Get your microformats fix. BlogHelper has a roundup of all the different ways to use microformats in WordPress. Thanks Andrew for the link.
Wrapping pre tags. This one has been plaguing me for a while. Some of my posts include code samples, and without text wrapping, long lines get truncated to fit the narrow blog, so you only see some of the code. The simple solution: write it as normal text but change the font. I’m too much of a standardista to do that. Another solution: change the overflow attribute, but it adds a scrollbar and I hate reading text that has scrollbars in the middle. So instead I decided to do word-wrap, which as we all know, requires five(!) lines of CSS to get right. Thanks to T. Longren for showing me how.
It’s the people stupid. Lidor Wyssocky: “And thus, after years of Agilism – the people-oriented hi-tech-religion – our industry managed to take the next step and mark its own people as the source of all the world’s problems.†I have to agree, hiring is not the only way to make a better development team. A company can do a lot to help its people grow better, give people the tools to shine. Hint: it’s not the methodology or the IDE. For the reverse corollary, read Raganwald: “In plain English, they don’t just force their “A” programmers to use a “C” programming language, but they tell them to write software that they think a “C” would be comfortable maintaining.â€
… the lazy ones. Another must read from Lifehack.org: “You do not need ethical insight or human understanding to operate a machine, and machines are how many of today’s leaders see their organization: machines for making quick profits, not civilized communities of people working together to a common end. We can only hope some organizations at least see the error of their ways before the hardworking idiot becomes the commonest creature in the hierarchy.â€
But … but … Mike Arace: “The worse word you can hear form a client is “Butâ€â€.