Over the last year or so, I’ve been thinking more and more about how frontend web development processes should be structured in small and large teams. Web projects often have tight deadlines so it’s important to have a structured approach to writing reusable code and testing modular code snippets in an optimized build environment, before deploying code to a testing or staging server.
Time goes quickly — especially on the web — so I though it was time to realign and give this site a new, fresh look. While streamlining the site and reorganising some of the content, I changed to HTML5 DOCTYPE (using the new HTML5 structural elements, with the HTML5 IE enabling script), and applied some CSS3 enhancements for browsers that support them.
It’s already 2009 — time sure flies! I thought I’d pick out some personal highlights of the passed year, in no particular order.
My Windows XP machine crashed some days ago, which actually helped me to finally stop using Windows as my primary machine at home. Why bother when I have Linux and Max OSX too? (Luckily I had separate partitions on my Windows disk for the data, and also a backup of that data ;-) )
Could 2008 be the year of the Linux desktop? With the latest release of Ubuntu Linux (7.10), I believe for me it will be the year when I finally drop Windows and continue using only Mac OSX and Linux. At home, that is. At work, it might be a different story.