I have liked the works of Jacob Gube of Six Revisions and Garrick Cheung of the MooTools Community Team, so when Packt Publishing wanted me to review their book, I accepted.
I hope authors, as well as readers, will gain some insights. Here is my review of MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide.
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I had a great 2-and-a-half year journey with Sun, but my time there is sadly at an end. I was very fortunate to have worked with some very, very smart people. We’ll certainly keep in touch.
I worked on some really cool internal (and therefore not shareable) projects in Java, Jython, and Web languages and platforms. They were generally fun, diverse and challenging.
I’ll now be joining a small, agile team at Return Path. We will make email safer, and (I hope) win the war over spam. Audacious yes. Impossible… I think not.
I wish all my Sun/Oracle counterparts well. Good luck!
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I generally try to avoid using images or Javascript when I can accomplish good presentation with CSS. In this case, I wanted to apply CSS shapes to make a clever speech bubble.
Obtuse triangles are slightly more complicated, since you can only create acute and right triangles with the CSS shapes method linked above. Therefore I created two triangles: a positive (black) right triangle, and then a negative (white) triangle to emulate an obtuse triangle.
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