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Internet finds #11

CSS

1. CSS Cascading and Inheritance Level 3
2. CSS: Everything is global and how to deal with it
3. Google forks WebKit with new Blink rendering engine for Chrome and Opera
4. Flexbox syntax for IE 10

Responsive design

1. Media Queries are a Hack
2. Logical Breakpoints For Your Responsive Design

Design

1. Negative Space is an Important Design Tool: Here’s Why

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Boost your learning with positive experiences

Every now and then I decide to learn something new. It might be a technique related to what I do in my everyday job, a recipe in kitchen or something totally beyond my usual scope of activities. While trying (and sometimes failing) to learn I realized the following:

1. first few encounters with new stuff are crucial for your motivation to continue
2. picking up low hanging fruit has a very important role in your perception of potential success or failure
3. both things are closely related

I always kinda sucked at higher math. I was quite ok with simple one, but I lost the track when I was 16. Why it was so? When I started to study complicated mathematics, I had some success in solving the introductory stuff, but anything beyond Math 101 was a mystery. The problem was, that we didn't stop at that first chapter for everybody (in this case me) to catch up. Grades went from worse to worst as my knowledge shrunk and my frustration and general bad experience grew. This became a creation circle for new member of math-illiterate-club.

More than a year ago I got myself a guitar. A nice Dreadnaught by Takamine. I started to learn some very basic stuff. Again, the first two chapters of video course were good na simple and I enjoyed every second of it. Untill we hit first barre chord F. I know there are harder chords that F, but since I really lacked the finger strength I could never get it sound right. So I was left with two options: I could drill the F till I know how to play it and being frustrated most of the time or I could try to find songs without F to play and have fun.

Getting rid of the orange highlight in Ubuntu

Ubuntu has quite polished base themes provided for Gnome or Unity. The only problem I have is that after a while, the orange highlight color gets a little on my nerves. Fortunately, thanks to dconf-editor (sudo apt-get install dconf-tools) you can change it and here is how:

1. Open dconf-editor
2. Navigate to path: org -> gnome -> desktop -> interface
3. Find the line "gtk-color-scheme"
4. Add this string: bg_color:#f0f1f2;selected_bg_color:#60A4FC
5. Hit enter

Notes: color #60A4FC (sky-azure-ish blue) will be the base color for you highlight. Change this value to whatever you want.

Surce: http://antecblue.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/replace-the-orange-color-in-ubuntu-11-10-active-color/

Rory Sutherland: Perspective is everything [video]

An interesting idea of solving problems from a rather psychological than mechanical point of view.

SMURF: SMACSS based approach to Rails frontend development [video]

Source: Taking Sass to the Next Level with SMURF and @extend