Minds 101 is a long running traditional (2 years in a row!) in the IT Society, Minds in NUI Maynooth. The aim of Minds 101 is to introduce new members to Minds and how to use some of the … stuff … Minds offers.
29th March 2011 · Development, Minds, web
MWDW – 4.CSS
Similar to the HTML notes, I had created my own CSS notes for the workshop. I still think all the CSS tutorials on w3cSchool are better than anything I could create. You can find the w3cSchool CSS tutorials at:
29th March 2011 · Development, Minds, web
MWDW – 3.HTML
Remember in MWDW – 1.Introduction, HTML was described as the building blocks and foundation for a website. The structure of your HTML needs to be correct and fitting for the layout/design you are trying to achieve. If your HTML is messy you will find it very difficult to write the CSS to style it. HTML also needs to be well structured if you hope to write JavaScript to manipulate your HTML.
During the actual workshop I had created my own notes for HTML. I think now it would be much more beneficial for someone to look at the w3cSchool tutorials instead. If you place the .html files into the “www” folder on your Desktop (from previous posts) you will be able to view them through the web server on your Ubuntu VM.
So there’s no point in me re-inventing the wheel, look at the tutorials for HTML:
28th March 2011 · Development, Minds, Virtualisation, web
MWDW – 2.Development Environment
Introduction Stuff I’m going to cover in this post: VirtualBox Ubuntu Virtual Machine Ubuntu Operating System Background Music Mario Theme Elevator Music VirtualBox VirtualBox was developed by Sun Microsystems, which is now known as Oracle. VirtualBox is a powerful virtualisation software package that allows you to run virtual machines (VM). What is a virtual machine? [...]
26th March 2011 · Development, Minds, web
MWDW – 1.Introduction
These notes are from the first night of MWDW. I will keep it as short as I can because no one really paid attention to this part anways!
A client-server architecture is one in which each computer on a network is either a client or a server.
23rd March 2011 · Development, Minds, web
Minds Web Development Workshop
Going to call it MWDW from now on. All things that aspire to being awesome have acronyms. Since the 1st March I have been doing a website/web application development workshop through Minds in NUI Maynooth.
21st January 2011 · CMS, Development, web
Unify Review
I recently had the problem of providing a CMS for a few websites where the person editing the content might have difficulty grasping the concept of what they were doing. For example if they were using Wordpress. They are presented with this Dashboard and lots of option and links to click on. They think “I just wanted to change the word awesome to uber-awesome … what is going on!?!?”. I have lost them.
Then Shekman suggested I look at an application called Unify created by Unit Interactive.
6th December 2010 · Development, Networking, SSH
Firefox profiles
I recently discovered “profiles” in Firefox. In short, running two Firefox profiles allows you to run two separate instances of Firefox. I have only been using this for a short while and already I have found some really handy benefits for web-site development and normal everyday web-browsing.
Also it’s fun, good fun, good clean fun … washed with quality soap.
2nd December 2010 · Hardware, Servers, UX
Interesting Blogs
This is for two new blogs that will be interesting. They are both friends of mine. I think what will make both blogs really interesting is that their opinions won’t start with “in my almighty years and years of experience”…..
19th September 2010 · Music, RANT, Recording
Something personal…
This is a pure ranting type of blog entry, please forgive. There will be a little bit of hardware and software “nerd me” coming back into it at the end.
