Wild in Kentucky

Web development is a great field to work in for a lot of reasons, but for me the best reason is the variety. One day you’ll be adding a guest editor to a high-volume cooking website, the next day you’re adjusting the responsive menu on a drug-culture magazine, and the day after that you’ll be tweaking the …

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Front-end Developer Employer Questions

The Front-end Job Interview Questions list (https://github.com/darcyclarke/Front-end-Developer-Interview-Questions) is pretty awesome–if you’re an employer. It gave me the idea to have a list of questions for front-end developers to ask prospective employers. These questions cover employers who are large enough to have a dedicated development team. It should work reasonably well for both agencies and companies …

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Opacity in decimal, then Hex

If you’ve ever set CSS background colors to semi-transparent, you’ve had to make the cross-browser compatible. Here’s the basic code: background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.BasicImage(rotation=1); filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=#cc0E212A, endColorstr=#cc0E212A); -ms-filter: “progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=#cc0E212A, endColorstr=#cc0E212A)”; The first line is for all the modern browsers, the next three for MSIE varients (IE7, IE8, etc). Important to note – don’t …

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