015: with Jenn Lukas and Allison Wagner

April 23rd, 2012     01:00:08

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This week we were joined by Jenn Lukas and Allison Wagner who are front end web developers at Happy Cog (Philadelphia).

Links’n'Drama

• Tim Kadlec’s research on resource downloading
• JS2Coffee.org
• Drinking at Conferences (Ryan Funduck’s blog post)

Q & A

• Single line vs. Multi line CSS (findability, information density, CSS3 issues, comments, etc)
• Level of JavaScript knowledge
• What to learn next / Is higher education necessary for a career in web development?
• Dirty code / Clean code awareness
• Meeting other front end devs (Montreal and elsewhere)
• Do we use reference charts for HTML and CSS while coding, or is it all memorized? (We ended up talking about some generator tools like these two gradient generators)

Sponsors

• Harvest – Time/Expense tracking and invoicing app. Use coupon SHOPTALK for 50% off the first month.
• LessMoney – A small intimate conference about making more money in Tampa, FL.

More about Jenn and Allison

• @jennlukas – jennlukas.com – Happy Cog – .net Magazine monthly columnist
• @alliwagner – Happy Cog