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• “Professional” Work Experience

  June 21st, 2008 at 1:06am | 3 Comments

  When I was out looking for a job last December, I met with quite a few recruiting firms here in town. I was rather surprised that none of them were interested in anything I did prior to obtaining my Computer Science degree. They were only interested in hearing about jobs that I had after graduating ... read more »

  Tags: professional • web-design • web-development • work experience

• Redesigning zenutech.com

  April 8th, 2008 at 11:12am | No Comments

  Last week I launched the newest incarnation of zenutech.com. The last redesign was three years ago, used table layouts, a lot of image files, and as a result was really sluggish. It’s definitely not good when your site takes almost ten seconds to load and you’re marketing speedy web hosting. A fresh new design with ... read more »

  Tags: semantic markup • smarty • web-design • web-development • WordPress

• Firefox 3: Smoother, quicker, better

  March 31st, 2008 at 12:35pm | 1 Comment

  Since the Firefox 3 Beta 1 release in November, I have been following the release notes of each subsequent beta release but have been reluctant to install it for a couple of reasons: Installing Firefox 3 Beta overwrites your Firefox 2 install so you can’t have both versions on the same machine Firebug (my favorite ... read more »

  Tags: beta • Firefox • mozilla • software • web browser • web-development

• HTML Validator Debugger

  March 3rd, 2008 at 1:28pm | 3 Comments

  In Jeff Croft’s latest article, he rants a bit about how some people (i.e. “assholes”) point out errors in another developer’s markup, publicly humiliating them. Although much of it was venting, his post does bring up an important point that I have been meaning to write about. That is, a markup validator (like the W3C’s ... read more »

  Tags: CSS • debugging • HTML • markup validator • w3c • web standards • web-development

• WDN08 kicks off

  January 30th, 2008 at 1:27pm | No Comments

  This morning I arrived at the conference, registered, picked up my totebag full of swag, and instantly ran into some folks I met at the conference last year. It was great to see some familiar faces and I’m looking forward to catching up. The swag bag this year actually contained a couple of really cool ... read more »

  Tags: conference • vancouver • wdn • wdn08 • web standards • web-design • web-development • Web-Directions-North

• Attending Web Directions North 2008

  January 28th, 2008 at 9:08pm | No Comments

  I doubted I was going to make it to Web Directions North this year, but as I just wrote, things have changed for me in the past few months. My new employer has been generous enough to send me to the conference and I couldn’t be happier to be returning for a second year. I’m ... read more »

  Tags: conference • vancouver • wdn • wdn08 • web-design • web-development • Web-Directions-North

• Working from home, not for me

  January 28th, 2008 at 8:42pm | 1 Comment

  In July last year, I started working full-time for my company, Zenutech Inc. I knew working from home would be a bit of an adjustment, but I couldn’t have predicted the challenges. At first it was great. Get up around 9am, shower, eat, and install myself at my desk for the day. Then after a ... read more »

  Tags: Business • employment • productivity • working from home • Zenutech

• WordPress 2.5 “Zeldman” Coming Soon

  January 22nd, 2008 at 12:42am | 2 Comments

  Original illustration by Sergio Villarreal. There’s been quite a bit of buzz about the redesign of the WordPress Admin for the 2.5 release due in March, that I can only assume will be code named “Zeldman”. Although the small improvements with each release have helped, the WordPress Admin has needed some attention for a while ... read more »

  Tags: usability • wdn08 • web-design • web-development • Web-Directions-North • WordPress • zeldman