I know developers of both sexes don’t have a reputation for being the most socially adept creatures. But would it hurt male developers like Mark Jaquith to try to not piss female developers off?
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What–I don’t even: Comment tags and HTML5
I have complained that the HTML5 spec is too blog-centric ever since my beloved dialong tag got cut. But apparently it’s not blog-centric enough to have a comment tag. In HTML5, we’re supposed to markup comments as articles nested within the article they comment on. I see a number of ways this method could fail, both in implementation and interpretation.
Read More...New Year, New Company, New Site
Somehow I managed to change jobs just at the beginning of 2012. I’ve built this new site, shut down my old, and have embarked on yet another leg of my career journey. Year of the Dragon, I’m going to kick your ass.
Read More...Between the head and the hand there must be User Experience
Recently at the Web Professional’s Book Club some of my cohorts professed a lack of faith in “UX” or “User Experience” professionals, casting them alongside SEO salesmen. I was shocked. In all my career, I have always looked up to UXers as a sort of glowing stag in the forest of the Internet. We are surrounded by bad design and clumsy interfaces. I always imagined user experience designers as the people behind the bright spots on the Internet, a force to be respected and emulated. So naturally I was a bit bewildered. Do we really need User Experience Designers? I think so.
Read More...Are Startups Worse as Single-Gender Affairs?
Penelope Trunk’s op ed “Are Startups Better as Single-Gender Affairs?” article raised a few eyebrows and a few voices in the female web workers community. My two cents? People are people, and startups should be like families, not monocultures.
Read More...Of WordPress, comics, and webdesign: Speaking at function pink() and NC Dev Con
I’m giving two talks in the next two months: a workshop on WordPress theme development and a talk about telling your site’s story with words and pictures based on my experience as a cartoonist. Do pop by and have a look if you’re in Raleigh!
Read More...Don’t wiggle away from responsibility
When we must confront something negative, like letting a client down on a deadline, or telling a junior to get back to work on a task, we want to slither away and hide under a rock until… until what? The difficulty passes? It doesn’t pass. It just gets bigger and harder to avoid.
Read More...Responsive Design vs. the (real) World
I do not think responsive design a the be-all and end-all solution for the mobile web, and by “mobile web” I mean “the web on small screens over sluggish connections.” But I think media queries are actually one of the best things to happen to web design in recent years, right up there with decent font embedding.
Read More...Simple Steps To WordPress Security Talk
WordCamp Raleigh 2011 Word Press Security Talk View more presentations from Rachel Nabors Other WordPress Security Resources Block snoopy bots with Jeff Starr’s list of 6 great .htaccess bot-blocking techniques at Digging into WordPress Move your WordPress installation out of your root directory with Jeff Starr’s tutorial at Digging into WordPress Password Management software: [...]
Read More...I’ll be speaking about Security at WordCamp Raleigh in May
I’ll be giving a talk on Simple Steps to WordPress Security at WordCamp Raleigh on Saturday, May 1st, from 11am to 12pm. Come, join me, and we shall make the Internet a safer, less hackable space!
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