JFrog launches Artifactory, the world’s first high-availability binary repository manager with capabilities to solve all your DevOps redundancy issues.  

Most new Ph.D.s in science are encouraged to pursue tenure-track faculty positions. Dr. Kenneth Gibbs felt pressured to follow that path, but instead he decided to explore a career in science policy in order to more directly impact society.

Dr. Gibbs recounts his professional journey and shares advice for future scientists in an essay in Science Magazine, entitled “Planning a Career in Today’s Landscape.” As a member of the 13th Meyerhoff cohort, Dr. Gibbs majored in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He then completed a Ph.D. in Immunology at Stanford.

Currently, Dr. Gibbs is a part of the Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program (CPFP) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), while finishing a Master’s Degree in Public Health from Johns Hopkins.

Larry Hogan, the leader of watchdog group Change Maryland and former appointments secretary under Gov. Robert Ehrlich, kicked off his campaign in the Republican primary for governor on Wednesday.

Public Policy Professor and Chair Donald Norris was interviewed for an article in The Washington Post about Hogan’s announcement. He said whoever the winner of the Republican primary is faces an uphill battle unless a serious mistake is committed by the Democratic candidate.

“In a statewide race in Maryland, a good Democrat running a good campaign beats a good Republican running a good campaign every time,” Norris said.

You can read the full article in The Washington Post here.

On the heels of Håkon Wium Lie's condemning of CSS regions, Sara Soueidan writes about all their benefits. Having read both now carefully, I think Hakon is wrong on each point and CSS regions are quite useful.

Paramount to the discussion:

CSS Regions are not a layout feature — they're a fragmentation feature

Whatever any of us think, Blink is going to yank out early support for regions, mainly citing performance reasons. Weird to me: why was this reported on big sites with negative "dump" and "rejects" headlines?

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CSS Regions Matter is a post from CSS-Tricks

I'm of the opinion that you probably usually do need jQuery (I explain why many times in my latest course on it).

But I'm also of the opinion that reference guides like this a super cool and useful for those of us who came into the world of JavaScript through jQuery. I'll probably reference this thing a zillion times.

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You Might Not Need jQuery is a post from CSS-Tricks

If you need to change the styles of some elements using jQuery, you might use .css(), but that applies inline styles and we generally don't like that. You could add/remove/change a class name to control the style, which is better, but then still only works on matching elements that are currently in the DOM.

This neat mini jQuery plugin by Danny Povolotski actually injects real CSS on the page so all (even future) matching elements get that style. Kinda like event delegation for styles.

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veinjs is a post from CSS-Tricks

American Studies Assistant Professor Nicole King and Folklorist in Residence Michelle Stefano are starting a series of essays for the “City Folk” section of City Paper. They will be writing about interesting people they encounter during their travels around Baltimore.

The first essay in the series titled “Different Presence” was published on January 29. King and Stefano write about Robert Williams, who stands on the corner of Hollins Street and South Arlington Avenue and runs “New Day” gallery which houses a collection of African masks, sculptures and other collectibles. The essay looks at William’s motivation for running the gallery and examines his impact on the neighborhood and community. It also looks ahead to his future plans:

[Williams] is in the early stages of planning the African World Museum and Gallery, which would provide the space to delve deeper into the cultures and histories represented within his collection. While he currently lacks the funding, he certainly has the objects, the knowledge, and the trust of many in the community. He even has a space in mind: the old Steadman Station firehouse at East Read and North Calvert. With 14 years on the corner seeing the street life of Hollins Market, Williams is ready to come inside.

You can read the full essay in City Paper here.