Archive for the “Books” category

CSS Refresh

by kartooner on March 8, 2005

Two years ago, after read­ing Design­ing with Web Stan­dards by Jef­frey Zeld­man, I made an oath to myself that I would kick my old web devel­op­ment habits and take my Jedi train­ing in CSS-based design. I can remem­ber the exact moment when (…)

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Holidaze

by kartooner on November 29, 2004

Now that the long awaited 4-day week­end has come and gone, at the blink of an eye I might add, it’s time to patiently await the arrival of Christ­mas and more impor­tantly pre­pare for the onslaught of hol­i­day shop­pers, cranky drivers (…)

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The Joy of Reading

by kartooner on August 14, 2004

If I’m not cod­ing a web site, I’m read­ing a book. Read­ing puts me in a tran­quil state of mind and for those few moments my imag­i­na­tion takes over, tak­ing me some­where I’ve never been and putting me in the shoes of a complete (…)

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Melonhead

by kartooner on August 12, 2004

I’ve been an avid reader of the online comic, Mel­on­pool. The comic fol­lows the adven­tures of “two aliens, a tele­pathic dog and a 220-lb. ham­ster” and the inter­ac­tions of the char­ac­ters are as hilar­i­ous as they are intrigu­ing. When I stum­bled upon Melonpool (…)

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