Throughout my career in web development & design, I have encountered many ways of pronouncing the same thing. A primary example is “.gif”. Some people pronounce it as “ga-hiff” while other pronounce it like the peanut butter brand, “jif”. (I’m a “ga-hiff” fan of the picture format, and a “jif” fan of the peanut butter brand.)

Earlier this week, I came across a blog article that was a tutorial for how to create a web page. Within this article, there was a note. The note directed that the many people who say “<a HREF…>” as “Eh, Aitch Ref” are completely wrong, and “Eh, Harref” was correct.

As superfluous as which the correct pronunciation may really be, I completely will go to debate on that blog article’s note. The HTML attribute “HREF” is a mash up of “hyperlink” or “html” & “reference”. So yes, I say it should be pronounced “Eh, Aitch Ref”, not what could be someone’s name.

I invite you to take the poll: How do you pronounce “<a HREF..>”?

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A friend who’s been able to turn his hobby of computers into an IT career choice (systems/network administrator) told me something that surprised me a little.

Okay, I can tell I am sick of computers. I walked into Micro Center and saw a nice rig. A quad core AMD machine, 4GB RAM, 1TB hard-drive, decent video for $200.00. My reaction?? “Meh.”

I literally had to giggle. I couldn’t believe that his inner geek couldn’t muster any excitement about this relatively new technology on store shelves at a really good price. Has his career stagnated his inner geek that much? Or has the foundation of computers not change enough to impact the IT field?
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