You may have noticed that I’ve been neglecting my blog over the last 9 months. This is due to Meegan falling pregnant with twins, and their subsequent arrival.
Isabella Ada Huegdon (5lb 10oz) and Amélie Isla Huegdon (5lb 5oz) arrived at 10:02am and 10:27am respectively on the 23rd of May, 2007. I haven’t had time to upload loads of pictures yet, but watch my Flickr stream; there are a few there already.
I’m very happy to be a Dad although it’s pretty hard going at the moment; in fact, I reckon one baby must be an absolute doddle. To be fair though, Meegan is doing the majority of the work at the moment since I leave for work at 6:30am and get home at 8pm.
Anyway, as far as the blog is concerned, normal service will resume shortly (I’m writing a couple of posts at the moment).
I’m featured in the “Expert Advice” section of .net magazine this month. I’ve written a short piece on understanding HTML’s element identifiers; IDs and classes.
.net magazine is a great resource for both experienced and newbie web developers. It contains invaluable tutorials, great articles, and a wealth of web development information. So if you haven’t already got it, you should definitely go out and buy it right now!
I’m on page 106. Please don’t be put off by my horribly deformed exterior – I’m beautiful on the inside.
You can find a photograph of the article on my Flickr account.
I’m currently working on improving nefariousdesigns.co.uk - both in design and in technology. I’ve continued to learn lots of great web development “stuff” over the past year, and it’s time I updated my personal site to reflect that burgeoning knowledge.
My first port of call is the underlying structure of my HTML - it’s ok, but it could definitely be improved.
I recently had a fantastic conversation with Mike Pearce - an old colleague (who’s now a good friend) - regarding document structure in HTML. Whilst peer-reviewing some of his code, I noticed some not-uncommon structural characteristics that, although not wrong, definitely didn’t convey the best semantics within the document. For this reason I thought I’d document some of the stuff I’ve learned about structured HTML and open it up for comment.
Continue reading “Semantics and Structure”…There’s no doubt about it; I have more than a passing fancy for JavaScript. We loves it, doesn’t we, precious? In fact, I’d go as far as to say that it’s my personal favourite programming language.
Sure, JavaScript has it’s flaws and shortcomings; but then, so does my wife and I still love her! (Although, obviously she’d disagreed. She’d probably have something to say about being compared to a programming language too - just as well she doesn’t read my blog then, eh?)
Anyhoo, recently I’ve had the pleasure of working rather extensively with my afore-mentioned language du jour. For this reason, I needed to dig out the reference material and, since I haven’t blogged anything remotely useful for a while, I thought I’d share my choice cuts with the blogosphere.
Continue reading “Learning JavaScript”…Last night I went to see Cirque du Soleil perform “Alegria”, their new show, at the Royal Albert Hall.
It was my mother-in-law’s birthday; but we hadn’t told her where we were going so, when her and Meeg turned up outside my office late yesterday afternoon, she was none-the-wiser. When I finally made it downstairs to the street, they were both clearly very excited (although I’m not sure whether that was due to what might be coming or the fact that they’d just spent 5 or 10 minutes staring into the window of Angels’ Fancy Dress shop).
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