Mark Brown

Death

This is proving difficult to write as I have no clear thoughts on what I truly believe or think about death, it's all a bit hazy. Perhaps by the time I'm done writing this rambling piece I won't be pestered by it quite so often.

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Front end chops

The role of the front-end web developer has become more important, more complicated yet simpler in many ways.

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Back to work

I signed my life away to @inspire9 today, I'm very happy to be working in such an amazing community and look forward to my work there.

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Touch swipe events

I had to make an iOS like UI today and transition in different 'pages' by swiping. A few gotcha's and how-to's if you're building something similar.

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SVG Motion Paths

Building a simple HTML5 game this week I've learned heaps about motion graphics, Canvas and SVG. I've also learnt a few new tricks with Sass and CSS transitions for keeping my code clean.

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Node, a simple server

Firing up a simple web server is super handy, I've started using node so that I can fire up a server from any directory and view the pages from multiple devices and VM's.

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Vendor prefixes

There are two things that should happen.
Developers should stop coding vendor prefixes by hand & vendors shouldn't add any more prefixes into production releases.

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Compass is bad ass

will certainly be using Compass in the future for building sites, whether they are static or dynamic. Pre-compilers and static site generators are all the rage right now, Haml, Sass & CoffeeScript have changed things for the better, there’s no reason to be scared of them.

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First week

My first week on the outside was thoroughly enjoyable and satisfying. Working for yourself somehow seems more honest, you know precisely what you have done and accomplished and are completely accountable for what you produce.

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