Separating content from presentation – social media style

November 25, 2008

As a recovering web developer, I am very acutely aware of the best practices of separating content from presentation. The other night at the social part of the Mile High Social Media Club, I was talking with some folks about semantics and web standards, and it occurred to me that this same nuance extends to [...]

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How do you segment your online behaviour?

July 5, 2008

I was just playing around with wordle and decided to see how I used my blog, tumblog and del.icio.us accounts. Wordle uses an RSS feed to make something that looks suspiciously like a tag cloud, but is not. I was actually a little surprised how they turned out:

I had no idea I wrote [...]

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what’s the deal with… findability, searchability, indexability and accessibility?

July 1, 2008

As a front-end web developer, I often hear the terms “findable”, “searchable”, “indexable” and “accessible” thrown around interchangeably. For many, they mean that the content can be accessed by a non-human, be it a screen reader or a search engine spider. On some level this is true, but there are several significant differences that are [...]

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Grad School Retrospective (2)

April 17, 2008

As I mentioned in my last post, I am taking some time to look back on my time in grad school. A list of course titles and descriptions doesn’t really speak to what I got out of the course, or what I put into it.
4. Application of Artificial Intelligence – This was the [...]

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lifestream management

April 8, 2008

iKeif is my pod-neighbour at Resource. We both started at Resource this year as Sr (Front-end) Developers, coming over from large corporations. We share many of the same interests and opinions on the UX/Web field (at least, he doesn’t disagree with me..!). If I hear of a new service, he’s probably already investigated it. Lately [...]

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Templates

March 24, 2008

Today I was back in ATG developer training – in their Commerce course. Some of our time was spent looking at templates for category and product pages. This was something I’d been thinking of on my own, and it was good to see that my ideas were right on track.
Basically I had been thinking about [...]

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how you know you love your job: you’re blogging about it on a friday night..

March 14, 2008

Today was our day off after 9 days of ATG training. Yesterday afternoon, we were all mentally “full” of all we’d been learning. I wasn’t sure how productive I’d be at work today.. and as it turned out, it was one of those great days where you just can’t get enough done!
The morning started somewhat [...]

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Flagship sites – identifying areas of consistency and possible variation

February 20, 2008

Lately at work I’ve been helping out with some light Scotts work. The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company is a huge client, with several different microsites and campaigns. The recent redesign of scotts.com (disclaimer: I only performed perfunctory copy changes for the redesign) reminded me of much of the work I did at LexisNexis: scotts.com was the [...]

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A mid-career crisis?

February 3, 2008

After 8 years of various “web-” jobs (from Web Director (Jagged) to Web Designer (Maxim) to Web Master (Youthone) back to Web Designer (Common Sense Solutions) to Web Technician (Franklin University) to Web Developer (LexisNexis) to Senior Web Developer (LexisNexis) and now Senior Developer (Resource Interactive), I’m starting to think about a shift in my [...]

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in all my spare time…

January 17, 2008

With only a few months remaining in my college career (this time), I realized I had better take advantage of student discounts. My bookshelf will soon include the following:

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