Category Archives: coding

Librarians and programming revisited

Posted on November 1, 2012 by karin

Recently, Peter Murray wrote on The Security Implications of Teaching Librarians to Program, and I agree with both the potential problems and his solutions. I’d add that I would never want to do any programming on a server that contained student … Continue reading →

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Library day, er, week, in the life.

Posted on July 29, 2011 by karin

I wanted to participate in Library Day in the Life this year even though I am not, technically, a librarian. So, um, I am. This week was a weird one- I had very few meetings and could concentrate mostly on … Continue reading →

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CSS teaching and wrapping block elements with an a tag

Posted on March 4, 2011 by karin

Today I taught a graduate digital history class about CSS. I only had an hour, and there was no projector in the room, so I put together a tutorial to walk through how to take a list from normal looking … Continue reading →

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Some thoughts on Less CSS

Posted on September 25, 2010 by karin

First – I will clarify that this post is about the Less CSS method of writing CSS (writing in another format and then compiling to CSS, either through Ruby or Javascript) rather than the Less CSS framework. It’s confusing that … Continue reading →

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