There is a continuing need to show the power of CSS. The Zen Garden aims to excite, inspire, and encourage participation. To begin, view some of the existing designs in the list. Clicking on any one will load the style sheet into this very page. The HTML remains the same, the only thing that has changed is the external CSS file. Yes, really.
via CSS Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design.
From: 10 Years
Wow. It’s finally happened. The CSS Zen Garden is 10 years old today.
For readers here I think this is a great primer for what the state of things looks like if you’re not paying super close attention to smartphone cameras, and also the imaging chain at a high level on a mobile device.
Some figures are from of the incredibly useful (never leaves my side in book form or PDF form) Field Guide to Geometrical Optics by John Greivenkamp, a few other are my own or from OmniVision or Wikipedia. I’ve put the slides into a gallery and gone through them pretty much individually, but if you want the PDF version, you can find it here.
via AnandTech – Understanding Camera Optics & Smartphone Camera Trends, A Presentation by Brian Klug.
You’ll find chapters here on Scratch, Python, interfacing, and the command line. There’s a group at Oracle which is currently working with us on a faster Java virtual machine (JVM) for the Pi, and once that work’s done, chapters on Greenfoot and Geogebra will also be made available – we hope that’ll be very soon.
via CAS Raspberry Pi Educational Manual | Raspberry Pi.
The manual itself? It’s brilliant, and we think you’ll find it really useful. Head over to the Pi Store from your Raspberry Pi’s desktop to download a copy directly to your Pi, or, if you don’t have a Raspberry Pi, download it here.
This is a simple guide written in “Learn X the hard way” style, author of which is Zed A. Shaw. The purpose of it is to give you some experience in working with Unix-like system. There are many good UNIX-Like systems out there, for example FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OpenSolaris and even MAC OS X, just to name a few. When deciding which system to use in this guide I chose Linux mainly because it is most popular UNIX-like server operating system, which means what you have much bigger chance encountering it in the wild in comparsion to other UNIX derivatives. And Linux-related skills are relatively easy transferable to other UNIX-likes.
Just show me one learner’s book where error handling is rigorously designed from the start and consequently used through all the examples, without being left out for brevity and readability and as exercise for the reader. If this is applicable from an educational POV, that is another question, but it’s no surprise that error handling is often enough a second or third thought when it should be the very first.
via What’s preferable: Exceptions or explicit error testing? | Ars Technica.
Presentation Patterns aims to apply patterns to the task of creating and delivering presentations and for the most part it succeeds. The format of the book is slightly biased towards those in the software industry as the authors all have software backgrounds. However after reading the introduction which explains the rationale behind patterns in general, as well as the specifics of how they are covered, this book should be useful to anyone interested in improving their presentation skills.
Despite cHTeMeLe’s technical theme, its developers claim you don’t need any web programming experience to play. The game takes web design standards and boils them down into game rules that even children can learn. To help less technical players keep everything straight, the tag cards use syntax highlighting that different parts of code have unique colors — just like an Integrated Developer Environment. No one is going to completely pick up HTML5 purely by playing cHTeMeLe, but it does have some educational value for understanding basic tags and how they fit together.
via cHTeMeLe is a board game about HTML – Video Games Reviews, Cheats | Geek.com.
Since I had one week before my next contract I decided to finish my “cycle of id”. After Doom, Doom Iphone, Quake1, Quake2, Wolfenstein iPhone and Doom3 I decided to read the last codebase I did not review yet:
idTech3 the 3D engine that powers Quake III and Quake Live.
via Quake 3 Source Code Review: Architecture.
I was particularly impressed by :
- The virtual machines system and the associated toolchain that altogether account for 30% of the code released. Under this perspective idTech3 is a mini operating system providing system calls to three processes.
- The elegant network system based on snapshots and memory introspection.
Firstly, take an iPad and restore it to factory settings. We used spare iPads for this but you could equally back up and erase the pupil’s own iPad for the duration of the exams.
Next, install PDF Expert from the App Store.
via Fraser Speirs – Blog – Digital Exams on the iPad.
Interesting.