An Event Apart Boston Day 2 - it was rough getting out of bed that early again, but thinking about the lineup of excellent speakers got me motivated to get on the road and down to Boston.

continue reading: An Event Apart Boston 2008 Day 2 + reflections

after taking the day following to recover, today i’ll take a bit of time to recount my experiences at An Event Apart Boston 2008. you can find other notes and views rounded-up by Jeffrey Zeldman if you’d like to get even more information.

this conference series could be summed up for those lacking any patience as simply: do the right thing, here’s why, and this is how. the organizers, Jeffrey Zeldman and Eric Meyer, are known in the website profession as stalwarts for holding ourselves up to the very best practices.

the lineup of speakers each brought a different perspective, backed by a wealth of industry experience and successes at major companies and projects.

continue reading: An Event Apart Boston 2008 Day 1

as contradictory as it sounds, with almost all my projects in the past, they’ve either been too complex, or not complex enough, to take advantage of an open CSS framework.

recently i’ve started a site that has a definite magazine-style feel to it, and my first instinct was that a grid-based CSS framework might save me a lot of time to build it. i chose the Blueprint CSS framework as the basis of my development, and after a fairly friendly learning curve, it’s greatly sped up my process.
continue reading: Blueprint CSS framework

as an exercise in attempting to eloquently explain my busy mind, a while ago decided to make a list of the various roles i was expected to fill on a daily basis. between work, school, home, and socialization, i found out i have quite an extensive selection of hats to wear.

continue reading: what’s on your hat rack?