This week’s Programming By Stealth was great fun. Bart Busschots teaches us how to create a web form using the Bootstrap classes to do the job. He explains how Bootstrap literally insists that we make our code accessible, and how sensible it is to just that. We learn the importance of Form Groups, and how […]
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Chit Chat Across the Pond is a weekly interview show on the topic of technology, or sometimes just with someone really interesting.
CCATP #562 – Dr. Michael Kramer on the Study of Digital History
I know I say this every week, but I had the best time recording this week with Dr. Michael Kramer, a digital historian from Middlebury College in Vermont. Michael talks about the impact of digital technology on history and culture and the humanities. We talk about the impact of women actually being the computers in […]
Continue readingCCATP #561 – Bart Busschots on PBS 61 of X — Bootstrap Jumbotrons & Badges
In this week’s installment, Bart explains how to create two simple Bootstrap components, the Jumbotron and badges. A Jumbotron is a show-case area at the top of a website’s front page that shouts out the site’s main message and usually has a call to action. Badges are the little bubbles next to titles or within […]
Continue readingCCATP #560 – Robb Dunewood on Android Sideloading for Fortnite
This Chit Chat Across the Pond occurred spontaneously without planning. I was curious about the ramifications of Epic Games’ epic decision to only allow downloading of the insanely popular game Fortnite by side loading on Android. Sideloading is a term that refers to the method by which Android users can acquire apps for their devices […]
Continue readingCCATP #559 – Sal Soghoian & Ray Robertson on Automation
In this episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond I talk to Sal Soghoian and Ray Robertson. Sal was the Product Manager of Automation Technologies at Apple from 1997 to 2016. During his tenure, he was pretty much responsible for all of the automation in the Mac operating system and even the Terminal. Ray Robertson […]
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CCATP #558 – Bart Busschots on PBS 60 of X – Bootstrap & jQuery
In this week’s installment of Programming By Stealth Bart introduces us to Bootstrap Components how we can use jQuery to extend Bootstrap. This is the first baby step into JavaScript with Bootstrap. I’m glad Bart started slowly because my JavaScript muscles are just a bit stiff and dusty. You can find Bart’s tutorial over at […]
Continue readingCCATP #557 – Tom Merritt on Community in Podcasting
This week Tom Merritt, host of the Daily Tech News Show, (and co-host of Cordkillers, Sword & Laser and Current Geek) joins us to talk about the importance of the community to his podcast. We’ll explore how he created such a thriving and participative community, what it means to him, what it would be like […]
Continue readingCCATP #556 – Bart Busschots on PBS 59 of X — More Bootstrap Breakpoints
Bart takes us back to Bootstrap content, now that we know all about breakpoints. He never told us when we were looking at things like margins and float and the display tag that they are also breakpoint-aware, because we didn’t know about breakpoints yet. It’s an easy lesson and it’s great fun to learn more […]
Continue readingCCATP #555 – Bart Busschots on PBS 58 of X – Bootstrap Breakpoints
In this week’s installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots explains Bootstrap breakpoints. Breakpoints allow the designer to define how a web page reacts depending on the size of the viewer’s screen. He explains how through some very simple Bootstrap classes, we can allow a semantic tag to be in the “correct” order for screen […]
Continue readingCCATP #554 – Dr. Maryanne Garry on Persuasion with Facts and Data
Dr. Maryanne Garry, a scientific researcher into memory, memory distortions, fans memories, the myth of repression and its overlap with the laws from the University of Waikato in New Zealand joins us again on Chit Chat Across the Pond. In this interview, Dr. Garry refers to the book “Mistakes were Made (but Not by Me)” […]
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