Wow. I got a recognition award at the New Mexico Technology Council’s Women in Technology awards celebration. It was an exciting honor to get an award in the same ceremony as 9 other women who are doing things with technology like saving lives, creating clean energy, desalinating water, and managing tech companies. Yeah, PhDs and [...]
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Are you a fan of “Friday Night Lights?” Great show, in my opinion. Remember the episode called “Blinders?” That was the episode in which Coach Mac McGill, played by Blue Deckert, made some racist remarks to a reporter. His apology is lame and all the African American players march off the field and refuse to [...]
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Cameron Moll made a set of whiteboard magnets of HTML5 tags for his own family. He’s released the Illustrator file for you to do the same. Great idea for people teaching HTML5. HTML5 Whiteboard Magnets. JAWS, IE and Headings in HTML5. Must reading for accessibility information about how JAWS interprets heading structure, particularly in IE. [...]
It’s Ada Lovelace Day! This day is for all of us to honor, mention, and share the names of the women in STEM that we admire. Who’s my choice for 2011? Emily Lewis! Emily is a web designer running her own business at Emily Lewis Design. She has a blog at A Blog Not Limited. [...]
Thursday, September 15, 2011
I’ve stumbled on a few nice resources for articles and interviews about women in tech of late. Thought I’d share. Gaming Angels has a section of interviews with women who work in gaming or tech. Geek Feminism Blog is running a series of articles called Wednesday Geek Women that deals with women from the past. [...]
The White House has challenged developers to develop apps that help prevent abuse. The announcement at Challenge.gov is called Apps Against Abuse. The challenge: Vice President Biden and Secretary Sebelius are honored to announce a challenge that encourages the development of applications that provide college students and young adults with the tools to help prevent [...]
Back when I lived in Austin, the live music capital of the world, I was doing some freelance web design. I made a number of sites for musicians. Among them was Mady Kaye, a jazz vocalist. The Jazz Mady has a solo career with 3 CDs under her own name. She’s part of a group [...]
A whole bunch of Amazing Stuff Pseudo Elements can Do is from CSS Tricks. On using h1 for all heading levels in HTML5 from 446 Berea Street. This worries me, too. Happy to see Roger doing some testing on it. Is There Still a Social Stigma for Geek Girls? What do you think? The GOP [...]
Open Culture is a great resource for all kinds of educational podcasts and videos. Check out the technology podcasts list. Some terrific programs there that you will enjoy. Have you heard of rem? It means “root em” and is a new feature in CSS 3 that you can learn about from Jonathan Snook in Font-sizing [...]
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