An Interview Question from LI

My friend is a smart bastard, and he’s been kind enough to give me some ideas for exercises to prepare for interviews (see infinite scroll). Here is another question he tossed over, this time having to do with object manipulation.

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Making This Thing Prettier

I wanted to make use of this template's nicer "featured posts" layout to get some more color and pop, but making liquid do what I want was an ugly mess. Here's how I did it.

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Answering FEE Interview Questions - Part 2: HTML

Welcome to part 2 in my series of inarticulate ramblings where I’m working through a worthy collection of potential interview questions. In part 1 I worked through some general questions about security, accessibility and development style. Today’s questions will be more targeted to HTML.

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Posted under: HTML

Answering FEE Interview Questions

The main impetus behind setting this site up was to get my head back to thinking about the web as more than an eternal consumption engine. I’m hoping to get back into tech, and to do so I will have to pass roughly 97 years of tech interviews, a daunting task even when you’ve been neck deep in this stuff everyday. I’ve been gone for 3 years, so I really have some work to do.

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Remembering Stuff I Used to Know

As I read through the docs for Jekyll and Bootstrap, I’m naturally going off on tangents and reading more about things that I haven’t touched in a while and forgotten. While none of what I’m writing is groundbreaking stuff, it’s good to read about it and be reminded of their intended uses and limitations.

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Step 3: Profit

I managed to install Jekyll without a problem. Following their docs made it a piece of cake to get going. The functionality and ability to customize your setup is really impressive and goes far beyond anything I will likely do with it.

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This thing I made

I’ve been out of tech for a few years now, working on a dream of mine to make booze professionally. We’ve had some success with our spirits, and in particular, seeing the reception of our Sea Gin and Tradewinds brandy by bartenders has been extremely rewarding.

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