A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Reminder to self, as I seem to keep forgetting this (even after having blogged about it 3 years ago): you can use currentColor as a color value in CSS. Be it for background-color, border-color, etc. — they all accept currentColor. The value it represents is the current color, so if that one changes so will …
This blogpost is sparked by a conversation with, and blogpost by Joris, a lecturer IMD at Thomas More. Every now and then I have a chat with a colleague lecturer, be it one from the Technical University I teach at (HUB-KAHO) or another TU (Howest, Thomas More, KDG, etc). A recurring theme in our conversations …
PHP 5.6.0, currently in alpha, will hit us any time later this year. Time to take a look and see what’s new. Here’s a selection of features that will affect the way you and I code. New __debugInfo() magic function (rfc) This new magic function allows you to instruct PHP what it should output when …
As a lecturer ICT I have to correct the work our students make. Therefor I collect all solutions and put them in a subfolder-organised structure on disk: per student I create a subfolder and put their solution into that folder(*). $ tree -L 1 . ├── student1 ├── student2 ├── … └── studentN As – …
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Today Vasilis tweeted a link to a very nice (and old, apparently) CSS trick: Here's your monthly reminder that this is an obscure, but very handy feature of CSS overflow. http://t.co/4qNriVlB5y — Vasilis (@vasilis) February 13, 2014 Overflow does some cool things you should know about. Creates Block Formatting Context Clears Floats The second feature …
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About half a year ago I’ve changed how I embed videos here on bram.us. No, I’m not embedding responsively but I’m embedding Vimeo and YouTube clips along with its poster frame (= the image you see before the video starts playing). Doing this will force Facebook and Google+ to show that image – and not …
A trend I’m seeing for the coming year is the rise of Transitional Interfaces on the web. A fine example is the aforementioned Fluidbox, or this interface (extract from the post linked): Sparked by the post linked — which you should read — I started goofing around with CSS transforms and transitions a bit. The …
Having seen a few single-page year in review minisites the past few weeks, it’s clear that Skrollr has become the de facto standard to implement parallax scrolling effects into your websites. The idea behind Skrollr is straightforward: link a target CSS property+value to a given scroll position, via data-* attributes: <div id="example" data-0="width:100%;" data-1500="width:0%;"></div> Skrollr …
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A little Pen I knocked together to demonstrate “CSS Animations triggered on scroll” to some of my students. The key part is the animated class which actually starts the animation: it is only added once the element is in view. Check out this Pen! Note that the event handler is not debounced as we need …
Ever since updating to iOS 7.0.3, my iPhone kept telling me to “Connect to iTunes to use Push Notifications”. Connecting to iTunes did just nothing: the notice kept popping up. Additionally iMessage and FaceTime didn’t work anymore, really annoying. Above that the notice forced some apps in a loop as an app would lose and …
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