â2010â
My Year in Activities, 2010
31 activities, 0 vacation days. Mr Meiertâs guide on how to make good use of your time and make 1 year feel like 3.
#12 · adventure
Testing Tricks: CSS Bookmarklets
On complex development environments and CSS bookmarklets as a testing complement. Complement as in youâve done everything you can but want to err on the safe side.
#11 · · development, css
One Photo: Reset Style Sheets
It never gets boring.
#10 · development
The Secret of Web Development
Playfulness.
#9 · development
CSS: How to Host Right-to-Left Styling
For international projects, donât 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 rulesâŠ
#8 · · development, css, maintainability
On Solutions
Solutions require problems. If you donât have a problem, you donât need a solution. This is exactly why you should, whenever someone proposes a solutionâwhich includes design and technical changesâask what problem that solution solvesâŠ
#7 · · development, misc
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 âProperty -moz-border-radius doesnât existâââŠ
#6 · · development, css, conformance
Real Web Developers Donât Need Debugging Tools
Bottom line: Try to limit your use of web dev debugging toolsâlike Firebug or Chromeâs Developer Toolsâin order to grow your skills.
#5 · development
How to Relocate, the Alternative Guide
If thereâs one area of expertise Iâm only involuntarily linked with, itâs 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.
#4 · misc
âpxâ Is Dead, Long Live âpxâ
Itâs 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.
#3 · · development, css
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 thereâs still to learn for me this makes me blush. Chronically short on time I typically reply in just a few sentencesâŠ
#2 · development
WDR #4: Having Conversations in HTTP
The Web Dev Report, issue #4.
#1 · development