In my various interviews over the past year, a common theme of mine has been the relationship between design and development on the web. I am curious to hear Garrett's thoughts on this as well. The interview As someone who dabbles in the creation of web sites as a hobby and follows the true professionals online, it appears that there are not a lot of people who are highly skilled on both sides of this fence. It seems like most folks tend to spend more time on one side over the other and their c…
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Sam Brown is a freelance Web Designer and Developer from Edinburgh, Scotland who specializes in usability and web standards, is a geek, and loves all things technology. Besides his own blog [http://sam.brown.tc/], Sam runs some very cool sites such as Posh CSS [http://poshcss.com/] and We Love TXP [http://welovetxp.com/]. I've been reading Sam's blog for a couple of years now and have come to appreciate his work during that time. After my discussion with another famous web developer early last…
I never intended for interviews to be a regular feature here. But after my discussion with Dan Benjamin [https://chrisbowler.com/journal/probing-the-hive-mind], I realized how informing it can be conducting an interview—and enjoyable. It seems the easiest way to really gain insight into a person and the subjects they specialize in. So here is the second ever interview in this space, and a third is in the works as we speak. There has been some discussion lately on the merits of interviews, and h…
A couple of months back, I was giving Dan Benjamin a hard time [http://twitter.com/chrisbowler/statuses/766202338] on Twitter, claiming that someone replaced his avatar with a caricature of Cabel Sasser [http://cabel.name/] (of Panic [http://www.panic.com/] fame). Dan replied, with a link [http://twitter.com/danbenjamin/statuses/766204067] to the source his avatar, which was supplied by the gang responsible for Happy Webbies [http://www.happywebbies.com/]. Although I was merely giving Dan a har…