The Entrepreneurial Life of Stephen Mitchell
Writing About My Life, Work, Creativity, and the Daily Effort to Learn, Grow, and Live Better.
Some things on the internet are extremely difficult to believe if they are real or not. OK, ok, 99% of the internet is unbelievable. Even the stuff that says "Yeah, this is real" invariably isn’t. This is yet another of those occasions - but I am prepared to eat humble pie if this proves to... Continue Reading →
Jonathan Snook has written a great post that I have commented as a "succint statement of validation" regarding the over/use of DIV’s in a web site. Like many coders who layout their plans on paper first, I carefully decide what the DIVs will be entitled for the remainder of their lifetime online. Some have standard... Continue Reading →
According to the new CSS-validator over at w3.org, my CSS on my site validate. Some might say "So what?" What they and you don’t realise: I do not use any special software to write my HTML (eg: Dreamweaver, Frontpage, etc) nor my CSS (eg: Topstyle, Stylemaster, MacRabbit, etc). I taught myself from reading and learning... Continue Reading →
Here is my latest web site design. [Update: Deleted in 20010] The client is the State Board of Apex SA/NT : I am the webmaster1. I was asked if I'd like to take on the challenge of bringing their website into the current century. I reckon it took about three minutes to decide how I... Continue Reading →
Three brilliant quotes from the mouth(/fingers?) of Christian Montoya: "I can put this technique to good use because I am a great CSS developer and I am creative. These are not popular skills but they are useful. If you put me on a team with a decent graphic designer we would do pretty well." and... Continue Reading →
Having a blog for yourself, your business, your product, or just for fun is vitally important in today’s world. In early 2004 Australians were fully flung into the deep end of blogging. A few computer magazines advertising blogger.com - and within months online-written-content exploded 25-fold across Australia. The WWW began hearing new voices from down... Continue Reading →
The mark-up validator has been updated. This is good news for all of us in the ongoing pursuit to ensure our code validates. The new Mark-Up validator allowed me to validate an URL or a file-upload, plus has a ‘direct-input’ field where text can be copied-and-pasted too. These are certainly going to beneficial. Yes, the... Continue Reading →
You think computing is an industry where a good education helps - right? Here are two examples that show how much education you need to become a billionaire: 1. Sergey Brin received his BS degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1993. Currently, he is a Ph.D.... Continue Reading →
I have been reading posts by Chris Pearson over at Pearsonified. Chris writes posts that are always informative and teach old-tricks in new ways and in a different light. This may sound like what every one is doing these days - but Chris puts a particularly good spin on everything that entices you to read... Continue Reading →
The Entrepreneurial Life of Stephen Mitchell 