Eugene Ruthven
June 2014
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I've finally revamped this blog to take into account HTML5, tablets and cells.
As you would have noticed, this blog doesn't look like any other blog that you may have seen.
I did have a look at others like WordPress. I even set up a blog using Wordpress.
But...I was not happy with the way it looked and some of the things it did.
For one thing, I like using my monitors at as high a resolution as possible - usually 1600x1200 and with my wide screen monitors - 1920x1200. With the exception of one or two websites that I've come across every website is unable to take advantage of this space to show more content at once. Additionally, with the explosion of tablets and phones, can the website handle those environments without doing multiple versions of the site?
This is an effort to meet this challenge. This website should adjust itself to the browser window's size - showing as much as possible given the available space - large or small.
The 5 things I've done are:
I've done this through the use of:
I've made the assumption that all browsers will be HTML5 compliant. It's time to stop worrying about anything before then.
My name is Eugene Ruthven.
This blog will reflect my views from here in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I've been here since 1997. Before that time I lived in various places in Southern Ontario: Stoney Creek, Smithville area, Bancroft area, Peterborough and London (that's Ontario). I had spent 2 years in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, from 1980 to '82.
I did a B.Sc.(Applied Mathematics) at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, in 1983 - a good many years ago.
My blog will be about my adventures with tech and business stuff:
I've been into computers since 1980 when I got my first exposure to the Apple II. Before then I had used mainframe and mini computers at university but I had not found them interesting at that time because access was limited. With micros, and now also smartphones and tablets a person has complete control over the whole system so anything you wanted to try you could go ahead and do so. Since then I have been working with micros mostly from a programming perspective: end-user applications that used databases. But one thing I never got into was video/computer games - they just don't turn me on - which is a shame because of the money to be made in that area.