Where are the web development courses at colleges?
Posted Jan 28th, 2009 by admin
I keep hearing about these off-the-wall classes such as the new “Game Theory in Starcraft” at UC Berkeley, but where are the really useful cutting edge classes that teach you about useful things such as frontend web development?
Sure, there are tons of classes for hardcore C++, Java, and maybe even PHP, but there’s nothing that [...]
“Divitus” and “classitus”
Posted Jan 24th, 2009 by admin
When you’re just starting with CSS, one of the things you’ll notice emphasized is the pattern of using divs instead of tables. This is because historically, divs layout replaced table layouts. But this has also lead to a misconception: that you should rely mostly on divs to present your content. This overuse of div elements [...]
All you need is <!doctype html>
Posted Nov 29th, 2008 by admin
One of the first things I learned at my internship over the summer was the difference between Standards and Quirks mode. Basically, the idea behind quirks mode is for browsers to be backwards-compatible. If a webpage is missing a DOCTYPE tag or has some sort of “transitional” doctype tag, the page will be rendered according [...]
Video: Douglas Crockford, “Web Forward”
Posted Nov 18th, 2008 by admin
Douglas Crockford: “Web Forward” @ Yahoo! Video
Check this out! I was there! I’m the guy fiddling around with the camera in the front row, half paying attention
Basic HTML template
Posted Oct 23rd, 2008 by admin
This is basically for my own use, but others might find it useful as well:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title></title>
<meta name="keywords" content="" lang="en-us" />
<meta name="title" content="" lang="en-us" />
<meta name="description" content="" lang="en-us" />
<meta name="robots" content="all" />
<meta name="author" content="" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" charset="UTF-8" href="" />
<script type="text/javascript" charset="UTF-8" src="" />
</head>
<body lang="en-us">
</body>
</html>
And some [...]
How to make a perfect semantic HTML table
Posted Jul 31st, 2008 by admin
I’ve been sitting in on a few Juku classes hosted by Christian Heilmann this week at the Yahoo headquarters in Sunnyvale. This portion of the Juku training is a two week look at DOM scripting and Yahoo’s YUI. Just as review, we went over what makes a nice semantic HTML table. I figured it [...]
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