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.
Learned about a web design website today called A List Apart. It seems to have some interesting content centered on web design.
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.
Watched this talk today on Responsive Design by Shawn Wildermuth.
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.
An article on The 5 Hardest Parts of Programming which discusses optimisation, networking, security, reliability and scalability.
A talk Modern Memcached by Alan Kasindorf.
Saw this Portable Executable 101 – a windows executable walkthrough today. Pretty cool visualisation.
A talk on the future of authenticity:
BlackHat USA 2011: SSL And The Future Of Authenticity.