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- SlidesSeptember 7
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I’m sitting here in Building 40 at Google, waiting for this morning’s first DjangoCon keynote to start, and getting ready for the Django technical design panel which comes immediately afterward. Naturally, I’m taking advantage of the down time (and Google’s bandwidth) to upload my slides from yesterday’s talk. If you’ve seen/read the slides from the version of this talk I gave at PyCon, I can tell you that ...
- Database heresiesAugust 3
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While scanning reddit, I saw an article pop up by Jeff Davis lamenting the way most people interact with databases, particularly when it comes to ORMs. Jeff seems to be pointing out (and, to an extent, conflating) two issues:
- At the moment, programming languages and SQL don’t really mesh all that well.
- Most people, in Jeff’s opinion, take the wrong approach to working with a database from their programming language of choice ...
- Let's talk about DVCSJuly 28
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So, a few years ago all the cool kids were switching from CVS to Subversion. These days, all the cool kids are switching from Subversion to some form of distributed version control; git and Mercurial seem to be the ones with the largest market shares. This switch is being accompanied by a simply deafening amount of hype about DVCS and how it’s a revolutionary new paradigm and will completely change the way people work ...
- Microformats and suchJune 28
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I hope you’ll forgive this brief diversion from my ongoing attempt to distinguish web developers from web designers, but it’s late, I’ve had a couple beers and I’ve been tinkering a bit with some code. Regularly-scheduled programming will return shortly.
So. The microformats people and the accessibility people are at war with each other, or so it seems (remember to read that article with tongue firmly in cheek). The cause of ...
- Designers and developers: FIGHT!June 26
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In a thorough and well-thought-out article published on Tuesday, Andy Rutledge listed what he considers to be the essential skills and knowledge for a web designer; this list is notable not only for what it includes — namely, a masterful distillation of just what it is that a web designer should be able to do — but also for what it explicitly excludes:
Note also that nowhere in this list do the words “Photoshop,” “Illustrator,” “Dreamweaver,” or ...