Posts by: greg
i recently upgraded a WordPress installation, and consequently, updated my jQuery library to a new version. instead of rolling back to a previous version of jQuery, i wanted to figure out why the scripts i had written were no longer working. before you find yourself beating your head on your desk, take note that as [...]
it’s pretty easy to voice your opinion about SOPA. take the mere 5 seconds you need to get it done. ending piracy is a worthy endeavor but giving control of web censorship to the hollywood & the film industry doesn’t seem like a good idea.
one-step process to notify your congressional representative:
[...]
if doug crockford is javascript jesus, then dave herman is an ecma apostle.
ecmascript 6 has a lot of really cool stuff! i will be using several of the new features as soon as there is a shiv to make them compatible – they look really useful. some of the new features are beyond [...]
i was watching a javascript talk featuring doug crockford. i wanted to find the next one in the series, but couldn’t find it. i quickly realized that whoever uploaded the series of videos had fun naming them – each video has a different version of the name of the sequence. they all begin with “Crockford [...]
made this a while back, and figured i’d share. it’s a rainbow flag / gay pride flag made entirely in css3:
#flag {
width: 450px;
height: 300px;
background-size: 100% 100%;
background-image: linear-gradient(bottom,
rgba(77,20,140,1) 0%,
[...]
notes from Kristina Halvorson’s talk “A Content Strategy Roadmap” at AEA2011SF
Content first!
Content strategy plans for the creation, delivery and governance of content.
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
– Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“We need to [...]
notes from Andy Clarke’s talk “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” at AEA2011SF:
check out luke wroblewski’s notes on the same talk:
http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1471
madmanimation
(how it was made, in css3)
what do you think of when you hear web animation? you probably think of flash.
css3 animations are a new and [...]
notes from Aarron Walter’s talk “Idea to Interface” at AEA2011SF
execution vs creative thinking
when you stop thinking creatively, it’s bad for you, your boss, the business
how to promote creative thinking:
– independent thinking
– start an independent project
get in the habit of having new ideas
1,000 things [...]
notes from Nicole Sullivan’s talk “Using Flexible Boxes” at AEA2011SF
things to avoid:
!important declarations
float (too many means you don’t have an abstract layout mechanism)
font-size
myth: pixel-based font sizes are naughty.
why did we stop using pixels for fonts? (IE6 didn’t allow you to re-size pixel-based [...]
works on everything > ie6 (from the facebook stylesheet)
.clearfix:after {
clear: both;
content: ".";
display: block;
font-size: 0;
height: 0;
line-height: 0;
visibility: hidden;
}
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