“Yes, you did a ton of things wrong on this project. But you also did a ton of things wrong that you don’t know about yet. And there’s no other way to find out what those things are until you ship this version and get it in front of users and customers.”
For those who don’t follow me on Twitter, I’ve spent a few hours today getting “share” buttons on my site. I ran into a few hiccups along the way, so I’m posting a brief recap, in case it helps anyone else.
“There’s a world outside the crazy “best practices” created to overcome horrific shortcomings of CSS. We are not confined to the way things are.”
“That’s the true value of estimates. That it sets up conversational constraints that can be used as boundaries for trading concessions. Not that they’re nails for your own self-erected cross.”
A lot of my friends, colleagues, and flat-out heros have released some excellent books recently. I’ve mentioned a few of them, but I think it would be fun to run a giveaway and help spread some of this fine knowledge around the community. Here are the books I am giving away:
To participate, just leave a reply below with the number corresponding to the book you want most, a quick note about what type of content you’d like to see more of on this blog, and your Twitter username. I’ll select winners randomly at the end of the week. Also, make sure you’re following me on Twitter so I can DM the details to the winners.
So, which book would you like?
“Usability evaluations are good for a lot of things, but determining what a team’s priorities should be is not one of them.”
This article on Carsonified explains why GIT is fundamentally better then SVN and why it’s worth the switch.
This is definitely something I’d like to start looking into, especially now that jQuery is making the switch as well. If only there was a pretty GUI that handled it.
A new site from Imulus which gets a user’s browsing configuration and allows them to easily share it. It’s a simple concept — executed well — and looks very useful for web developers and designers.
Designing With Web Standards, by Jeffrey Zeldman, is one of those books that every web designer worth their salt has in their library. The third edition, which is almost complete, looks like a great improvement over the first two classics. Co-authored by Ethan Marcotte, the third edition will cover a bevy of new topics like HTML5, web fonts, and CSS3 — all with an added emphasis on “how” in addition to “why”.
Save 37% by pre-ordering the book on Amazon, or learn more about it through the mini-site or this blog post.
