As a website grows, form design can rapidly become a convoluted process of CSS hacks and overwrites. Building a scalable, object-oriented framework from the beginning provides developers and authors a simple API for building their own forms that adhere to style guidelines and development guidelines.
In changing my habits around writing CSS, I’ve slowly adopted an object-oriented approach that outright rejects the “cascade” part of “cascading style sheets”.
Sick of crappy sound on a crappy Dell laptop, the wife and I went out and spent entirely too much money on a sound system that pumps up the jams. Now music listening is an experience all its own.
Sometimes, the most debilitating nightmares are the most effective reminders.
Another year, another batch of great reading. Web nerdery was dominated by ALA books; next year, it won’t be. Far more success was found in fiction: I read four awesome books that I’d recommend to anyone.