Archive for June, 2008
good women developers…rare because women can’t be specialists?
Friday, June 20th, 2008
Recently I received an article from the wall street journal entitled, “Men write code from mars, women write more helpful code from venus“, and as girl surrounded by quite a few male developers, I forwarded it to the dev team with some random comment about “Girls are great developers” and that they better be ready for it, because I had already commented the entire code base out with kisses. Meg, our other girl developer, said, “Girls are just better in general!” and we were all laughing, when Rob, another developer piped in, “Boys are better in specific!” to further laughs.
But he continued, “Girls aren’t good at specializing. Genetically that’s just the way it is. Scientific studies have proven it.”
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learning to spraypaint freehand
Sunday, June 15th, 2008
For some reason or another, I’ve decided to learn how to spray paint. Obviously, I really should have taken this up in my rebellious teenage years. That way I wouldn’t have to compare my stuff to a blindfolded 4-year old’s. This weekend I spent some time learning about shading and shadowing, and here’s my process. I’m not exactly proud of this work (she looks kind of weirdly proportioned) but it really taught me a lot about how spray paint works, and what I can and can’t do with it (yet!). Luckily I took a picture at every phase of the works.
Detecting ie6 in jsps (jstl) to change png to gif
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
I’m just learning how to integrate css into jsps, but I’m lucky enough to have people around to help me out! As a designer, I want to make sure browsers degrade as gracefully as possible, and so I asked Dan, one of our developers, how you would replace png images for map markers into gifs for ie 6. Usually I would just declare this in the css, but here we were appending a number at the end of each image and then appending the .png. Looking online didn’t uncover any “beautiful” solutions (as Dan would say).
