Kroc Camen of Camen design describes the principles he uses when developing software

1. Kroc Camen

2. code is art

3. Camen Design

4. Three Principles

5. I. Code is Art (art is personality)

6. HTML5 since 2008; No <div> s. No <span> s. No classes. No IDs (presentational)

7. II. Solve Only My Problem “ The Internet is full of generic code that solves generic problems, generically.”

8. Be personal. “ Blog for yourself, not for others.”

9. Don’t do what others say. No imaginary customer / boss / market-share to hold you back

10. III. Let Everybody Else Do Their Job “ Don’t lower your standards, simplify your methods.”

12. No comments. email or blog

13. “ The more JavaScript you add to a comment system, the worse it gets.”

15. No social junk. copy + paste, bookmarks

16. Some Things I Made

17. Video for Everybody:

18. HTML was designed to last. JavaScript wasn’t. HTML5 Video first, Flash second

19. VfE is a pattern, not a product! Use &quot;Media Element JS&quot; instead!

20. ReMarkable:

22. Markdown: ~1’400 loc Perl!

23. PHPMarkdownExtra: ~ 3’000 loc, 2 classes, 85 functions (It does a lot more though!)

24. ReMarkable: 630 loc, 1 function

25. ^:: (?:#([0-9a-z_-]+) )?(.*){0,2}((?:+.*)+|(?:+.*(?:|())?)+)?(?=::|<dl>)

26. NoNonsense Forum:

30. The forum is not dead, it just lost its way

32. Discussion has been drowned-out by ego.

33. NoNonsense Forum

34. No database Just RSS

35. No hurdles Register + post at the same time. No CAPTCHA

37. No distraction, just discussion No avatars, no post ranks, no signatures, no profiles

39. iOS, Android, Kindle (including e-ink) & more

41. Easy to theme Templates are HTML and HTML only; no `{{template tags}}` or mixed server / client code.

43. NNF is not trying to be the only forum in town (e.g. phpBB)

44. It’s good for team / office discussion

47. Thank You. Questions?