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HTML5 site of the month22
Jun

This month’s issue of .net magazine has awarded the recently reskinned Yell.com HTML5 site of the month!

HTML5 Site of the Month badge

As a front-end developer on the project I was quoted in the article as saying…

“The front-end dev team at Yell wanted to advance the coding standards, and moving to the HTML5 doctype was the first logical step. We made use of custom data attributes, placeholder attributes and local storage, all of which contributed to an improvement in the quality of our source code and the performance of our JavaScript. We also had the added benefit of being able to simplify our charset, style and script tags.” - Chris Bewick

This was an excellent project to work on and I am delighted with the reponse. Many thanks to @brucel for the great write-up and to @doodlemoonch for being, as always, a delight to work with.

This article can be found on page 57 of issue 204 of .net magazine.

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Pride of Reading nomination18
Aug

This week I was pleasantly surprised to discover that some of my colleagues and I had been nominated for a Pride of Reading award. The nomination was for a community project which I organised in the Summer of last year.

On the 15th of August 2008 myself and about twenty others from Yell spent a hard, but enjoyable day at the Albert Road Day Centre in Caversham. Whilst there we stormed our way through a seemingly endless list of jobs including; redecorating the reading room, painting the external pillars, pagodas and trellis, landscaping the car park, building a rockery, trimming the hedges, mowing the lawn and weeding the gardens.

My personal highlight of the day was the installation of a chicken coop kindly donated by Graham Barnard of Happy Hutch. Well… that and the BBQ lunch cooked by yours truly!

You can read more about the project and the nomination on the Get Reading website.

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