Posts Tagged ‘technical resources’

Technical Links Redux

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Today I have added two new Technical Resources.

First up is W3Schools, a link I’m sure anyone teaching themselves flash has found extremely useful.  It’s a collection of step by step tutorials on how to do things (Not just in flash but in other areas as well).

Second is DevX, Which is similar but tends to focus more on explaining the concepts used in different web languages. It also has sections on programming languages.

Now that links are spoken of, I’d like to bring up the topic of focus and determination again. Seeing as I’ve set myself the goal of having the new version of wordpress installed on my blog by tomorrow night (Along with other goals of mine), I have a lot of work to do ahead of me! Especially since I don’t want to lose the work I’ve put into my current style. SO I shall have to move ahead on making my own style for this blog.

Among the advantages of such, this will allow me to better establish my unique web identity (Much more so then my current variation on the default style). And it’ll be a useful learning experience, particularly with the work I need to do in learning various web technologies. It’ll also allow me to better keep a finger on the pulse of what’s hot and cutting edge on the net, which is always a plus.

Until next time!

Getting Organized!

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Well, todays topic is of special interest to me.  I am extremely disorganized person, and it leaks into almost every aspect of my professional and personal life. So now I’m focusing on learning these skills, logic being that if I’m organized, I’ll have more time for my projects! I found this website, and it told me these three principles of organization:

  1. Get it together.
  2. Break it down.
  3. Track it.

I just downloaded a new app on my phone, I’ll have to see if it works for keeping track of this stuff.

Technical Resources

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

In regards to the class assignment portion of the blog, I’ve posted 4 Technical Resources and 1 Visual Resource. Today I would like to discuss a recent item on the wordpress blog as well as another matter of interest.

First up, this article from October 1st. I looked over the design document detailing how things are supposed to work in the new version.  I have to say, it looks pretty slick, but I’m not sure how much it will affect this blog. Also, I now know that I need to backup any of the style sheets I edited for this site. Don’t want to rewrite all my code, but I think I’m learning more about how style sheets from all that.

Furthermore, while I’m learning a lot, I don’t think I’ve put enough effort or work into my projects for school. While I will be devoting more time to those projects as well as documenting them on here, I feel I also need to take time for myself.

EDIT: Laughing a bit to myself, as it seems I added my Links into the sidebar the hard way.  I’ve just discovered a links tool in the WordPress dashboard. Lesson learned, work smarter instead of harder.