As a supporter of microformats, I want to provide you some amazingly easy ways to add them to your blog. To kick this off, I’m going to tell you how you can turn your WordPress or Blogger blogroll into a list of hCards in less than 2 minutes!
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You have probably seen a lot of buzz surrounding software engineering jobs that offer amazing benefits just to attract and keep "rock star" talent. The first ones that come to mind for me are from Hedgehog Labs and perhaps What else do companies have to do to keep Software Engineers?. You probably know (dream?) about Google 20% time. I was just talking with a friend about how great his benefits were over mine yadda yadda yadda… It has become a big bragging point in our industry.
The thing I’m wondering here is: How far does it go? I am trying to consider in what other jobs benefits like work-from-home programs, free conferences, multiple monitors, and flex time are almost standard. I know that we don’t all have these nice things but doesn’t it seem like this profession goes further than most? I know that I’m already at the point where I would have a really hard time adjusting to a job without these benefits. Are you?
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Reviewing my bookmarks this month, I found some really great resources that I had to write about. In case you missed them, here are the best which (for the most part) went under-noticed. Enjoy!
You think you know HTML, don’t you? | kay lives here – An insightful opinion piece about front-end coding in general. Some good discussion is a bonus.
HTML Reference (beta) – SitePoint’s new HTML reference covering concepts, elements, attributes, compatibility and even microformats! You will want to bookmark this for future reference. A perfect complement for their CSS reference.
CSS Compatibility and Internet Explorer – It is made even more useful because you can see the selectors etc. that IE8 plans to support. Slightly exciting but also a bit disappointing. Good to know though :) Continue reading