Book Review: Steal Like An Artist
Posted Date: 4/7/2012 4:57:23 AM by Dan Martin
One of the best things about Twitter is seeing what stuff the people I follow recommend or promote. Given most of us are in the same industry, it only makes sense that I take a look and see if a particular book, blog post, or screencast can be useful to me. I’ve seen several people over the past couple of weeks tweeting/re-tweeting about this “Steal Like An Artist” book by Austin Kleon. I took a quick look at it on Amazon, but wasn't quite sure if it would be very beneficial to someone like me. However, the reviews were excellent and it was only 8 dollars (for either Kindle or Paperback edition), so I said what the hell and purchased it anyway.
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Book Review: HTML & CSS
Posted Date: 4/5/2012 6:35:55 AM by Dan Martin
It might sound surprising, but I never actually learned HTML. I remember purchasing a book on HTML back in high school, but I never did finish it. Over the years I picked up a bit of HTML or CSS here and there, but still never really knew it. I’ve found myself doing a lot more plain HTML & CSS recently, especially due to the powerful changes in HTML5, so I figured I should read up a bit. Several people recommended the HTML & CSS book by Jon Duckett on Twitter, so I decided to give it a shot.
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Just A Friendly Reminder
Posted Date: 4/2/2012 3:56:57 AM by Dan Martin
As software developers, we spend a lot of time talking about the best ways to clean up a codebase and keep it maintainable. We want it to be fast, efficient, and generally perform well. This is just a friendly reminder to remember to apply the same principles to your own body.
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Technical Difficulties
Posted Date: 3/24/2012 6:07:49 PM by Dan Martin
There have been some issues with the site the past week. I’ve been pushing out new posts but they were never displaying for some reason. That reason, was because of some poor programming on my part with the blog API. Dates were not getting set right and the content itself getting truncated (over-zealous formatting). I fixed up the issues and it should be good to go now. Unfortunately I have to clean up the posts and re-submit them, but that shouldn’t take too long. So expect a few posts over the weekend.
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CodeMash 2012 Rundown
Posted Date: 2/1/2012 4:53:56 AM by Dan Martin
CodeMash 2012 was not only my first time attending CodeMash, but also my first time attending a software development conference. I really wanted to go last year but did not order tickets quick enough. This year I made sure to not repeat the same mistake, and I still almost missed out on getting CodeMash tickets. I’ll summarize what stood out to me the most and my thoughts on the conference below, but if you want the TL;DR version, then this pic sums it up best.