Monthly Archives: August 2007

Wrapping Paper

August 27, 2007 – 8:41 am

I love really intricate graphical treatments around page elements, I also really hate putting extra code fluff into pages. The way I see it, if a chunk of markup is only there strictly for aesthetic purposes, it’s on the chopping block. The more garbage code you have in your document, the tougher it is for […]

By jamesv | Posted in dom scripting, css, javascript, doing less, code | Comments (0)

Be proud of your patches

August 25, 2007 – 9:09 pm

For the first couple years I was doing development work, whenever I found a problem with my code that noone else had caught, I always tried to sneak out a fix under the radar. I now say with much more experience and 20/20 hindsight, I was a friggin’ idiot.

I wasn’t fooling anybody, all systems designed […]

By jamesv | Posted in pants, methods, shortcomings, code | Comments (0)