Published in General on Monday, February 16th, 2004
Well. Here it is, the first post. I had intended to get something up here a lot sooner, but alas work has me in shakles. No permalinks yet, no archives, no comments. I intend to write my own code...
This blog is intended mostly for professional use; that is, discussion on most things in the sphere of the web including building and marketing websites on the internet.
This week no less.
First up will be a neat little trick that I cooked up this weekend to help those of us who fear 'too-large css files' (myself included). I'd really love to get comments going first though, so that people can help me test it!
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I started freelancing by diving in head first and getting on with it. Many years and a lot of experience later I was still able to take away some gems from this book, and there are plenty I wish I had thought of beforehand. If you are new to freelancing and have a lot of questions (or maybe don't know what questions to ask!) do yourself a favor and at least check out the sample chapters.
The author line-up for this book says it all. 7 excellent developers show you how to get your JavaScript coding up to speed with 7 chapters of great theory, code and examples. Metaprogramming with JavaScript (chapter 5 from Dan Webb) really helped me iron out some things I was missing about JavaScript. That said each chapter really helped me to develop my JavaScript skills beyond simple Ajax calls and html insertion with libs like JQuery.
Like the other books listed here, this provides a great reference for the PHP developer looking to have the right answers from the right people at their fingertips. I tend to pull this off the shelf when I need to delve into new territory and usually find a workable solution to keep development moving. This only needs to happen once and you recoup the price of the book in time saved from having to develop the solution or find the right pattern for getting the job done..
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