For the past two years, I’ve put ads on my site and just about every site I’ve built. Whether there was an adsense banner in the footer or a square at top of the sidebar, I never took any of it off. Until today. I have several reasons for that and most of them go […]
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Bootstrap 3.0 RC1 is finally here. So what’s changed? What’s better? The CSS framework has outdone itself in terms of syntax, usability, and design
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I read my friend’s blog post yesterday on paying for the products you use and I thought I’d write my own rebutal. I’m a web developer like he is and understand the idea of revenue models and I feel like the customers does not always have to directly pay for a product for the product to […]
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Twitter Bootstrap derivatives are coming out in masses. Check out which ones are worth following and perhaps integrating into your workflow
Read More4mIf you’ve been on this blog before, you’ll notice that it looks quite different today! That’s because last weekend I decided to take a new route with my site. It’s a major move not only in design but also in development.
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In the coming weeks, I’ll be working on a redesign and restructuring of my website as well as the launch of several sister sites.
Read More8mI think that there is one important media query that we have missed and that a lot of people just ignore. We go from large size monitors (1200+), to middle sized (1024) to tablets (734) and then mobile. Well we forgot a really important one! Ready?
Read More2mFirst of all, I can’t tell all of you how excited I am about the popularity my blog has gained. I went from seeing 5 people a day to seeing 25,000! 🙂 I owe it to each and every one of you. I’d love to recount my entire story about how amazed I am, about how I love that my articles are contributing! About my switch from online discussions to meaningful article writing. About my monetization journey and more.
Read More2mI was pondering on the impact of craigslist and realized how revolutionary that site is. It’s a million sites together and it’s nowhere near overwhelming with a sleek and intuitive simple interface and a wealth of products. Fifty different users can use it in their own manner and it works.
Read More4mCode organization is a huge thing, especially for developers (because they deal with code), and often times it’s a philosophical debate as to how code should be documented, if spaces should be used instead of tabs, what kind of documentation should be used and so on. Yet, what no one brings up is the dire issue of COMMENTING. We can all agree that comments are essential (and sometimes used to build half-ass documentation on big systems) but what no one really mentions is the fact that people are crappy commenters. From syntax use to descriptions. We just suck, really badly and that’s not the way a Zen Developer should be.
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