Brendan McKenzie

This has been discussed over and over and over and over again, and you would think in 2012 with HTML5 this conversation would have been put to sleep a long time ago. Unfortunately, not.

I'm making the move from my old website to my new one, and didn't want to lose all my data so here's a snap shot of my old 'About' page, which I'll get around to setting up on this site at some point.

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Today I was tasked with answering a customer query regarding IPv6 and whether it will have any impact on their website. I initially wasn't sure how to address this, but did my best to respond.

So the project I'm working on one of the tasks was to review the countless exception emails that get sent to all the developers and triage them. Determine which ones to fix and which to ignore.

Too many times architects and/or developers will start a project with delusions of grandeur, instead of addressing the issue and achieving the required goal, they end up tacking on so much more than is actually asked for which more often than not ends up in more of a mess than if they took the simple approach.

After a discussion on the feasibility of open source, I needed to get my thoughts out there on the topic.

So I'm a little late to the party on this one apparently but it seems too good to be true, and I'm putting it here simply so I don't forget about it.

My current task is to investigate what technologies to port the current WebForms application to, it's been decided that we will go towards MVC, but I need to determine what extra technologies will be needed to match (and of course, better..) the current site.

I've always had great respect for good web designers. They need to know enough about how websites work as well as having an eye for making things look good. From my own perspective I know how websites work, from HTTP requests to how HTML and CSS get rendered, but when it comes to design, quite simply: I suck. (Which explains why this blog is running a stock-standard BlogEngine.NET theme)