My Year in Activities, 2010

31 activities, 0 vacation days. Mr Meiert’s guide on how to make good use of your time and make 1 year feel like 3.

Published on December 30, 2010, filed under Adventure.

Testing Tricks: CSS Bookmarklets

On complex development environments and CSS bookmarklets as a testing complement. Complement as in you’ve done everything you can but want to err on the safe side.

Published on December 29, 2010, filed under Development.

One Photo: Reset Style Sheets

It never gets boring.

Published on December 24, 2010, filed under Development.

The Secret of Web Development

Playfulness.

Published on October 27, 2010, filed under Development.

CSS: How to Host Right-to-Left Styling

For international projects, don’t use separate style sheets for right-to-left (RTL) styling: use natural (@dir) or artificial (@id, @class) hooks instead. The only exception are unbearable performance issues due to hundreds of RTL rules…

Published on September 30, 2010, filed under Development.

On Solutions

Solutions require problems. If you don’t have a problem, you don’t need a solution. This is exactly why you should, whenever someone proposes a solution—which includes design and technical changes—ask what problem that solution solves…

Published on July 7, 2010, filed under Development and Everything Else.

CSS Validation and Vendor Extensions: Throw Warnings, Not Errors

If you understand valid code as a quality baseline, you validate your code. If you validate style sheets, you come across errors like “Property -moz-border-radius doesn’t exist’”…

Published on June 26, 2010, filed under Development.

Real Web Developers Don’t Need Debugging Tools

Bottom line: Try to limit your use of web dev debugging tools—like Firebug or Chrome’s Developer Tools—in order to grow your skills.

Published on May 14, 2010, filed under Development.

How to Relocate, the Alternative Guide

If there’s one area of expertise I’m only involuntarily linked with, it’s moving. I moved 25 times so far, spanning cities, countries, and now continents; my career stats mean .81 relocations per year, or 1.24 years per relocation. Some lessons I learned.

Published on March 2, 2010, filed under Everything Else.

“px” Is Dead, Long Live “px”

It’s over. There is no ban on px anymore. The only reason why we as web developers had to adjust coding practices were user agents that failed to meet user agent accessibility guidelines.

Published on February 23, 2010, filed under Development.

How to Become a Solid Web Developer, the Short Version

Every once in a while people ping me on how to master web development and design. Given how much there’s still to learn for me this makes me blush. Chronically short on time I typically reply in just a few sentences…

Published on February 12, 2010, filed under Development.

WDR #4: Having Conversations in HTTP

The Web Dev Report, issue #4.

Published on January 12, 2010, filed under Development.