Articles from August 2009

21.08.09
Programming vs Web Programming
Written by Robert Wild 
in Developing
Stupid Comment

Every now and then I get a spare 5minutes to catch u with a few of my favourite blogs. I haven't researched into many, but have been either referred to by close industry colleagues, or simple stumbled across by accident.

Once such stumble is the Coding Horror blog, written by a chap called Jeff Atwood. The whole Coding Horror blog has its own widget for your iGoogle account and makes a compelling read.

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14.08.09
Who cares about source code
Written by Robert Wild 
in Developing
Worse HTML Bloat ever!!

Admittedly I am very particular coder, I do my best to work to the 'web standards' – by which I mean those set by the W3C, I validate all my code against the online tools provided by this service. But making your code validate is not too difficult a task, in comparison making it validate and also work in IE is far more challenging! I also try and keep my code as minimal and light weight as possible, I shorthand all my CSS, re-use common classes and build the HTML is a logical and easily identifiable way.

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04.08.09
Turn your house into a home
Written by Lynne Bramwell 
in Current Affairs

As an avid watcher of home-makeover shows I have noticed a new trend in TV shows. For years the focus has been on getting your home ready to sell and to make it as neutral as possible. Now that people are staying where they are because of the current economic climate the shows are concentrating on “turning your house into a home” and injecting some individuality into it.

I suppose working in a design studio does make you more adventurous in your decorating but our own house has always been full of colour and individuality. One of the bedrooms, which has been a children's bedroom over the years, has actually been decorated no less than five times in the twelve years that we've lived in the house – the quickest makeover being when we stapled animal print material to all the walls and completely transformed the room in one afternoon.

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