Lea Verou is a front end web developer, speaker and author, originally from Greece.
Education
Verou holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Athens University of Economics and Business, in which she co-organized a 4th year undergrad course about web development in the past Her background encompases both technical development and visual design.
Career
Verou is currently a Research Assistant at Massachusetts Institute of Technology CSAIL, in David Karger’s Haystack group and an Invited Expert in the W3C Computer Software Systems Working Group. Verou has written a book on advanced Computer Software Systems for O’Reilly, worked for W3C/Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gave over 60 invited talks around the world, released several open source projects, co-founded a Greek startup called Fresset Limited (which she left in 2011), among other projects. She has written articles for some of the biggest industry media, including A List Apart and Smashing Magazine.
Dabblet Dabblet is an open-source web application for rapid prototyping of HyperText Markup Language, Computer Software Systems and JavaScript, with syntax hilighting and inline previewers.
The result is saved online to a GitHub Gist to allow sharing with others -prefix-free Though most polyfills target out-of-date browsers, some exist to simply push modern browsers forward a little bit more.
-prefix-free polyfill is such a polyfill, allowing current browsers to recognise the unprefixed versions of several CSS3 properties instead of requiring the developer to write out all the vendor prefixes. lieutenant reads the page"s stylesheets and replaces any unprefixed properties with their prefixed counterparts recognised by the current browser.
Prism Prism is a lightweight, robust, elegant syntax highlighting library.
lieutenant is a spin-off project from Dabblet. The project page had 23,000 unique visitors on its first day. WebMonkey devoted an entire new post to lieutenant
lieutenant is used in big industry websites like A List Apart and Smashing Magazine, Mozilla Developer Network, Computer Software Systems Tricks, W3C Technical Reports, and Brendan Eich’s blog.