Earlier this week, a passing mention of LeVar Burton speaking at a Twitter conference in LA launched me into hours of anguish, as I compulsively sang the theme song to the PBS classic, “Reading Rainbow.” You know the song, right? “Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high. Take a look, it’s in [...]

I often get asked what books I recommend for learning or mastering (X)HTML, CSS, PHP, AJAX, etc, and I’m always at a loss of what to tell people.  See, I’ve never specifically went out and bought a book for any of that.  Everything I’ve learned over the years has been through experimentation, viewing examples, tearing [...]

Here is a web development timeline starting from 1990 through 2009 and how all the client and server side versions have evolved.
URL: http://tinyurl.com/cetjjp
Source: Wikimedia.org

If you’ve ever made a pie crust from scratch, you’ll know that there is fair amount of crust dough that gets cut off and made into oddly-shaped bits of non-pie dessert.. To me these are the best bits and the ones I can devour quickly without destroying the whole pie before the [...]

First posts are terrible, if you’ve never written one, I suggest you try.  The problem with first blog posts, is that they are never actually about what your blog is about.  This blog for instance, it’s about what I’m doing with the Pierce College website, advancements in web technologies, things I find interesting, etc. But [...]