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Blog Anniversaire

11 March 2004

I’m one year old today- huzzah! Highlights (well, notable/interesting posts) of the year include:

I have to start sometime – Where it all began twelve looong months ago. (Doesn’t it seem like forever?)

An Inspector Calls – I get all hot under the collar about the Mozilla DOM Inspector and its potential to enable people to easily confuse web applications. No one else cared.

The people’s web – In which I say “anyone who wants to publish their stuff on the web should be wholeheartedly encouraged” and mean it, and the world cheers.

Sleight of hand – This has to be the most heavily trafficked post on the site. I took YoungPup’s Sleight technique for enabling alpha PNGs in IE and modified it to work with background images.

This man must be stopped – The BBC have a lot of good reporters. They have some bad ones too.

The times they are onchanging – The form auto-fill features of the Google Toolbar cause me some concern. Not that I’m one to rant or anything.

Dear Apple Computer – The one where I whore myself for the sake of technology. It didn’t work.

The Damned Key – I got pissed-off and poetical. A dangerous combination, with frightening results.

Windows is a bitch … and then it dies – Our Windows server dies. Which reminds me, I still have told you about the follow-up episode two weeks ago.

Mailio – I announce my (still ongoing) project developing a friendly web mail client for kids.

First Impressions – I finally give in and buy a PowerBook. Read my initial thoughts on the same.

Seriously, it feels like I’ve been doing this for much longer than a year, but I’m still enjoying it immensely. Thanks to everyone who’s contributed via comments throughout the year. Here’s to the next.

- Drew McLellan

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Drew McLellan has been hacking on the web since around 1996 following an unfortunate incident with a margarine tub. Since then he’s spread himself between both front- and back-end development projects, and now is Director and Senior Web Developer at edgeofmyseat.com in Maidenhead, UK (GEO: 51.5217, -0.7177). Prior to this, Drew was a Web Developer for Yahoo!, and before that primarily worked as a technical lead within design and branding agencies for clients such as Nissan, Goodyear Dunlop, Siemens/Bosch, Caburys, ICI Dulux and Virgin.net. Somewhere along the way, Drew managed to get himself embroiled with Dreamweaver and was made an early Macromedia Evangelist for that product. This lead to book deals, public appearances, fame, glory, and his eventual downfall.

Picking himself up again, Drew is now a strong advocate for best practises, and stood as Group Lead for The Web Standards Project 2006-08. He has had articles published by A List Apart, Adobe, and O’Reilly Media’s XML.com, mostly due to mistaken identity. Drew is a proponent of the lower-case semantic web, and is currently expending energies in the direction of the microformats movement, with particular interests in making parsers an off-the-shelf commodity and developing simple UI conventions. He writes here at all in the head and, with a little help from his friends, at 24 ways.