tatiyants.com geek humor and other drivel about me
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Prove Me Right

Do you frequently find yourself arguing with people who are more informed and/or smarter than you? Prove Me Right’s unique service can help!

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Getting DRY With Sass

Sass is a language / framework which compiles down to CSS. The thing I like most about Sass is how it helps you apply the DRY principle to your style sheets. If you use it well, you can drastically cut down “copy-and-paste” code and actually get reasonably maintainable CSS to work with.

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Code Review Gone Bad

“Hi Mike, I just wanted to once again apologize for yesterday’s code review. I said and did some things I’m not very proud of…”

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XML Databases

JSON-oriented document stores like Mongo and Couch have really become the darlings of the web application crowd. Of course, JSON (or BSON) isn’t the only game in town. When it comes to document store formats, the other white meat if you will is XML.

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How to Use WordPress Custom Post Types to Add Events to Your Site

One of the more interesting (and useful) features in WordPress is custom post types. As the name suggests, WordPress allows you to define your own post types which are treated just like existing ones (i.e. Posts and Pages).

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How to Get IE8 to Support HTML5 Tags and Web Fonts

Though support for modern standards is limited in IE8, it’s not impossible. Here’s how to add support for HTML5 elements and web fonts.

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How to Debug in IE on a Mac

Here’s how to configure a Mac to debug web sites in IE

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Leaving Solution Land

Most devs are naturally inclined to start finding solutions as soon as we hear a problem stated. Yet no matter how satisfying it may be to immediately board the bus to Solution Land, it is always worth it to take a moment and ask ourselves a simple question: “Do I actually understand the problem?”.

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Building vs. Learning on Agile Teams

Though agile methodologies are optimized for delivery, sometimes a different approach is required. Hypothesis testing from the Lean Startup movement gives us such an approach.

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You Can Have My Link Juice

I’ve been looking into SEO recently and ran into a interesting nugget of functionality called rel=”nofollow”. Though I’ve heard about it before, I never fully appreciated its implications until now.

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Things I Wish I Knew as a Comp Sci Student

I would guess that most CS students don’t know what they need to pay attention to. After all, there are millions of ideas competing for their attention and they all seem equally important. But they’re not.

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