Archive for category Web development

Will iPhone Apps replace the desktop… and the web?

I’m sure I’m late to this whole thing (I blog once a week – in my underpants – and I really don’t know shit about technology) but having just had Windows 7 installed, I’ve just noticed that the “desktop” metaphor suddenly feels incredibly dated and stale. >> continued | 4 Comments

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When is a standard not a standard? When it’s XHTML.

You’ll hear a lot of chest-beating from some quarters about how they develop ’standards-compliant’ HTML or CSS code. The really clever ones up the ante by saying that what they produce is XHTML, on the basis that HTML is a subset of XML and the HTML is structured that it will allow an XML parser to read it without error and that means you can stick an X in front >> continued | 4 Comments

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Note to managers: web developers are lying to you

Years ago, for reasons that now seem obscure and foreign, I was a school caretaker. When not spending idle hours chatting up the more amenable sixth form girls taking GCSE social studies (where are they now??)  we were basically lying about what we were doing. >> continued | 4 Comments

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