Brad Dunbar

Html❰❱

Html is the beautiful substrate of the web. Finding more semantically correct ways to express content is a constantly evolving task. I'm definitely on board with the changes brought about by html5 and I think they will make the web a better place. Html audio is great and of course I have a strong opinion about html video codecs!

On the other hand, a nice big helping of pragmatism can go a very long way. Sometimes things should just be as simple as they possibly can and that means regular old technologies and techniques. I'm ok with that and I actually think its pretty great sometimes.

Css✻

Other than javascript, Writing cross browser style sheets is probably where I have the most experience. I've dealt with peekaboo bugs, IE hacks, floats, and redesigned *ahem* table layouts as semantic documents.

I'm of the opinion that anything worth doing is worth doing using progressive enhancement and graceful degradation. You shouldn't leave legacy users in the cold (however much you want to) and more able clients should be given the most advanced experience possible.

Javascript❴❵

I <3 javascript. (function(){})() is a lexical scoping hug, and {} is an object literal kiss.

I know all the ins and outs of variable hoisting and the implications of having function scope as opposed to block scope. Using call and apply comes naturally and prototypal inheritence is way cooler than the classical style.

I'm hopelessly obsessed with node.js and javascript has become my everyday scripting language of choice.

Environment _

I'm all about the command line. I don't like to take my hands off the keyboard if I don't have to and for my money linux has the best tools for such an environment. I've used a number of different distros, but I don't have a hard preference as long as my favorite unix tools are handy (grep, sed, awk, etc).

As stated above, I have become infatuated with node.js. If you have a project that needs to be written with node, please let me know as soon as possible. Seriously, I might do it for free. Ok, ok, I don't work for free. (But really, I might pay you to work on it.)

Source Control ±±±

Source control is absolutely fundamental to any software project and using it correctly makes things go much more smoothly. Git is definitely what I'm most comfortable with. It's fast, simple and rock-solid. stash, rebase, and log save me huge amounts of time.

I also have fairly extensive experience with subversion. DVCS is the future of source control but in the meantime svn is still the industry standard so I can merge tree conflicts without breaking a sweat.

Besides git and subversion, I have a working knowledge of mercurial and bazaar. Nothing fancy mind you, but given the need I could find my way around.