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CDN, Relative URLs and local testing

mdvanes — Mon, 13 May 2013 12:31:56 +0000

Of course I use this CDN refs to jquery and jquery-ui for my (new) sites, with fallbacks to local versions:

Play and Sass

mdvanes — Wed, 01 May 2013 12:32:31 +0000

When working with the Play Framework, you have the choice to run develop your CSS in LESS, for which it has build-in support, or Sass, for which you'll have to install a plugin.

Fronteers 2012: CSS

mdvanes — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 12:50:58 +0000

Just like last year, this post is an reduced version of the talk by the inimitable Lea Verou with inline demo's. It's based on the video recording of her talk and her slides.

Multiple jQuery versions

mdvanes — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:26:52 +0000

Sometimes you find yourself in a situation where you need to use a new version of jQuery but the project already uses an older version and you're not at liberty to just update it. It's possible to use multiple versions of jQuery in the same document.

On Sass and Compass

mdvanes — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 06:02:36 +0000

Yesterday, I attended a training on Sass and Compass by Roy Tomeij organised by Fronteers. Sass is a CSS meta language and compiles to CSS, to make it easier to maintain than CSS yet still usable in the same browsers.

Fronteers 2011: Experimental Features

mdvanes — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:21:07 +0000

This article discusses some experimental browser features from several talks at Fronteers 2011. Since these are experimental features it doesn't work predictably across all browsers. Try Firefox 10+ or Chrome 17+ to see it the way I intended it to work.

Fronteers 2011: CSS

mdvanes — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 20:47:18 +0000

Warning! This article might crash Internet Explorer!

This is the first in - what I hope will be - a series of articles on the useful information I received from visiting the Fronteers 2011 conference in Amsterdam last October. Like my articles of last year's conference, I will not give a talk-by-talk summary, but rather pick out the subjects that interest me most and expand on those subjects, while referring to the original talks to give credits due.

Science

mdvanes — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 10:20:24 +0000

Timetravel and mind reading all in one day. What's next? Cars that can drive upside down?

Reviving a laptop

mdvanes — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:30:16 +0000

I was "reviving" a laptop for a friend. Just had to run the restore CD's and everything should be done. Of course, it is never that simple...

Vista Hard Disk Activity

mdvanes — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 08:15:03 +0000

When a friend complains their PC is slow, what do you do? Some people I know would advise buying a new PC. Or a Mac. But not me, because as we all know, I am masochistic. After all, I code standard compliant HTML.