From the journal
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The difference between a web designer and a front-end developer
In this industry you hear a lot of job titles banded about. So many that it’s all too easy to become oblivious to what they actually mean.
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North London meet-up for web folk
Towards the end of last month I attended Croydon Creatives. I had a great time and it was fun to meet some like-minded people for a change, and I will definitely be making the effort to attend regularly in the future. The thing is, I know that there must be plenty of web folk in North London, where I’m based, too.
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The Manual: A review
Unless you’ve been living under a rock you’ no doubt heard of The Manual—a considered, well-designed and quite frankly, inspiring periodical on the topic of designing for the web. Just this evening I came to the end of issue one and thought I’d share my thoughts on it.
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Street tribute to Steve Jobs
This morning my wife and I took a stroll down Regents Street, London—home to the UK flagship Apple Store. Whilst passing we couldn’t help but notice the tributes people had been leaving outside the store itself.
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Version control for dummies (like me)
For a long time I have been interested in learning how version control (specifically SVN) works however being a freelancer I didn’t really see the need to complicate my work flow. That was until a month ago when I started full-time employment as a font-end developer and I had to use version control.