Content creation and moving in a contantly changing environment

This is post is entirely because I found some excellent text, directly from the W3, that sums up the issues I had with staying afloat in a competitive market (selling “skillz”) with a codebase that not so much changed as rotated every few months. I sympathise with anyone mad enough to create a Facebook app’…

From https://www.w3.org/wiki/Graceful_degradation_versus_progressive_enhancement:

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BlackBerry Androids?!

It turns out, while releasing BBM to other platforms, BlackBerry are expanding the scope of required skills for software-development on their flagship range: http://developer.blackberry.com/android.

As long as your code is written for the Android SDK v2.3.3, and you use BB’s own encapsulation tool, your code should run directly on BB OS10!

 

How to mark up subheadings, subtitles, alternative titles and taglines with HTML5

Steve Faulkner has written great things regarding textual-fiddling that fellow Markup Geeks will note for its rigor and completeness:

If you don’t already know, the hgroup element is obsolete in HTML5. Advice is now provided in the HTML spec on how to mark up subheadings, subtitles, alternative titles and taglines using existing and implemented HTML features.

Related articles

• How to mark up subheadings, subtitles, alternative titles and taglines (html5doctor.com)
• Farewell, hgroup (brucelawson.co.uk)
• Pet Peeve – Website Taglines That Don’t Mean Anything (keepmarketingfun.com)

256 Shades of Grey

Intriguing:

RT @TechCrunch 256 Shades Of Grey http://t.co/jGG5MKdlBQ

Why Markup and Markdown matter

RT @beep New on the @GetEditorially blog, a little ditty about why markup (and Markdown) matter for writing: http://t.co/lV1XBh1XSz