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New rhino on the block

16 March 2003

I have a fairly large collection of computer books. Most of them are technical references for web technologies. Some get used more than others.

The rhino book gets a lot of attention. I’m one of that strange breed of developer who really loves JavaScript, and Flanagan’s tome is somewhat indispensable. Equally useful, however, is the bare-bones pocket version of the same.

My JavaScript Pocket Reference is falling to bits. The cover is a complete mess. The edges of the pages are brown from where my thumb has rubbed against them as I’ve flicked through looking for a reference. The spine is broken, and the glue has cracked.

So when I spotted the 2nd Edition in a bookstore yesterday there was no decision to be made. The guy at the till couldn’t quite understand why I was willing to pay such a relatively large sum of money for such a small book. They don’t understand. No one understands. Mw-ha-ha. Mwhahahahahaha!

- Drew McLellan

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  1. § Nathan Pitman: Drew my friend, you indeed very strange.
  2. § S: ”I’m one of that strange bread of developer”

    You men ”Breed”

    Or do you smell great when you come out of the oven? ;-)
  3. § Drew: Mmmm bread :)

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Drew McLellan (@drewm) 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, Cadburys, 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.

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