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Opening ceremonies
Right now we are educating 120,000 engineers. We need to double that. Thomas Farris, Dean of Rutgers School of Engineering referencing a challenge from President Barack Obama
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Quote of the Day #199
A journey of a thousand robots begins with one hex nut. Which, unfortunately I just lost.
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Our Site is Mobile
No mobile version necessary with the new fad of responsive design. Resize your browser and it’ll still look awesome in your window. You know you want to. 🙂
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Quote of the Day #198
In a video project, DON’T. DELETE. ANYTHING. Especially not recordings of Jerry [our captain]. Hizal, A/V Captain
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We Switched to WordPress Too
One of the biggest changes we made to the website this year is that we switched to WordPress. Forget the fact that it feels mainstream and that every time I put in a bad line of code it throws up. It’s made my life so much easier.
What happened B.W. (Before WordPress) was that the website was a bunch of HTML files made in Dreamweaver, a program that often comes with Photoshop in Adobe’s Creative Suite. (Unfortunately.) None of the pages laughed. None of them cried. None of them went outside.
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Quote of the Day #197
John F. Kennedy told us to put a man on the moon. Mr. Leicht told us to put a robot on the playing field. Nick, a mechanical guy
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Does anyone really pass the CSS validator?
So we have this lovely criterion on the Website Award rubric: How much care was taken when designing the website with regards to web standards such as valid HTML and CSS? (i.e. Does the site pass the W3C markup validation service http://validator.w3.org/) And a couple of weeks ago we were trying to get our site to validate. Our HTML passed without a hitch, but our CSS did not. But all was not lost. What if we Read more