Reinhold Weber

Confessions of a web developer

June 26, 2009

CSS3 – a big storm is coming

CSS3 features that will change our approach to web design and will separate the wheat from the chaff.

June 26, 2009

Best Practices to optimize CSS – an academic exercise

Premature optimization is NOT the root of all evil – Lack of proper planning is the root of all evil.

June 20, 2009

Refactoring your CSS styles to comply with the DRY principle

CSS is per definition and design a complete violation of the DRY principle: Don’t Repeat Yourself, in CSS repetition and redundancy are volitionally built in and encouraged from the start.

May 23, 2009

PHP programmer’s evolution scribble

Showcases different methods of connecting to a database with PHP.

May 13, 2009

PHP vs Python vs Ruby – OOP style syntax

An aesthetic comparison between PHP, Ruby and Python syntax.

January 8, 2009

Data visualisation of country codes with CSS & PHP

Another of my data visualisation experiments with PHP and CSS. Inspired by this poster from historyshots.com.

January 3, 2009

CSS deployment – compress multiple css files into one single line

Compress multiple css files into one single line with this css preprocessor PHP snippet.

December 30, 2008

Some CSS developer truths

99% of all the stylesheets out there are just designers trying to show off …

November 25, 2008

CSS deployment – combine css files into a master file

No matter how many files you add while developing, before launch you can use a build script that merges them all so you can save HTTP requests.

November 20, 2008

Color cloud experiment with PHP & CSS

Two of the things I really love about the web are data visualisations and mixing css with php.