October 27, 2008 by Graeme
As can be seen in my sidebar, I have a twitter account and usually send several “tweets” each day. When I first started using Twitter I had much less followers and wasn’t following as many people as I am now, and I was happy with that as I was still working out what the service was and it’s uses. These days however, I’m following more people and having more conversations and it has proven useful in the past when asking questions and receiving advice both from people I follow and from others. However, I’ve noticed that some people I’ve had to stop following because of the sheer volume of their tweets has made all the other ones get lost in the crowd.
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October 9, 2008 by Graeme
Well I’m now into my fourth week here in Dundee, and I suppose now would be a good time to document the experience and my thoughts so far on University life.
I’ve now almost had three weeks of teaching and overall things are going well so far I think with all four of my modules this term. The four modules are:
Programming
Personal Web Pages
Web Fundamentals
Personal Study Skills
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September 21, 2008 by Graeme
Yesterday I visited the local Software Freedom Day event here in Dundee, and I was impressed with what was available. I think that the whole web industry is moving towards open source software, and went along to see what things were on offer. We all know that the biggest and most common instance of open source software within the internet industry is Mozilla Firefox, but there is so much other items of software available.
It was interesting to see the wide range of software packages available, which ranged from graphics packages to office software and everything in between. The most interesting outcome of the day for me was when I received a Linux Ubuntu disk, as I’ve very little experience of that particular operating system. I’ve seen people use it and have obviously read about it over the years but I’ve little personal experience. One technique I picked up was to install it using a Virtual Box, which enables the new system to be installed on a machine virtually so that it doesn’t affect the original operating system. This seems like a good way of trying out Linux knowing that I can always revert back without too much risk.
What do the current Linux users think? Should I jump over from Windows?
September 15, 2008 by admin
It is now over seven years since the 6th version of Microsoft’s Web Browser was launched, and it is still popular today for some reason, although this is mainly with large organisations and some education centres. With the recent release of Firefox 3 it is plain to see how far browsers have progressed in the past seven years, and with Google now joining the party with their Chrome release there is much to be said for the browser business today.
As any web developer will know, trying to create aesthetically pleasing sites which fit into all these browsers is a challenge, with Internet Explorer 6 being the worst of the lot due to the way that it handles code and styles. As a beginner, I’ve had little experience of altering a site specifically in order to suit Internet Explorer 6 (lucky me!). Large organisations are often the last to change software due to perceived security issues but I feel that the time has come for us to help them along by refusing to cater for IE 6 users anymore, and if the majority of developers do likewise then slowly but surely Internet Explorer 6’s market share will begin to drop completely.
Do you support Internet Explorer 6?
September 13, 2008 by admin
Well as promised a few weeks ago, I have completed the new design of the site. It is a bit different from the previous “working desk” design, but I hope that you like it. There will no doubt be a few tweaks still to do, and as we all know everything we do in in Web Design and Development is a work in progress, so feel free to make suggestions.
The new design co-incides with my starting University and I will be posting a lot more often as I have let that slip recently with all that has been happening.
Drupal
Wordpress
MacBook Pro
Photoshop CS3