Over the years, I’ve come across many web developers that have inconsistent interpretation of what best practices are. In most cases it’s a lack of knowledge at no fault on the individual.
I don’t want to risk sounding elitist, but I’m generally current on new methods, formats, tools, and “standards“. I’m one of those [...]

How do you know you have the ‘knack’? How can you measure it? How can you prove it?
While at Web Directions North I was fortunate enough to take in a presentation by Jared Spool from User Interface Engineering. When he said something to the effect:
successful experience design is invisible
Which coincided with:
successful experience [...]

Here’s my summary of day 1. In a nutshell, I’m impressed. Molly, Jeremy, Derek, Andy, Aaron and Joe did an amazing job. I wish I could have attended the other sessions as well.
Crimes against Web Standards
It started off with Crimes against Web Standards brought to us by Molly. Taking us [...]

Among many others, I too will be attending Web Directions North starting tomorrow.
It’s turned out to have quite the lineup; the organizers have put together what looks to be a great collection of talks. From Accessibility to Ajax, Design to Development, Microformats to Progressive Enhancement… it will be an interesting and educational experience I’m [...]