Vacation reading: 456 Berea Street unplugged
It’s that time of the year again: summer in the Northern Hemisphere. For me that means following the Swedish tradition of taking a long summer vacation. For the next five weeks I will try to stay away from computers and check out the real world.
That includes not checking or responding to e-mail, not checking stats for this site, and not checking my feed subscriptions. I’m not completely confident that I will make it, but I will try because I really need to unplug for a while. Meanwhile you are still welcome to make yourselves at home here.
There won’t be any new articles posted until my vacation is over and I’ve had some time to catch up, which means around mid August. Comments are still open on all posts I’ve made this year, so feel free to keep the discussions going. Just don’t wait for a reply from me. I will try to catch up with everything when I get back though. That may take a while, depending on how much has been going on.
I’ll leave you with some highlights of what I have written so far this year. Most of the articles have been published here on 456 Berea Street, but a few articles in Swedish have been published elsewhere. Enjoy!
Published on 456 Berea Street
- The perils of using XHTML properly
- Accessibility charlatans
- Basics of search engine optimisation
- Efficient CSS with shorthand properties
- Setting the current menu state with CSS
- CSS tips and tricks, Part 1
- CSS tips and tricks, Part 2
- Fixed or fluid width? Elastic!
- Usability testing without a budget
- Transparent custom corners and borders
- Accessibility myths and misconceptions
- Safari wishlist
- Web standards vs. Accessibility
- Customising custom corners and borders
Published on 24timmarsbloggen (in Swedish)
Published on NetRelations.se (in Swedish)
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Roger Johansson is a Swedish web professional specialising in web standards, accessibility, and usability. More about me and this site.
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Comments
Roger,
Have a great vacation!
I'm looking forward to a joint ambition this Fall to make the web a better place (cliché, I know).
Who are you kidding? Oh, well... I'm collecting bets on the date of your return to blogging :)
Have a great time! What I would do with 5 weeks off
FIVE WEEKS VACATION?! I'm emigrating to Sweden...
I never considered Sweden to have a summer. I am in Australia where it's supposed to be summer all year. It is bucketing down rain, blowing a gale, freezing cold, and I have no chance of a holiday for months. It even looks like this weekend's fishing tournament will be cancelled. Oh, well, enjoy yourself!
Have Fun!!! Just finished mine!
Have fun on your vacation :-)
Have Fun Roger, The only time we get a long holiday is when we are at school.
I think I might have a word with the boss and see if we can have a more Scandinavian approach to work, it sounds great!
Hey Roger, great website!
Have a nice vacation. I'm with you :)
Actually, all Swedes have at least five weeks of vacation, some of us six.
And there is a law that says that you have the right to four consecutive weeks in row during the Summer months (June, July and August).
However, we hardly ever see the daylight during Winter, so we deserve it... :-)
Yeah, I've heard you are all Solar-powered, I expect to be taking a long unplugged break too but nearer 16 weeks.
Have fun dudes!
Well Roger.. hope you'll have a great vacation and let's hope the weather will be your friend. ;-)
Hope I could have some rest too, but no.. :/
Okay, tak care, Roger, have a great time off. In the meanwhile I'll at least have some time to read all the articles I haven't managed to go through during the year.
Have an excellent summer!
Have a nice rest Roger, you deserve it ;-)
While you were away....working on your tan...the following occurred today:
http://webstandards.org/press/releases/archive/2005/07/05/index.html
And it is very exciting news for anyone of us interested in this sort of thing. :)
im on my last weeks of vacation doing nothing and get paid for it :)
Svenska semestrar, helt underbart är det.
Själv kollar jag till datorn lite snabbt vart tredje dag för tillfället så jag hinner se om jag fått någon viktig mail.
Men vilket underbart väder vi fått!
Ha en riktigt skön semester.
Be sure to grab Spolsky's "Best Software Writing I" for reading on the beach... :)
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