Checkout the new Kids Zone on DZone!
I just posted my first article there titled “Getting Started - Kid Friendly Programming Software“
If you are interested in helping your kids learn programming skills check it out - and even better - contribute something so we can all learn together!
Monthly Archives: January 2008
Programming For Kids - New DZone Site
January 24, 2008 – 11:38 am
Wink - Tutorial and Presentation Software (now for Linux)
January 24, 2008 – 9:11 am
One tool I use occasionally to whip up quick demos and tutorials is Wink. I’ve done several quick tutorials here with Wink showing how to do basic Subversion tasks and have gotten good feedback from everyone who has watched them.
Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials [...]
Forta-fied. Ben Forta Talks Flex/Air
January 24, 2008 – 8:07 am
Last night I attended Ben Forta’s Flex 3 and AIR Pre-release tour in Raleigh, NC. While I don’t do any Flex/Air stuff at work I still wanted to check things out and I’m glad I did. I was really impressed with both technologies and may have to experiment a bit at home with [...]
Microsoft’s Acid (2) Reflux…
January 23, 2008 – 8:32 am
Great post on Slashdot today talking about Microsoft’s announcement there will three ‘modes’ in IE8 - one of them requiring an additional meta tag.
The Slashdot comments are entertaining as always but honestly - did we really think MS could do something right? They screwed up the web years ago and now are [...]
jQuery Validation Plugin Updated/Improved!
January 22, 2008 – 10:32 am
I was updating my application I’m working on to use the latest jQuery Validation plugin and was skimming through the documentation. One neat thing I noticed was this:
Using remote validation to help with captchas
Remote validation to check if the user entered the correct captcha, without forcing him to submit the form first
That is [...]
Ubuntu, NVIDIA and Two Monitors
January 22, 2008 – 9:26 am
Ever since I’ve been using two monitors at work I’ve wanted to setup two monitors at home but finances are tight and I just can’t afford another flat screen. But this weekend I did dust off my daughters old 17″ CRT and tried to get it working with my Dell widescreen. I knew [...]
Review - I Am Legend, The Host, Sunshine
January 20, 2008 – 4:37 pm
Watched a few movies this weekend:
The first - I Am Legend. Ugh. I had recently re-read this book and I wish I had left it there and not seen the movie! Why is it Hollywood can’t leave well enough alone? This movie - much like I Robot only shared the title [...]
Framework / Javascript Library Updates?
January 18, 2008 – 8:34 am
I’m curious how you handle updates to things like their ColdFusion frameworks, Javascript libraries, etc?? I’m using JQuery on several projects now and each project I think is using a different version of JQuery.
Do you include your framework and library files in each project?
Do you keep these files in a ‘core’ directory [...]