Tech People You Should Know
What's Beneath
Javascript, Jquery, and CSS
Hacks and Solutions
Advanced Toolkit
100
He's the new guy we go to for help with Akamai.
Who is Lenny Capellan?
100
Before all browsers supported transparent PNG's (do they?), this proprietary image format was the only way to have a clear image.
What is the Compuserve GIF?
100
You can use javaScript to manipulate this, which is the browser's internal representation of everything on a web page.
What is the DOM (Document Object Model)?
100
Adding or changing a line on this operating system file can cause your browser to take you to different websites.
What is the HOSTS file?
100
Any changes to skin.properties won't be active until you go into Toolkit and do this.
What is click "publish"?
200
This SAVVIS migration veteran handles Crowd logins and manages the Techwiki.
Who is Chris Handy?
200
In CSS, most elements are transparent by default. But, to set transparency manually, you'll need to change this property.
What is background-color?
200
This handy CSS layout model is not supported by IE6.
What is the box model?
200
This file, located in the root of a webserver, will grant access to any SWF that wants to pull in data.
What is crossdomain.xml?
200
Adding this handy string to the end of a Toolkit URL will allow you to view a form, even when the current date doesn't fall into the span of the sweeps.
What is "unlock=true" or "changecurrentdate=true&date={some date within the range}"
300
This project manager, whose name does *not* rhyme with Frankenstein, oversees Brides.com and Epicurious.
Who is Dave Klopfenstein?
300
It's the color IE uses when it doesn't know what to do with a transparent image.
What is blue?
300
It's the symbol jQuery requires to identify an ID (or a trending Twitter topic).
What is a hash symbol?
300
Facebook recently changed their guidelines for apps, requiring all apps to be accessed via this internet protocol.
What is HTTPS?
300
Editing the messages.properties file will allow a developer to edit these messages.
What are error messages?
400
Known by some as the social media expert of tech, this fellow programmed the editorial back-end for the Social Sidekick.
Who is Walter Sze?
400
Setting this flash variable when embedding it in HTML will solve a lot of layering issues, as well as transparency.
What is wmode?
400
In object-oriented javaScript, this usually doesn't represent a large sum of money, but it is the term for a getting properties and methods from a parent.
What is inheritance?
400
DAILY DOUBLE!
When you can't use an iFrame, flex your programming biceps by using this handy library. With it, your server-side script can load a webpage or data stream from another webserver.
400
It's what COPPA stands for.
What is The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998?
500
This style.com site lead has some of the highest QA standards in the company.
Who is Mike O’Brien?
500
This property of an iframe, which allows for transparency, is considered invalid markup. Unfortunately, without it, your pages look like s**t in Internet Explorer.
What is allowtransparency?
500
Using its Object Notation is the only way to beat this limitation of javaScript. Pee-rrific!
What is cross-domain security or same origin policy?
500
Adding this file to a directory on a server can change the way Apache processes your URL.
What is an .htaccess file?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!
Editing these two similarily named files will format an email that gets sent every time an entry (often with a media upload) is collected.