I'm in the same boat (programmer never did hardware).
I just started this book and am having a blast:
Making Things Talk
Although I got sidetracked by this great site:
Lady Ada which sells a kit you can assemble.
Just my experience, but they were all a little lacking (although I admit I'm a novice in AJAX).
Rico's newsgroup was great; I got (friendly) answers within hours, but I'm not exaggerating when I say the documentation was the worst I've ever seen. If I had more time to play around, I would have stuck it out and helped (their community is cool), but I'm on the clock and need simple working examples.
I briefly tried Atlas and was impressed with ease of use, but got hung up with bugs (it's beta, but will be a good tool when it's ready).
Dojo had good starter documentation. I spent a while trying to figure out something poorly documented and figured I'd write a brief tutorial, but was surpirsed they have a "closed" Wiki. After some digging, it suggested dropping the developers a line to get an account, but wasn't able to find the address. I gave up. I can see why their documentation is so spotty, since they ignore what a great tool a Wiki could be. The psuedo-Wiki gaps are somewhat filled by a pretty good newsgroup though.
YMMV, but Dojo was the best of the tools I worked with.
Yes there is and it covers exactly this. I was an officer in Iraq last year and I recall reading a memo to all of my soldiers regarding posting/emailing/blogging anything of this nature. It was theatre-wide and I believe it was Pentagon directed (could be wrong on that).
I don't remember it exactly, but it covered pictures/videos of US or enemy casualties, US vehicles, bases or anything to reveal techniques and procedures. I'll try and dig it up.
Richard Gere for curing prostate cancer!
*hides in shame*
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Finally a slashdot article I can comment on knowledgably.
I'm an officer in the US Army and on a casual glance through the file list there's nothing on there that's classified. You can look up most of these manuals on google.
Here's a site that lists a couple:
US Army Fields Manuals
Not hugely helpful unless you have training and equipment, but I guess if I were a (bored) terrorist, I'd read em.
Another one bites the dust
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I used this book as my intro to PHP (I've done several other languages). Overall the book was good, but I had some problems:
1) I loved the objected oriented aspects, but was disheartened to learn most of that code only applies to the latest PHP, which isn't deployed in most ISPs.
2) The index is terrible. Thank God the online docs are good. I've rarely been able to use the book as a reference.
3) I'm probably being dense, but I had trouble finding the sample code online. I expected it on Prentice Hall's website or at least an obvious link. (It's on the author's site)
I'm whining, but I really did like this book and would still recommend it.
I went in ready to hate it based on what other nerds had said, but I was hooked and I AM one of those dweebs who was really into the original series.
They kept just enough continuity with the original series that it felt familiar. BG had a lot to draw from and I thought they took some of the best stuff.
I did think Starbuck's characted could have been better. Maybe because the orignal guy just played it so well. The sexual tension between Starbuck and Apollo will certainly be less funny.
As for the series: Make it so! (Yeah, I know)
Recently, I downloaded it and it seems to have reverted to a buggy command line utlity and all the ROMs are on crappy warez sites that usually don't have anything. Anybody keep the old version around?
One of the other comments about drawing with javascript got me curious. Drawing bar charts is easy, just stretch gifs and presto.
However, I wanted to do pie charts and found this interesting article.. Probably wouldn't be too hard to throw some trig at it and expand it either.
You make some great points. I'm probably identifying myself as an idiot, but I was running a proxy which was also an open relay (I didn't know). My modem was deactivaed within an hour and I got yelled at. My own damn fault and installed a Linux firewall/router that weekend.
The interesting thing will be when we can throw some good pattern recognition software, then cut out the distribution system. Then you have a cheap and marginally effective deterrent.
I can see these going up everywhere in a decade or 2.
When I tried w/ Netscape 4.76, I go this message:
Wired News content is accessible to all versions of every browser. However, this browser may not support basic Web standards, preventing the display of
our site's design details.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of CSS and I do use it, but I can't tell people with older browsers to go take a hike, and I don't have time to code multiple pages (like Wired is apparently doing.)
Some news sites still use tables, font tags and single pixel GIFs, which can be inefficient. Switching to high-level CSS selectors and CSS layout control can make a big difference in size and speed.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this cut out a lot of legacy browsers? I'm also not sure about ADA compliance w/ this methodology. I imaging news sites would want to appeal to the widest possible audience.
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I'm in the same boat (programmer never did hardware). I just started this book and am having a blast: Making Things Talk Although I got sidetracked by this great site: Lady Ada which sells a kit you can assemble.
Just my experience, but they were all a little lacking (although I admit I'm a novice in AJAX).
Rico's newsgroup was great; I got (friendly) answers within hours, but I'm not exaggerating when I say the documentation was the worst I've ever seen. If I had more time to play around, I would have stuck it out and helped (their community is cool), but I'm on the clock and need simple working examples.
I briefly tried Atlas and was impressed with ease of use, but got hung up with bugs (it's beta, but will be a good tool when it's ready).
Dojo had good starter documentation. I spent a while trying to figure out something poorly documented and figured I'd write a brief tutorial, but was surpirsed they have a "closed" Wiki. After some digging, it suggested dropping the developers a line to get an account, but wasn't able to find the address. I gave up. I can see why their documentation is so spotty, since they ignore what a great tool a Wiki could be. The psuedo-Wiki gaps are somewhat filled by a pretty good newsgroup though.
YMMV, but Dojo was the best of the tools I worked with.
Yes there is and it covers exactly this. I was an officer in Iraq last year and I recall reading a memo to all of my soldiers regarding posting/emailing/blogging anything of this nature. It was theatre-wide and I believe it was Pentagon directed (could be wrong on that). I don't remember it exactly, but it covered pictures/videos of US or enemy casualties, US vehicles, bases or anything to reveal techniques and procedures. I'll try and dig it up.
Richard Gere for curing prostate cancer! *hides in shame*
Finally a slashdot article I can comment on knowledgably.
I'm an officer in the US Army and on a casual glance through the file list there's nothing on there that's classified. You can look up most of these manuals on google.
Here's a site that lists a couple: US Army Fields Manuals Not hugely helpful unless you have training and equipment, but I guess if I were a (bored) terrorist, I'd read em.
Wow, www.cmdrtaco.net slashdotted. Oh the irony.
This book really took me up a couple of notches: Photoshop CS Artistry I don't think it's for the complete beginner, but I got a lot out of it.
I'm not sure you can call Anakin either entirely good or evil in Episode II. He's obviously conflicted. Doesn't make me like him though.
I run a much smaller site and recently switched over to Windows Media.
Having worked at a streaming dotcom a couple of years ago, I was shocked how bad Windows Media had become.
The encoder was a lot less inuitive than Real's, plus it failed frequently (every other day) with our 24-7 stream.
Plus backward compatibilty, which was easy with Real, is nightmarish with Windows Media.
If the easy player link works for us too, I might switch back as well.
I tried talking to 3 of them. After one sentence they all said "Hint: This robot is no longer talking to you".
My game is now so bad chatboxes won't talk to me.
Is it me or is the link to buy broken (bottom of review)?
1) I loved the objected oriented aspects, but was disheartened to learn most of that code only applies to the latest PHP, which isn't deployed in most ISPs.
2) The index is terrible. Thank God the online docs are good. I've rarely been able to use the book as a reference.
3) I'm probably being dense, but I had trouble finding the sample code online. I expected it on Prentice Hall's website or at least an obvious link. (It's on the author's site)
I'm whining, but I really did like this book and would still recommend it.
I went in ready to hate it based on what other nerds had said, but I was hooked and I AM one of those dweebs who was really into the original series. They kept just enough continuity with the original series that it felt familiar. BG had a lot to draw from and I thought they took some of the best stuff. I did think Starbuck's characted could have been better. Maybe because the orignal guy just played it so well. The sexual tension between Starbuck and Apollo will certainly be less funny. As for the series: Make it so! (Yeah, I know)
I played MAME a couple of years ago and loved it.
Recently, I downloaded it and it seems to have reverted to a buggy command line utlity and all the ROMs are on crappy warez sites that usually don't have anything. Anybody keep the old version around?
One of the other comments about drawing with javascript got me curious. Drawing bar charts is easy, just stretch gifs and presto. However, I wanted to do pie charts and found this interesting article.. Probably wouldn't be too hard to throw some trig at it and expand it either.
You make some great points. I'm probably identifying myself as an idiot, but I was running a proxy which was also an open relay (I didn't know). My modem was deactivaed within an hour and I got yelled at. My own damn fault and installed a Linux firewall/router that weekend.
The interesting thing will be when we can throw some good pattern recognition software, then cut out the distribution system. Then you have a cheap and marginally effective deterrent. I can see these going up everywhere in a decade or 2.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of CSS and I do use it, but I can't tell people with older browsers to go take a hike, and I don't have time to code multiple pages (like Wired is apparently doing.)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this cut out a lot of legacy browsers? I'm also not sure about ADA compliance w/ this methodology. I imaging news sites would want to appeal to the widest possible audience.
I'm skeptical of IT people who stay at the same job for more than a few years.
They tend to have 1 way of doing things because they've never learned other systems. Switching companies is a way to do that.
And to answer the inevitable "Not Me" posts, I know there are always exceptions.
Wasn't this a joke in Red Herring a few years back?