Kartika Angkawijaya
A blogger, an Apple fan, a photography enthusiast, a movie lover, a web developer
Lessons about Personal Strengths from Cal Ripken, Jr. Baseball legend Cal Ripken, Jr., spoke last week-end at the Glazer-Kennedy InfoSummit in Baltimore.
What an amazing life story he shared! I was lucky enough to get this photo with him after his talk. Cal’s 21-year career with the Baltimore Orioles included playing 2,632 consecutive games. That’s nearly 17 straight years without missing a game. An astonishing feat. What kind of person does it take to achieve that kind of record? Many rookies asked Cal that same question in his later years. Cal covered these eight traits in his presentation to our group and illustrated them with fascinating stories from his career.
Be consistent. Build physical and mental strength. Cal’s talk resonated with me at a deep level because the traits he described are exactly the kinds of personal strengths we’re helping people develop with our new online self-development service, ProStar Coach. Cal’s last slide summarized his approach to baseball and life. How to Build a Successful Blog: Must Have Resources. If you’re looking for resources to take your blog to help you create a successful blog – you’re in the right place.
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Help. HTML5 fundamentals, Part 3: The power of HTML5 APIs. So, what is an API?
An application programming interface is a collection of programming instructions and standards for accessing a software application. With an API, you can design products powered by the service the API provides. HTML5 has several new APIs. For example: A 2D drawing API used with the new canvas element for rendering graphs or other visual images An API caching mechanism that supports offline web applicationsAn API for playing video and audio used with the new video and audio elements A history API that makes the browsing history accessible and allows pages to add to it A drag-and-drop API to use with the draggable attribute An editing API to use with the contenteditable attribute Client-side storage with JavaScript APIs for key-value pairs and also embedded SQL databases This article concentrates on two APIs: Geolocation and Web Worker.
Back to top Business is everywhere: Geolocation You use the Geolocation API to determine and share geographical positions. Figure 1. <!