Tag Archives: best practices

“Use Browser X”? Spare Me This Mockery of Justice!

March 18, 2013 – 12:28 pm

Today, I experienced something that, as a web developer, really burns my blood. When I inquired about a specific web application’s flaws within a certain web browser, I was informed that I should be using “browser X” instead. As the doomed Transformer proclaimed when condemned to the Quintesson pit in Transformers: the Movie, “Spare me [...]

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Need to Help Others Understand Twitter? Have an “Elevator Pitch”

March 5, 2012 – 10:00 pm

You’ve heard it all before: “Why should I join Twitter? Who cares what I had for lunch?” or “What am I supposed to talk about?” or, even better, “We don’t have time for our staff to be playing around on Twitter all day.” It’s not like Twitter is the new kid on the block anymore; [...]

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Some Helpful Advice from a Nitpicky Web Developer

June 2, 2011 – 1:21 pm

Ever heard the phrase “the devil’s in the details?” I’m here to tell you it’s true! For every clean, elegant, and professionally designed website or web application, there are droves of slipshod, sloppy, or just plain lazy pieces of code I encounter every week. What pains me most is that many of these quirks are [...]

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