Raspberry Pi: too much interface!
I have enjoyed a veritable deluge of technology over the past week. My laptop died, to be replaced with a shiny triple-boot MacBook.
Web design & Free Software
Free Software tools & technologies for web design & front-end development.
Jake Rayson
A web designer since the 20th century, I am a pragmatic advocate of Free Software and I use proprietary software when appropriate. I made the full-time switch to Linux back in 2007, and my desktop tools of choice are Linux Mint, Inkscape, GIMP and Sublime Text. As a Front End Developer, my core skills are HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery, and my working life reflects my commitment to open standards and accessible websites (ie accessible by everyone, regardless of browser, platform, ability or technology). For web publishing platforms, I use WordPress for ease of use and Drupal for more complex solutions. I am also learning about Ruby, Rails, Sinatra and CoffeeScript. I like the minimalist Ruby Way. To this end, my personal portfolio website is built with NestaCMS.
Latest Posts
xTreme Triple Booting: Linux, Mac & Windows
In my quest for Ultimate Freelancer Flexibility, I have purchased a MacBook, so that I can run Linux, Windows and Mac and be able to walk in to any development environment and start work instantly. No more installing software or waiting for passwords!
3 reasons why Mac is best
You thought you’d seen the end of the Flame Wars) between Mac and PC, redolent of the late ’90s, lumber-jack-shirted hipster vs. besuited-beige-square dullard.
The Idle Self-employed
What this country needs is a new scapegoat for ordinary, hard-working, honest families to blame for our economic woes.Bankers no longer cut it, they’re yesterday’s news.
My next project will be in HTML
Nathan Ford, Welsh-living and “Texas-born designer/developer/capitalist”, writes wise words about typography, and has created a couple of dev tools to strip out decoration from a site and tell you which web fonts you are actually seeing.He tweets well too, useful stuff, not gibberish:“With internal projects, including @gridsetapp, I’ve built the thing first, then styled.
If only Windows were like Cary Grant
Cary Grant once said “It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.”.
Another day, another...
The Amazing Marvin Suggs And His Muppaphone coined the phrase “Another day, another headache”.For me, it’s “Another Day, Another Front End Dev Contract, Another Set of Cool Tools”.
CAPTCHA? Gotcha!
CAPTCHAs are designed to stop spam. This is good.I am finding it increasingly difficult to ‘solve’ CAPTCHAs.
Can you be agile with a waterfall client?
An exasperated front end developer was telling me his project woes the other day. The project had started out using the Agile development methodology, using an iterative and evolutionary approach based on close collaboration.