Found a free ebook Beginning Perl the other day and started working my way though it. After a few chapters I realised I didn’t really want to learn Perl. I think I’m going to focus on PHP. I can get shit done in PHP just as easily as I could in Perl.
Author Archives: Jay Jay
A List Apart
Learned about a web design website today called A List Apart. It seems to have some interesting content centered on web design.
Kick-starting a responsive design from a template
I got a referral from Stuart Laughlin to initializr which is a handy HTML/CSS/JavaScript template generator. Stuart’s recommendation was to use the Twitter Bootstrap template.
Shawn Wildermuth on Responsive Design
Watched this talk today on Responsive Design by Shawn Wildermuth.
CSS Media queries
Heard about CSS Media queries today. It’s a table of CSS media queries that can help you figure out what sort of a device you are on.
How to hack the beliefs that are holding you back
Read an article today, How to hack the beliefs that are holding you back. Not sure that I will actually be applying any of those techniques but I do feel as though I’m holding on to some beliefs which are holding me back and I would like to abandon them. I think I’m afraid of being successful, even though that seems silly. I just worry that I’m not qualified enough to be making decisions which will affect people’s lives and I worry about the time in my life being soaked up so much that I don’t have the time to give other people. At the moment if people, anyone, needs me, then I’m available, regardless of how important they are. I worry that if I were successful I’d be in so much demand that I’d have to start picking and choosing who I gave my time to and I’m loathe to do that. I dunno. I’m pretty sure I want to be successful. I’m not sure what’s holding me back. But I haven’t been getting on with things in the way that I feel I should be if I want to be successful.
FaceBoom Us
I created a site FaceBoom Us. I wonder who will figure out how subversive this is of me? >:)
The 5 Hardest Parts of Programming
An article on The 5 Hardest Parts of Programming which discusses optimisation, networking, security, reliability and scalability.
Alan Kasindorf on Modern Memcached
A talk Modern Memcached by Alan Kasindorf.
Portable Executable 101 – a windows executable walkthrough
Saw this Portable Executable 101 – a windows executable walkthrough today. Pretty cool visualisation.