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In my current day job I have to deploy a number of web apps every few weeks. The person I took over from did the whole thing in a manual and terribly cumbersome way: exporting the project locally, zipping it up, moving it to the server, unpacking and symlinking it, to finally run a small script that would set the correct production config, chmod log and cache folders etc. In the following article,

Having to spend more time at home means I can try out things. I know I'm late to the party, but I really wanted to have a go at using coffeescript. Sceptical at first, I really got to like it and quickly threw together a little static site generator: Genstatic.

My co-worker Paul showed how helpful it is to question the obvious: Can you apply a background image to an image? And, as he found out, the answer is: Yes! Switch the image to display: block, apply a padding, and there you go, you can set up backgrounds for images … See the little demo I’ve built to achieve a paralax like scrolling with just a div and an img. yes, I’ve made some things like this w

This is my find of the day: Hit Ctrl + Shift + F when using Chris Pederick’s developer toolbar, or “display element information” under Information. I’m sure I’m so late to this party, that the only ones left are some crying girl with an empty bottle of spirits and a sad sausage swimming in lukewarm water. Now more seriously: You’ll find a nice summary including attributes, ancestors and children a

Simon Willison recently posted to css-d asking for peoples' thoughts on writing maintanable CSS and that got me thinking... Over the years I've had the privilege of working on some very large web standards projects in small teams of other CSS/XHTML developers, but I've also spent a lot of time building little sites on my own for smaller clients. Maintenance on a small project involves being able t