“Forms suck.  If you don’t believe me, try to find people who like filling them in.”
Are you kidding, I paid for a book that begins like that?  My first reaction was that I could have written that!  Well I didn’t write it, and I also feel that I got my money’s worth out of Web […]

Last weekend, I FINALLY had a chance to clean my room, and I’m pleased with the results.  Really, though, this post is just an excuse to do one of those “this is my desk, this is my bookshelf” posts that everyone seems to do. 

My favorite books are mostly at the top (actually, there’s […]

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been playing around with Django.  Because of that, I’ve been looking at a few different books on the subject.  I first started out with the Django Book, which took me a few days to read.  I can’t say I absorbed it all, but I got the general idea.  Then […]

When I came across High Performance Web Sites; Essential Knowledge for Frontend Engineers on Amazon, I was excited. I’ve been actively using the Yslow plugin for Firebug, and was interested in finding out more. At the day job I can’t implement each of the 14 rules myself, however the plugin is useful none-the-less. It’s terrific […]

Started reading through Advanced DOM Scripting by Jeffrey Sambells. Normally would wait to comment until I got to the end, but I am excited that he mentioned both the scope chain and closures in the first chapter! As my sister would say, “Sweet Lovin!”

I created a fresh installation and played around with it for a little while. Upon moving these Wordpress posts over, it broke. Since I still had all of my pieces lined up, I removed everything and did a second fresh install. Posting broke that one too. I guess that I am going to have to […]