Exploring YUI! (2008)
I’ve been playing with the Yahoo User Interface Library (YUI) for the last few days. So far, I’ve only really looked at the CSS stuff, which is my main area of interest. In essence, YUI is a bunch of CSS (and JavaScript for those that want it) that aims to do all the boring, base level stuff for your website for you, so you can focus on doing your real work. The CSS part, comprises of three files – Reset, Fonts and Grids. There’s also Base, which is the opposite of Reset. The purpose of Reset is
Playing with old free software (2008)
I have to admit, I used to really struggle to install GNU/Linux…Many years ago, before I had any experience of my own Unix-like machine, I had played a little with NeXTSTEP, and was hoping that one day I would buy my own computer. For some reason, I was always quietly confident that it would run some form of Unix. At that point, I was facing a potential career as a Windows developer, as it was what I knew. The idea of having a machine running something different always appealed to me, even to