True inspiration can be measured by its longevity. It's been a week since Banks and Andrea and I visited Atlanta for An Event Apart (@aneventapart), but I'm still giddy about being a web developer. And this is a breakthrough, because there's been a problem...
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To be honest, I originally wanted to title this post “Top 5 Coding Annoyances.” But that's pretty negative, huh? So I decided that it would be perfectly reasonable to turn things around and focus on the positive. The inside joke is that the items on the list haven’t changed at all. In the end, they’re all about consistency, organization, and taking pride in what you produce. As WordPress likes to remind us, “Code is Poetry.”
Hello, world – this is my first post! I’ve learned a bunch since joining the Studiobanks team three months ago. Lots of that learning has been dedicated to becoming accustomed to a new workplace (workflows, project history etc), but at least one universal pearl of wisdom comes to mind that I think would be helpful to lots of folks – testing Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8, and 9!
Since we’re all Mac here at the office, I’ve become reasonably familiar with the process of setting up multiple virtual machines to provide a rock-solid (and free) testing environment on my local computer. I’ve employed other techniques over the years (IETester, online screenshot services), but nothing comes close to having the actual browsers loaded in their own sandboxed environment. We’ll achieve this by creating four separate virtual machines in VirtualBox.