Congratulations to The Guardian for making me write a blog post. It’s coming up to Christmas, and like all newspapers The Guardian have a Christmas Gift Guide. It actually looks quite nice, with well-sized images, responsive layout, good filtering and obligatory...

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Actually, please don’t do that, I’ll have to get off my bum and look for another job. It is, however, part of the conversation I’ll be having in my parallel session titled “What’s the Point of having Developers in a Web 2.0 World?” at

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Trying to render this post on the Surfin’ Safari blog. *sigh* Posted from

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Although I’d stopped using it in the main part, I noticed the other day that allconsuming.net was down. As Erik Benson explains, his server was broken into and he was locked out. One excellent outcome of this is the following information: I’m in the proce...

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It seems like forever since I posted about CSS and web development in general, but I’m sure it’ll pick up again when I move onto rewriting our corporate site. 🙂 In the meantime, there are a couple of things I picked out of Dunstan’s blogmarks that I think are worth pointing out:

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Side-stepping IE is the latest article from Dave Shea and quite nicely summarises ways around some of the more common IE bugbears such as font-sizes, min- and max-width issues and using a .htc file to enable :hover on any element (which of course Mozilla and

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I recently started a new job at Zoo Digital Group, employed as a Java and Web developer. There are a few other Java developers here (although the main trade-in-stock is C++), but I’m now the web development department. Me. This is actually quite good, and I’ve enjoyed the work I’ve had to do so far, but now a couple of others have had to star...

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I’m a web developer and I test stuff locally, hence a lot of the time I’m looking at http://localhost. I use Firebird as my default browser, which has keyword searching built into the address bar, so every time I go to localhost and my web app server is not running I get thrown to the highly classy http://www.localhost.com.au. Fortunately this can be disabled. Type “about:co...

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I’ve written a lot tonight and it’s getting late, but to wrap up: No Fishing – yes. Semantics, HTML, XHTML, and Structure – this is excellent stuff for educating the unwashed masses of web developers who still think tables are the be-all and end-all and hav...

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Recent Roundup: The Absolute Minimum Every ‘The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)’ Author Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets

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