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Jens Oliver Meiert is a web developer and author (ex-Google, W3C, O’Reilly). He specializes in the management and quality assurance of complex websites, the development and deployment of web frameworks, as well as code efficiency and maintainability. Jens contributes to technical standards and regularly writes about his work and research, particularly on his website, meiert.com.
Other titles by Jens Oliver Meiert:
What is a BHO? CQRS? An EMD? What is Goanna? Hooking? Sharding? How about dynamic color, the phoenix server pattern, or the rules of ARIA? Covering more than 3,000 terms and concepts, and including explanations from Wikipedia and MDN Web Docs, The Web Development Glossary 3K provides an overview of web development unlike any other book or site.
Available at Apple Books, Kobo, Google Play Books, and Leanpub. (Try the glossary online at WebGlossary.info.)
The Little Book of Little Books consists of lovingly polished editions of The Little Book of HTML/CSS Frameworks (originally published in 2015), The Little Book of HTML/CSS Coding Guidelines (2015), and The Little Book of Website Quality Control (2016).
Available at Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo, Google Play Books, and Leanpub.
CSS Optimization Basics (2018)
Are you unsure about your style sheets’ quality, or whether you’ve maxed out your options? CSS Optimization Basics covers the necessary mindsets, discusses the main optimization methods, and presents useful resources to write higher-quality CSS.
Available at Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo, Google Play Books, and Leanpub.
On Web Development (2015)
On Web Development bundles 134 articles and the last 11 years of technical writings by Jens Oliver Meiert (meiert.com). Freshly reordered and commented, the articles cover processes and maintenance, HTML and CSS, standards, as well as development and design in general; they include coding basics and principles, carefully scathing criticism, and tips and tricks and trivia.
Available at Amazon.
With the speed of web development today, it’s little wonder that so many frameworks are available, since they come with a promise of saving development and design time. But using the wrong framework, or wrongly using the right framework, can be costly. This concise book shares higher-level ideas around web development frameworks that govern HTML and CSS code, whether you’re looking at an external option or planning to build your own.
Available at O’Reilly.