What is this? Me, doing a book review only half way into the month? Incredibly, I have managed to read 4 books already. I am reading 3 books simultaneously now, so we will see how many I can complete reading by the end of June. But till then, here goes my review of books:
Blogs
I recently started using SASS for my CSS development (thanks to Deepak). SASS is a meta-language that makes developing CSS really easy - provided you master the syntax. There is a very good textmate bundle which makes it really simple to use on a mac. I will write more about how it has proven useful, but this post is to resolve a problem of developing CSS with SASS.
I had tweeted about wanting to analyse my feed reading activity — mainly to track what different topics I followed over the years. Neither Google Reader trends nor NetNewsWire stats charted that kind of data. Luckily, the list of blogs I was subscribed to, in 2006 and in 2007, are still online (list for 2006, list for 2007 [.xml file]).
Here is what number crunching turns up:
This was a really bad month for reading books. I had barely half an hour everyday for reading books. Sigh.
I went to An Event Apart Seattle this week. It was a great event and I got to speak with all the gurus of web design. Seizing this opportunity, I even got them (well, some of them) to autograph my sketches. Here they are!
Can you guess who they are? (Answers in my flickr stream)
I can’t seem to read more than 4 books a month! Here are the books I read this month:
XHTML - A New Hope!
I started developing websites in 2003. At that time, XHTML was the flavour of the season (or rather the official W3C recommendation to move forward from HTML 4.x) and Deepak introduced me to the world of web design with XHTML and CSS. It was even written about favourably by the Godfather of Web Design. The reasons that were given to adopt XHTML were these:
Finally get to participate in CSS Naked Day!
As they say, it is time to show off the <body>
To know more about why styles are disabled on this website visit the
Annual CSS Naked Day website for more information.
UPDATE: The CSS Naked Day is now over!
This month was a slow one for books. I managed to read only 4 (and complete only 3) and most were digital versions read during lunch time. I managed to complete the Hitchhiker Series and had a ball of a time with them. In between, I gave a written driving test so now I have an Instruction Permit which lets me learn driving.
I knew I had to declare a Doctype but just didn’t know why. I recently had to work with html files without Doctype and didn’t even realise that the IE errors I was coming across was because of the triggering of quirks mode. Today I read in depth about Doctypes and I burn in shame to know how many bugs could simply be resolved by declaring a Doctype. So, here is what I found out about the Damned Doctypes.
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