Notes from #lwsw3trends
My notes from the two talks at London Web Standards November - Firefox OS in a nutshell, by Fernando Campo and Borja Salguero; What's new in Web Standards by Daniel Appelquist.
Notes from #12Devs October
My notes on the four talks from #12Devs October - Life behind the curve; Node.js - what is and why do?; The internet is real anyway; Digital feudalism and how to avoid it
Notes from #lwsprogid
My notes on the two talks - Modern Progressive Enhancement and Online Identity.
Do I need jQuery?
Converting from LESS to Sass
Initially I fell down on the LESS side of this divide, the main reason being the ease of it. All you have to do is include the javascript file and you're away. Syntactically it's a whole lot easier to use as well, there's almost no extra syntax to learn, and writing custom mixins takes no time at all.
Graduation and Employment
User agents - The good the bad and the ugly
In theory user agents are great, it's a way for devices to identify themselves to servers. Great for analytics, and in theory something that can be used, along with other methods, to optimise the content the server delivers.