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Comment on Some thoughts on Less CSS by Current Design Process for Digital Humanities | nirak.net

Current Design Process for Digital Humanities | nirak.net — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:27:58 +0000

[...] I wrote about Less CSS previously, I don’t use it anymore. It was fun to play with, but I felt like I was trying to [...]

Comment on Why every Library Science student should learn programming by Tech Skills for New Librarians & Me (seeking advice) – Library Hat

Tech Skills for New Librarians & Me (seeking advice) – Library Hat — Sat, 07 May 2011 00:07:23 +0000

[...] Why Every Library Science Student Should Learn Programming. Nirak.net. December 12, 2009. http://nirak.net/2008/12/why-every-library-science-student-should-learn-programming/. (See also the comments to this post : Bohyun Kim, “Why Not Grow Coders from the Inside of [...]

Comment on CSS teaching and wrapping block elements with an a tag by Jeremy Boggs

Jeremy Boggs — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:29:01 +0000

Excellent! Will dig into this a bit more. Do you see any advantage to putting the outside the

, as far as styling horizontal navigation is concerned?

And, looking at your CSS, it seems that the underline is on the links in Example 10 because you’re using ‘.example10 li a’ as your CSS selector. Instead it should be ‘.example10 a’, since the ‘a’ is not a descendant of the ‘li’.

Comment on Going to SXSW by Mom

Mom — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 04:47:17 +0000

Have fun! Can’t wait to hear all about it.

Comment on Going to SXSW by amy

amy — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 04:35:21 +0000

i am so jealous – have a GREAT time!

Comment on Accessibility and Usability by Universal Design, Usability, and Accessibility - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:36:48 +0000

[...] “Accessibility and Usability,” by Karin Dalziel (Nirak.net October 27, 2009) Accessibility and usability are hot keywords right now, and usability testing is a hot new money making venture. What one doesn’t often hear is that much of what makes a website usable and accessible is pretty simple, and easy enough to implement if you know how. [...]

Comment on Accessibility and Usability by Academic Resources and Universal Design - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:28:59 +0000

[...] “Accessibility and Usability,” a series of posts by Karin Dalziel (@nirak, on Twitter) [...]

Comment on Ada Lovelace Day – honoring my mom by karin

karin — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:12:02 +0000

Mom – I tweeted you about it, but I guess you don’t check your twitter much anymore! Bad techno-mom!

Comment on Ada Lovelace Day – honoring my mom by Mom

Mom — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:49:19 +0000

Just read this, Karin didn’t even mention it to me. I beg to differ on the knowledge of technology, Karin is far more informed than I am. I do try to keep up though! Still waiting to get my IPad 3G. Thanks, Karin! I love you.

Comment on Ada Lovelace Day – honoring my mom by Brian

Brian — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 06:54:41 +0000

My Grandma is the one that made computers available to me when I was young. She has been hacking on them since she was writing her own programs to run on monolithic machines at Boeing.

Cheers to women in technology!