April 2005 Entries
This link is one I should start putting up for my students—Teach Yourself To Program in Ten Years. Unfortunately, companies think that one week of training will make their people developers. I always preface my courses that we are introducing syntax and features, but they are not necessarily best put together in the prescribed method. This goes back to a post I made back in November about viral coding. It’s cool to do the demos to show the point, but is it really the best way to do it—probably...
I’ve had this for a while, but today I was cleaning out my bookmarks folder and came across this. Personally, I find it very cool that you can see all these newspapers—interesting to see what’s currently impacting the world.
No cubicles. I am sitting on my front porch enjoying the background music of the birds and gentle breeze. I never got to do this working for an employer! Employers—have a meeting outside sometime, it will change the way your employees look at the rest of the day.
Recently (March 17, I believe) I attended a User Group Meeting in Columbus and watched a presentation on Web standards. Probably the thing that caught my eye first was dumping tables in favor of CSS. Beyond that, I was thoroughly impressed with the Firefox browser that Brian Prince was using. OK, so I had downloaded it before, but had never really given it a test drive. After his presentation, my subsequent install of Firefox, and using CSS/Firefox (with the WebDeveloper plugin) I’m sold. I’ve...