[Daniel] New Job & Moving

In addition to running Django Dash, the last month and a half have been consumed with job hunting. I received an offer in early May for a company known as Mediaphormedia. They build a newspaper CMS called Ellington. I'm extremely excited, as I'll primarily be working in Python/Django and (hopefully) building some really cool stuff.

This, however, does mean a move, as M4M is located in Lawrence, KS. Lawrence is actually a pretty cool place, a college town and vegan friendly. Moriah visited with me a second time and gave it her approval. So come the end of this month, we'll be picking the family up and moving to Lawrence.

We're excited for the kids as well. Lawrence has a couple benefits over Austin, in that it has the four seasons (as opposed to summer year-round), it's smaller (80K vs. 1M+ people) and there's a great community there. Austin's been a good place to get started but there's been a lot of things left to be desired. Plus family will be a lot closer, potentially on both Moriah & my sides.

Everything has been pretty much falling into place, which I take as a good sign. It's sad to say goodbye to friends here but we have to do what's right for our family. Here's to adventure!

[Daniel] Moving Back To HTML 4.01...

Via this and this, I'm moving away from XHTML 1 Strict to HTML 4.01 Strict. I've read several of the arguments against XHTML before (including Hixie's famous piece) but always felt that writing XHTML was easier for me to parse, validate and ensure a comparable cross-browser experience. That changed today, especially via the WebKit piece.

I've prided myself on XHTML compliance before, except that it was never really compliance. Always served with the wrong MIME type (so IE would display it), the browsers would always just convert it to tag soup anyhow, and any content I didn't control (YouTube videos, comments, etc.) never conformed anyhow. I always just explained it away as "doing the best thing for the web" by trying to do things "better".

I haven't changed the source of Snow-Wolf or any of the other sites I maintain yet but that will come soon. I'm actually lightly upset about this. I feel kinda stupid for sticking to it for so long, for arguing for it, only to lapse away. Yay me.