Blogging and all that Malarkey

I didn’t know about this FRont End Developers’ meet-up in Manchester until I heard on Twitter someone there was discussing the pros and cons of my new beard. Beard talk aside, I’m planning on attending the next McrFRED, whenever it’s happening. (Maybe my beard will go with me.) In the meantime, organiser Simon Owen’s videos from the first event are online now.

Fighting gifs: 125 fighting game backgrounds.

In this week’s sillier than normal episode of Unfinished Business Anna and I exchange notes on our workplaces and the tools we use, from hardware to software. I get distracted by Mutton Bustin’ (but honestly, who wouldn’t?)

This week on Unfinished Business, Anna and I talk about my trip Tokyo and Hiroshima. I explain why I think everyone should visit Hiroshima at least once and Anna opens her presents with loud rustling. We answer listener questions about weekly working, pricing and invoicing and then discuss whether it&8217;s a good idea to work while on holiday.

While I was in Japan, Anna chatted with her “big brother,” Ryan Taylor. They discussed working from home, apprenticeships, front-end portfolios, and working with a hybrid designer/developer.

My Responsive Web Design workshop at Smashing Magazine is getting closer and some tickets are still available. In the meantime, here are three useful new resources for responsive layout using CSS3:

A year ago I travelled to Oslo in Norway to teach a two day responsive design workshop at FINN. The team there have (obviously) been working hard and yesterday they let me know they’d a new responsive design. It looks great

A really fun site by David Paliwoda and Jesse Williams.

The Stuff and Nonsense nutty boys header is pretty tall and I decided I wanted to reduce its height for small screens, such as phones, in landscape orientation. When I wrote the CSS to make this happen I made some nutty assumptions. In the spirit of sharing our mistakes:

Two shows in one week. Aren’t you the lucky one? While I’m in Japan for two weeks, Anna’s joined by Ashley Baxter, who took over her father’s insurance business at eighteen. They talk about starting young, learning new skills, determination, vision and overcoming fear.