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SharePoint 2010 and XHTML Validation
SharePoint 2010 declares a strict DOCTYPE and IE 8 standards mode, then fails validation with deprecated attributes and inline everything.
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The Most Trivial Aspect of Designing Interfaces
After a decade of UI work, the biggest lesson: how an interface looks is trivial compared to understanding how your users actually need to use it.
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HTML 5 vs. XHTML 2: The Future of Web Standards
Slides from a talk I gave at the Dayton Web Standards Group comparing the two competing futures for markup, with the specifications and further reading I drew on.
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The Value-Up Paradigm
Two ways of viewing the whole development process: the familiar work-down approach of ticking off requirements, and the value-up alternative. What each does to a project, whatever your methodology.
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An Introduction to CSS
An introduction to CSS that I presented at my day job, posted here as a SlideShare embed in case others find it useful.
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Engaging the Entire Development Team
Leaving college meant learning that large software is not built alone. On why specialists still need a general knowledge of what everyone else does, and what poor communication costs a team.
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Tools For Web Designers
The resources that have helped me most in my career, all of them free, open source, or offering a free version: Firefox extensions, web applications, and the print books worth buying.