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Latest Updates June 12 2022 It's been a while! This site has been rebuilt with NextJS. It went live back in January 2022 but there were quite a few things that needed fixing and I haven't had much time to work on this. This morning I added a fix for the syntax highlighting in the code blocks. It turns out that NextJS needs a little help for Prism to work correctly. September 09 2020 Replaced the NEWSApi feeds with RSS feeds. The first feed comes from CBC - World News . The NEWSApi was fun to work with but t
I am a Front End Web Developer in Toronto and I have been building websites for more than 10 years. My background is making websites with HTML, CSS and JavaScript from Photoshop mockups. I have worked with PHP, mySql, Wordpress, jQuery and many other technologies. When mobile devices arrived, I learned responsive web design with fluid grids as well as the importance of web standards, cross browser compatibility and accessibility.
With the arrival of task managers such as Gulp and Grunt, minifying CSS and Javascript as well as optimizing images was no longer a chore and the benefits of faster load times became obvious using these techniques. Flexbox and CSS Grid gave us the ability to design web pages in ways that we could never have imagined. At any rate, the industry has moved on and new technologies have appeared. React, Angular, Vue and Gatsby are just a few that are changing the way we now present content blazingly fast.