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CSS 3D Transforms on Dev.Opera 19 Jun 2013 | 08:25 am
Though I am no longer with Opera, I do plan to keep contributing to their Dev.Opera site. As part of the launch of Opera 15 beta for desktop computers, they recently published a piece I wrote about CS...
Dragon slayed, but I still don’t love math 4 Jun 2013 | 09:19 am
In February, I signed up for the last available section of an elementary algebra class at Pierce College. My grand plan was to finally conquer my math demons and maybe even go back to school for a com...
On “Lean In” 29 Apr 2013 | 02:00 pm
Sheryl Sandberg is a formidable woman. She is, after all, the Harvard Business School educated, well-connected billionaire COO of Facebook. And that makes people want to listen to her and heed her adv...
Media queries in SVG and background-size 21 Apr 2013 | 06:01 am
By now, you probably know it’s possible to use media queries in SVG. As with media queries in HTML documents, you can use CSS to adjust layout — or in this case, things like stroke and fill — based on...
Smoothing jagged edges on transformed objects in Firefox 14 Apr 2013 | 09:41 am
Transformed elements in Firefox sometimes appear with jagged edges. The anti-aliasing isn’t as smooth as what you find in Webkit-based browsers or Internet Explorer (Figure 1). Figure 2. An image with...
Career crossroads, culture and community 16 Mar 2013 | 10:48 am
My stretch of funemployment has given me some time to consider the themes of culture and community, particularly as they relate to the world of technology. It’s safe to say that I’m at a career crossr...
Math anxiety is real: on slaying my dragon and learning to love math* 13 Mar 2013 | 02:12 am
While working on my article last year about the CSS Transforms Matrix, I had to re-visit some math that I hadn’t really touched since maybe 9th grade. In fact, I don’t actually remember learning it th...
How every conversation about race ever on the internet goes 26 Feb 2013 | 10:20 am
Someone makes a comment or corny “joke” that is kinda racist and kinda classist, but mostly harmless.1 Someone else — sometimes in the group targeted, sometimes not — says “Hey THAT’S RACIST!” Someone...
Why doesn’t my scale3d() / scaleZ() transform work? 25 Feb 2013 | 07:13 am
One of the trickier parts of 3D transforms is understanding how the scaleZ() and scale3d() functions work. When applied to an element, they will often appear to have no effect. But then at other times...
A look at the Page Visibility API 4 Feb 2013 | 07:00 pm
You’re sitting in your office with your speakers un-muted. Maybe you’re making plans for dinner, and decide to check out the web site of that hot new restaurant in the North Trendy neighborhood. Of co...
