On this last week's episode of DiggNation, Alex and Kevin discussed my article, 9 Signs You Shouldn't Hire THAT Web Guy. Kevin agrees with all of my assertions -- sweet! The segment about my article starts at about the 20 minute mark.
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Thank you to Kevin and Alex for taking the time to comment about my article!
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Kids these days, I tell ya. All they care about is the technology. The video games. The bottled water. Oh, and the texting, always the texting. Back in my day, all we had was...OK, I had all of these things too. But I still don't get...
The idea of CSS sprites is pretty genius. For those of you who don't know the idea of a sprite, a sprite is basically multiple graphics compiled into one image. The advantages of using sprites are: Fewer images for the browser to download, which means...
I was recently scoping out the horrid source code of the Google homepage when I noticed the "Google Search" and "I'm Feeling Lucky" buttons had a style definition I hadn't seen before: -webkit-appearance. The value assigned to the style was "push-button." They are buttons so that...
Wow, that is awesome!
That’s so cool, congrats!
I wish our player had chapter marks so you could point people right to the beginning. Thanks for embedding!
jim
Wow, Impressive. I’m one of those lurkers:) I read all you’re entries although most of the time I haven’t a clue what you are talking about;) But I’m learning. Thanks for sharing.
ellen from ireland
Thank you for commenting Jim, and thank Kevin and Alex for me.