the idea behind this series of tutorials is to form a guide, an online book for all to see. its not all fun and games, we will be starting the right way with the theory. theres too many tutorials and books in the world that just start you off on writing code in an easy to learn language, they rush you through the basics and forget to teach you the art. this is pretty bad for you as a wannabe programmer, programming is an art / discipline that doesnt follow strict guidelines, theres no real right or wrong, once you know the art of programming any language becomes easy to learn (with the exception of binary) and all that really changes is the framework that the language may offer.
update: i should mention this is the first version of the text, it still needs to be changed to suit beginners but the basic outline is there.
take me to the rest of back to the basics - part #1
got my nike+ the other day, hoping it will help me improve my running since it keeps all my stats and such. the one thing that is annoying is the flash widgets, so im tempted to write a wordpress widget for displaying the data from nike+ then i can style with it with css.
was thinking about writing up a series of programming tutorials, to turn n00bz into programmers and good ones at that. most tutorials around the net, start you off on a simple language like java, really its best to start on a more low level language like C and C++ or assembly if your feeling brave. then when you happily understand the fundamentals of programming the different languages become easier to use and all that really becomes a pain is the different framework names.
again completely changing subjects; shortly i should have subversion repositories for firemint and expose. for other developers that wish to contribute, or developers that prefer to update via subversion and have the bleeding edge builds.
any how, off to see dark knight
its been awhile i know, im really sorry. but firemint will be returning shortly, a rewrite is in order but it will be back!
for those of you who are clueless, firemint is a firefox extension that displays statistics from your mint installation!
coming sooooon
save the developers have started working towards my dream, the ending of internet explorer 6. they offer a simple script to include in the <head> of a html file. i decided to make things a little simpler for wordpress users by releasing a small (18 lines - mainly comments and white space) plugin. all the plugin does is add the script tag into the <head> of your wordpress blog!
how to install:
download the zip file below, extract the zip. upload the ’savethedevelopers’ directory to the ‘plugins’ directory inside the ‘wp-content’ in your wordpress installation directory on your web server. ummm thats a mouthful.
download plugin
if anyone has any problems, just leave a comment. i’ve tested the plugin on wordpress 2.3 and 2.5
update: made a slight modification, so the say.no.to.ie.6.js is in the plugin rather than linking to savethedevelopers.org
spread the word, digg?
help save the developers!!
last night i spent some time making a plugin for wordpress, basically it uses the jquery lightbox plugin and adds extra functionality to it by detecting flickr images, and making them work in a lightbox automatically. this means i dont need to specify rel=”lightbox” on the actual link, and i also don’t need to specify the image to display in the lightbox, as the javascript works out the image to load (from the thumbnail being displayed).
my plan is to release the plugin, but first im going to make some adjustments so it doesnt need the jquery lightbox plugin (as the code i’ve used has been modified)
expect a release within a few days
