Working on a required reading list for a new contractor starting soon here at work. Debating how much more context to give here. Let's just say it's really hard to find a front end developer who is technically qualified and available. In the end I chose the most articulate person that we interviewed, whom I see eye-to-eye with philosophically, but will require a little ramp up on the advanced JavaScript coding and CSS layout, which he was honest about, scoring big points for not just nodding his head and saying yes like a good little ______ (am i not a racist if i don't finish this statement, or is it the thought that counts against me?). In the end intelligence and willingness/ability to learn are the most important things to have in an employee, though damn do I miss having a mentor at work!
Required reading for Web Standards development:
- designing with web standards
- the first 3 chapters of Cascading Style Sheets 2.0 Programmer's Reference (with the rest as the best CSS reference out there)
- Separating behavior and structure
- Separating Behavior and Presentation
and getting more specific, at work we use these:
and then of course there are some important resources:
- Explorer Exposed!
- JavaScript Lint
- and last but not least, QuirksMode.
What did I miss? Should the Meyer "On CSS" books be on there?
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I was thinking, this might be a good excuse to pick up Dan Cederholm's book. I wasn't going to buy it because I've been following SimpleQuiz from the beginning, but if one wanted to catch someone up paper really is a much better medium for reading, and the discussions take forever to read, better probably to get the distilled answer.
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