Responsibilities as Designers/Developers

This post was prompted by reading a feaure by Andy Rutledge in .net magazine. First let me start by saying - it was an excellent column. If you haven’t read it already I suggest picking up a copy of .net as it’s a particularly good issue this month.

I digress, the article discussed Back end Developers not keeping to standards or producing poor quality work. He suggested that developers that do not understand semantics and correct use of html and css should be fired! The entire article was very strong, but I think this was necessary to get the point across.

What I wanted to comment on was the admonition for front-end designers to report bad programmers to the boss if they are producing bad code or messing up your standards compliant code because they don’t understand correct mark-up. In fact Andy said we were obligated to do so.
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A Podcast Less Ordinary

This last week I’ve been re-discovering podcasting. In the past I’ve listened to gaming podcasts but until now hadn’t used the technology for anything but entertainment.

Now I’ve discovered a whole world of informative podcast featuring some of the greatest minds in web design/development.

I highly recommended checking out odeo.com - although not design specific it hosts many web dev podcasts including an excellent interview of Dave Shea (the creator of csszengarden) by Scott Fergette - check it out here.

The quality of the podcasts vary greatly from the surreal or outright nonsense to goldmines of tips and ideas.

I hope to start a podcast of my own once I get regular enough with my blogging. =watch this space=

Dave Long