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5 cool & useful HTML5 tags

<contentditable = “true”> lets the reader edit content within the div <video>  directly embeds a video on a page, no plugins, iframes etc <small>   presents small text, great for styling <header> & <footer> pretty self explanatory

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Barbie codes

The internet recently fixed Matel’s  Barbie “I can be a computer engineer” book.  Check out more cartoons from  The Verge  ,someone also deployed a Heroku app  for people to make their own!  

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Fave website for the month

Bootsnipp wins my award for the most interesting code snippet site for twitter bootstrap. It’s interesting to see what other people have made and how you can modify it. They have snippets for all versions starting from 2.32. It’s pretty cool check out their featured snippets section!

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Another Bootstrap Video Header

Another day in the life of a twitter bootstrap project. This one involved a  video header. The header scales down to an image on phones. Modified a bit from a blog along the way. Here’s an explanation from another blog View the completed project at http://kauress.github.io/goappzone/ https://gist.github.com/Kauress/521f3c237643f6d2af51 https://gist.github.com/Kauress/ad6461c01f0db114bc39  

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Full Webpage Video Background in Twitter Bootstrap

  Check this out pretty cool: http://kauress.github.io/MooseFrye/ Done with Twitter Bootsrap 3 , change media queries to show a background pic on phones. Code for it is:      <div class =”section”> <div class=”text-vertical-center”> <video autoplay loop poster=”img/bg.png” id=”bgvid”> <source src=”vid/1.webm” type=”video/webm”> <source src=”vid/2.mp4″ type=”video/mp4″> <source src=”vid/3.ogg” type=”video/ogg”/> </video> </div> I modified it just a bit from the original source (launchrocket). A boot snipp is also

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Twitter Bootstrapping it in a day

Twitter Bootsrap ( aka TB if that wasn’t already a sickness!) is great to use. I’ve been experimenting with it for the past 1 and a half weeks. Literally you can put up a landing page in a dy (less if you’re a tb ninja…).  Here’s one day bootstrap mockups for a few competitions: Some Twitetr bootstrap projects up here: A cool trick for TB,

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Coursera: Learning how to learn

I finished the learning how to learn video lectures on coursera by Terrence Sejnowski and Barbara Oakley, It was  interesting especially now that I no longer have to write tests and exams, I can actually enjoy learning (the irony!). Here’s an infographic on the entire course 🙂 Btw right click and save it for later!

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Assembling request handlers for the router in your node.js server

It’s been a long time since I did one of these, I’ve just been too busy with tinkering with JS which is turning out to be my favorite language. This is again from the nodebeginner book by Manuel Kiessling. Anyways after assembling your router,it must route specific requests to their appropriate destinations. In this case the requests such as start and upload  are routed to

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The Pre Wiki Primer for Object Oriented Programming (OOP)

Disclaimer: This article intends to be a primer so that you may gain insight in order to understand beginner OOP articles better (for example on wikipedia). In order to grasp more abstract concepts, suspend as much logic as you would when watching Star Trek. Message not sponsored by anyone I know. Some neurons dissipated during the writing of this.                

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