Spanish city. Back in 2009, after traveling in Europe, I Continue reading The tripPad™ arrives in Madrid
Now browser sniffing is basically a bad thing but there is still a need to fix / hack issues on older browsers, in particular Internet Explorer. Okay, almost entirely in Internet Explorer. IE6 may be -mostly- dead, but IE8 will Continue reading Doing Conditional Comments for your Internet Explorer css fixes better, with HTML top tag classes