Reading Time: 4 minutesIn July of 2019, I was given the opportunity to speak at SDL Connect, which would be taking place in October. We debated a bit at EXLRT on what the topic should be, but we finally settled on, “The Seven Deadly Sins of Enterprise Software” Settling on the topic was easy enough, but then we

Reading Time: 6 minutesFor the past few years I’ve been writing these, “year in review” things to summarize my full year. This time around, I’m going to review an entire friggin’ decade. Why? Because a lot has happened in a near decade. 2010 In July of 2010 I left a company called Mannatech after working there for five

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis has been the craziest year since I’ve begun blogging. Which is why I hardly blogged. Let’s start at the beginning: January For the sixth year in a row, I was awarded SDL MVP. I was surprised. It’s wild to think that I’ve won that award six times on just the merits of running my

Reading Time: 4 minutesEver been the new person on an old project where you were trying to not make things substantially worse? Maybe you need to position an element, but you don’t know what z-index value is safe to use. You don’t want to layer something to z-index: 9999 if z-index: 10 will suffice… but how do you

Reading Time: 5 minutesWe often spend forever learning the parts of a language, and the application, but we never read enough about how to solve problems when things go wrong. I’d like to spend some time avoiding cool new tricks and fancy features, and instead present a basic process anyone at almost any skill level could follow for

Reading Time: 2 minutesA good long time ago I was on a project where things had gotten off to a rocky start. We’d ended up with a fairly massive stylesheet that, amongst other problems, never set base styles on the “typographical” elements like <h1> or <blockquote>. So my task was to add baseline typographical styles. A subtask of