Archive for May, 2008

Opinion

Developers: heed your web designers

If you are a developer working primarily with server-side languages (Java, PHP, .NET, pick your poison) and have the good fortune to work with a web designer who takes care of your front-end, please listen when they ask for specific markup. Buy your designer a beer and ask them about semantic markup, unobtrusive javascript, and [...]

Opinion

Lost in translation

At the company where i work, we want to use an old piece of software in a new way. Strict development policies and lots of administrative overhead make cracking open the code for this application very expensive while getting creative with our front-end is cheap. “We can hack it,” i said, meaning that we could [...]