Archive for the ‘technical’ Category

Certification

Monday, September 20th, 2004

OK, I'm back from two weeks in Italy - refreshed, renergized, and ready to go. So what did I do on my first day back at work? Read a bit over at xprogramming.com, a resource I found through Ron Jeffries' book Extreme Programming Adventures in C#, and then spent an ...

Where’s Ben?

Tuesday, August 31st, 2004

So, it may have been obvious that I've been relatively absent from this blog for the last several weeks (and some time before that, actually). I've got an excuse! Really, I do! I got married on Saturday, and up until the day itself had been workin' on stuff for the ...

PHP5 - Anyone?

Tuesday, August 10th, 2004

OK, so what would you do if you had a nifty running-related application you wanted to share with people, but it was written in a bleeding edge technology that hasn't been implemented on any webhosts that you know of? You'd ask the RBF, of course! Anybody know of a webhost who's ...

Content, Structure, Presentation, and Behavior

Thursday, August 5th, 2004

As promised, I've continued to think about Jeremy's post on the :hover pseudo-class, and I think I know why I'm not so concerned about it as he is. As I see it, there are four atomic components to a web site: content, structure, presentation, and behavior. At various times and places, ...

Separating Behavior from Presentation?

Wednesday, August 4th, 2004

Jeremy's written up an interesting thought over at Adactio: is the :hover pseudo-class in CSS an inappropriate mixing of behavior and presentation? Basically, the idea is that CSS is the proper place to store presentation info about a document, (X)HTML is the proper place to store the content, and DOM ...