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There is a long list of folks who I'll never meet, but for whom I'd love to buy a beer, and Meyer is at the top. After the dot-com crash I found myself coding
by ubermonkey 5y ago
There is a long list of folks who I'll never meet, but for whom I'd love to buy a beer, and Meyer is at the top.
After the dot-com crash I found myself coding again, and fell into CSS with his book, and managed to carve out a spot for myself as a bit of an early CSS guru in my professional network. Doing that saved my house, quite literally.
CSS can be gnarly and frustrating. This was even MORE true back then when you basically had to create parallel implementations of the same layout to support IE's willfully wrong interpretations of the box model (oh, and its bugs). But it beat the everliving crap out of what came before.
I've long since left that part of my career -- I mostly talk and tell people what to do now -- but I'll always love CSS a little for that period of my life.
- JoeCianflone 5y agoFunny story: I went to An Event Apart in NYC years ago (I think they’ve only had 1 in NYC) and I’m enamored by the people around me and Eric Meyer grabs the seat next to me while Zeldman is on stage and he’s quietly kind of heckling him (like a friend would not in a bad or mean way…and he couldn’t hear it). I’m sitting there, next to a person I very much admired, like Troy meeting LeVar Burton in Community trying to no freak out. It’s hard not to understate the impact Meyer, Zeldman, and A List Apart had on general front end development.
- playingchanges 5y agoI sat at a lunch table with Eric at an Event Apart SF a couple years ago, super friendly guy. Really recommend that conference I had a great time.