Web development can often be a daunting concept and the idea of “coding” an intimidating adversary. The team over at Treehouse has come up with a really cool game called Code Racer that makes coding and learning to code fun! This multi-player game is a really neat idea and I know that I will be telling my dev students about it! Read the rest of this entry »
For those of you who are not aware, there is bill being passed through congress, that is funded primarily by major networks production companies and music labels, called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). This bill, introduced in October of 2011, in concept is a great idea that in at face would protect against theft. The only problem here is that this bill creates legal loop holes that can readily be misused to shut down competition or for other malicious reasons. Beyond that there are already two existing bills that address this issue and provide victims of piracy means for taking action, namely the PRO-IP Act of 2008 and the corresponding Senate bill, the PROTECT IP Act. Read the rest of this entry »
Internet Explorer (IE) is the bane of every developer’s existence. I am sure that I have wasted at least a year of my life in aggregate of the time that I have spent debugging and fighting with one version or another of IE. Despite my hopes of IE6′s quick but painful death, the W3CSchool’s statics on IE, and even Microsoft launch of IE6 countdown (a push to wean the world off the crack that is IE6), the browser still has a whopping 8.3% strangle hold on the world’s population’s portal to the information super highway… :_(
Is it thus so much to ask for Chrismukkah this year that IE6 just die already?!? Well maybe someone is listening… Read the rest of this entry »
So sure, I am as much an angry birds fan as the next guy. Kill a few minutes here or there. Sure. Challenge your ability to eyeball a yelling birds trajectory…Sure. But I think that this Rovio executive’s wife has taken this a bit too far… It took me a second to catch onto what was going on here, but kind of off the hook awesome, right? Check it out Read the rest of this entry »
Building upon the past two modules, this week my budding young front-end web developers are faced with the challenging topics of CSS floats and positioning. Pop quiz: Can you make the design seen below using XHTML and CSS only? My students can… Read the rest of this entry »
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