Originally I was going to compare Codepen to Glitch, but then I discovered a feature of Codepen that I didn’t realize was there and have to re-evaluate my original comparison. So today … it’s just focused on glitch.com. But I’m getting ahead of myself. What’s the problem to be solved? Namely web hosting. Server husbandry […]
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NC #739 Retrobatch, AirFly, GTA Car Kit, Pixelmator Photo, Glitch.com, Photo Processing On the Go
Allister Jenks is standing in this week for a vacationing Allison and Steve, with the help of a couple of NosillaCastaways.
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CCATP #600 — PBS Supplemental — Dorothy Rendon on the PBS Index
In the very first Programming By Stealth supplemental episode, I interview Dorothy Rendon, the programmer behind the PBS Index. If you haven’t seen it before, it’s an index that Dorothy has created for the Programming By Stealth students to helpt them find key topics in Bart Busschots’s fabulous tutorial shownotes. We’ll first get a little […]
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In Chit Chat Across the Pond we are finally back to a Programming By Stealth episode. In this installment, Bart teaches us how to create navigation bars in Bootstrap. We learn how to make them collapse and expand to different device screen sizes and how to style them to look nice. We learned how to […]
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Chit Chat Across the Pond this week was Programming By Stealth installment 65 of X. This time Bart takes us through Bootstrap Input Groups. These are really cool. Think about a form that has information you have to fill in, but you’re never sure what they’re asking for. If they ask for money, what currency […]
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This week in Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots and I spend a fair amount of time going over the homework challenge from PBS 62. The nuances combined with some refresher on how the pieces fit together was something I really needed so hopefully I wasn’t alone. The new part of the episode is dedicated to […]
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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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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 […]
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CCATP #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 […]
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Bart has been teaching you and me for many years now. Between his Taming the Terminal series and now his Programming By Stealth series, he’s attempted to cram vast amounts of knowledge into our brains. My father used to say that children are like wine bottles – you should pour as much information into them […]
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