Wednesday, September 1, 2010
The Wilderness Downtown is a fascinating interactive film built in HTML5 for Chrome by some Google folks. It only works in Chrome, but it’s worth downloading and installing Chrome if you don’t already have it, just to see what is possible with the technology. There are other Chrome experiments, also. Dive into the Modern Web [...]
Where are the women in IT Consulting by Chip Camden is from Tech Republic. Maybe you saw this weekend’s rant over at TechCrunch saying that it’s not men’s fault that we can’t find any women in tech. My response is to offer some kudos to Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin at The Big Web Show, [...]
Saturday, August 21, 2010
28 HTML5 Features, Tips, and Techniques you Must Know is an excellent list from Jeffrey Way. Longdesc may be dropped from the HTML5 spec. Right now it’s in the “let’s argue about it” phase. WebAxe has a discussion by podcast with some folks who examine the issue. The Fate of Longdesc in HTML5. What’s the [...]
From The Access Point, a listing of the most influential women’s voices on the web. ABIE from Access Communications The Access Point is using the post/graphic to bring attention to their new ranking tool, ABIE, that “determines online influence based not only on data from the top ‘ranking’ services out there, but also on factors [...]
jQuery: A Designer’s Perspective at scriptjunkie is a good introduction to jQuery. Unless you’ve been living under a rock lately, you probably know that Jailbreaking iPhone apps is now legal. Well, it’s legal according to the DMCA. Apple says it voids your warranty, however. Women in Technology is a thoughtful essay at Stubbornella (Nicole Sullivan’s [...]
Tech tips, geeky how-tos, thoughtful analysis of issues, news about the latest gadgets, ideas for improving your blog—you’ll find it all in these 10 terrific tech and science blogs. They just happen to be written by women. I. Hacker Chick The Hacker Chick Blog is a beautiful starting point. I say beautiful because the graphics [...]
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A call for help with a technical problem to a line called Builder Support is making the rounds of the Internet. During the anniversary of Pac-Man last week, there was a small Pac-Man game on the Google search page. The call is about that noisy Pac-Man game. Most people think it’s worth linking to and [...]
The Stylemaster folks at WestCiv have some online CSS tools that are useful. Make gradients, transforms, shadows and stroke text with these tools. Small icons on each tool show you which browsers currently support these CSS3 techniques. The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing for 2010 is themed “Collaborating Across Boundaries.” It’s set in [...]
The group pool I started on Flickr for images of Women in Tech now has over 200 images. The tags accompanying these images tell a story of where the images were taken. Is there a tech event with women involved that isn’t represented in this tag cloud? Are there photos of women from the event [...]
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Removing the Details and Summary Elements at Burningbird is an extremely well organized and rational response to an issue ongoing in the development of HTML5 right now. Fast Company listed the most influential women in tech. It’s all good, but the most interesting list for web geeks is the evangelists list, which includes Shireen Mitchell, [...]