BurningbirdI received a copy of The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web from the authors, Dave Shea and Molly Holzschlag, and have been getting an intimate peek into the world of web page design the last few weeks. This is a beautiful book, with an elegant and clever layout, and featuring many examples of the famous CSS Zen […]
No, not the virtual kind…at least, not this time. Our housing complex is a very quiet one, mainly families, older couples, and long time residents. We’ve always been lucky with the neighbors we’ve had, but our luck was bound to run out, and it did with the newest neighbor next door. I’ve had to go […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. This week I’ll be posting writings that violate the concept of ‘proper weblog entry’ all to heck–either by the use of fiction or the length of the writing, or both. As happens most times I do this, one or more people access the entry expecting to find a traditional weblog […]
I caught up with the reviews of the book at Amazon. Ouch. There was some blame attached to the tech editors on the book, and that’s not fair–they weren’t responsible. These are typographical errors, which are the responsibility of me and the final editing process; or errors in style of writing, and there’s really only […]
Last week I received two copies of the book, The Best of Verity Stob from Apress (ISBN number of 1-59059-442-8 for those Internet Explorer users that have AutoLink enabled). I was technical reviewer for the book, though in the end, I became more of language expert than a coding one, pointing out which of the British terms […]