Yearbook SW -- Scribus Newspaper Editing -- Scribus Presentation -- Open Office Video Editing (Video Yearbook) -- Kino Typing Program (TuxTyping is good, but doesn't have classroom features) -- let developers of Tux Typing know about it Photo Editing (Gimp actually works!) -- 'nuff said Specialize curriculum (Windows or Mac, no Linux) -- don't know what that means exaclty
Well if you choose to do something that's not related to what you studied then big surprise that it doesn't entail considerable mathematical expertise.
You hit the nail on the head. Too bad I don't have mod points right now. The truth is that most IT jobs are menial work when compared to the full range of the CS field. I think that a lot of tasks/jobs will be replaced by software functions or tools for non-programmers in the future (yes that old argument again).
I disagree with the AC. A well designed templating system will allow you to place dummy data in the template. The dummy markup will be replaced by the real data and markup when the template is run through a live system. So the designer can be given a structural mockup and then go to town fiddling with the CSS and add and remove rows to his hearts content. As long as the structure of the generated HTML is sane there should be no problems.
Jim in Buffalo said: "And Hero System does it in a way that calculates exactly how far the bad guy travels after going through that brick wall, and how many dice of damage you get to roll for the impact of hitting the wall and the impact with the floor on the other side."
This has been my problem with Hero System. It is *too* detailed. Building characters is even more fiddly than GURPS (which has a very detailed system). And combats were just grindingly slow. Generally, I like detail in a system but hero takes it too far IMO.
I think GURPS takes a comfortable middle ground between uber-crunchy games like Hero and more abstract games like d20 or WOD.
Although d20 has a host of other problems I do really like Green Ronin's Mutants & Masterminds/True20 system for supers. It hit just the right spot IMO by dumping the class system in favor of a powers/skills/advantage system that keeps the simplicity of d20. I wish that WOTC had been brave enough to do D&D 3e in a similar manner instead of the clunky, munchkin-slanted game that they have now.
I think that Trac would provide you with all that you need. It combines the features of a wiki with an issues tracker. From their page:
"Trac allows wiki markup in issue descriptions and commit messages, creating links and seamless references between bugs, tasks, changesets, files and wiki pages. A timeline shows all project events in order, making getting an overview of the project and tracking progress very easy."
Yes, it is obviously a fanboy generated screed. I would like to see a real review of the browser by real web content developers who know about real UI design and what areas current browsers need improvement on. Wait there are a few reactions:
A reaction by Molly Holzschlag of thewebstandards.org, a reviewby Dave Shea of (CSS Zen Garden fame), or a review/reaction list on well known designer Shaun Inmans blog.
But leave it to slashdot to link to some MS fanboy just to get a rise out of the flamthrower league.
I am not advocating further population expansion. Zero-Population-Growth is fine. But negative growth brings a whole host of other problems. I was just pointing this out.
So when your population starts shrinking and the current generation starts to age who is going to pay for all of the medical expenses of the older retiring generation (who now outnumber the working younger generation)?
Will you raise taxes a couple of hundred percent?
Japan is starting to see the beginnings of this problem now. The United States will see this pretty soon too.
> Yes! Please include in the specifications
> how to render the/. pages!
The solution to that is to get Slashdot to clean up their broken HTML code.
Its HTML markup is horribly invalid. The Slashcode devs are working on getting it fixed (albeit too slowly IMO). Check these links out:
While it is true that the Xoops community has a lot more web designers working on it, under the hood Drupal has a much nicer design.
Xoops is a good attempt at taking a *Nuke engine and cleaning it up by using object oriented design. But this still leaves some cruft in there.
On the other hand Drupal has a much leaner design. And it can be completely CSS themed now (Xoops still mostly uses layout table designs). Drupal does have a slightly higher learning curve (e.g. the taxonomy system), but it is more flexible in the long run.
I have run both and find that they have different strengths. Xoops is more automated and would be easier for non-programmers. However, Drupal is a much cleaner implementation and is more tweakable.
Slicing up images for table layouts is quickly becoming passe in the web design sphere. You can do all the manipulation you want with your original master image and CSS. Check this article for a simple example
"Regardless of the what the W3C says, those are real attributes that are recoginzed by every browser and used on millions of sites. Not the cause of Firefox's problems with slashdot."
But they are not valid HTML 3.2 attributes. Why slasdot is using a 3.2 DTD instead of a 4.01 DTD is beyond me. But even forcing the validator to use an HTML 4 DTD still produces a ton of errors. Slashdot's HTML just sucks, is invalid, and they know it. Hopefully it will finally be fixed soon.
Yes, PHPNuke and PostNuke both have had a bad reputation for security exploits. A better alternative is Xoops which is also a Nuke derivative but better managed and coded (not to say that it is perfect).
Of the non-Nuke portals I would say that Drupal seems to be one of the most well coded engines. Xaraya is also probably worth a look to but I have not used that one.
So, by your system Wyoming and North Dakota who both have slightly over 1 million people put together should be able to out-vote all 35.4 million people in California (see population numbers here)? Now how is that fair? Or is your definition of "fair" one that most people are not familiar with?
PHP-Nuke was pretty rife with exploits and although PostNuke tried to do better it still wound up with a few exploits. However some of the other Nuke forks are quite good. I am partial to Xoops. Another similar system that is much better designed than the Nukes is Drupal.
I bought a Netgear 802.11b router/access point with a USB wifi adapter to connect to it for $20 (after all the damn rebates) at CompUSA. You just have to keep an eye out. Admittedly the newer hardware costs more; but since I only use it to get 2Mbits out of my cable modem it works great for me.
Obviously you are not familiar with current web design practices. Any designer worth his salt will use CSS to improve their pages, not just "Linux advocates". Your conspiratorial tone and ignorance of the industry is what I was "blithering" about. Look here to see what I am talking about:
IE also tends to render pages faster than Firefox under most circumstances (except where Linux advocate article authors have carefully crafted CSS heavy pages which cause IE to slow down a bit).
So I should drop CSS support in my web pages so that IE can render them faster!?! I suppose then you want that I should go back to editing each and every font and table tag by hand and resort to brute force editing of every single page on my site to change the font size and color of the footer. How 1998.
Ive owned most of those too. And the majority of them got along fine without the large amounts of memory that PocketPC requires. Smart and efficient programming can work wonders.
Slashdot Mirror
Yearbook SW -- Scribus
Newspaper Editing -- Scribus
Presentation -- Open Office
Video Editing (Video Yearbook) -- Kino
Typing Program (TuxTyping is good, but doesn't have classroom features) -- let developers of Tux Typing know about it
Photo Editing (Gimp actually works!) -- 'nuff said
Specialize curriculum (Windows or Mac, no Linux) -- don't know what that means exaclty
You hit the nail on the head. Too bad I don't have mod points right now. The truth is that most IT jobs are menial work when compared to the full range of the CS field. I think that a lot of tasks/jobs will be replaced by software functions or tools for non-programmers in the future (yes that old argument again).
Mod parent up! Since this obviously shows the massive flaw in their statements.
I disagree with the AC. A well designed templating system will allow you to place dummy data in the template. The dummy markup will be replaced by the real data and markup when the template is run through a live system. So the designer can be given a structural mockup and then go to town fiddling with the CSS and add and remove rows to his hearts content. As long as the structure of the generated HTML is sane there should be no problems.
Jim in Buffalo said: "And Hero System does it in a way that calculates exactly how far the bad guy travels after going through that brick wall, and how many dice of damage you get to roll for the impact of hitting the wall and the impact with the floor on the other side."
This has been my problem with Hero System. It is *too* detailed. Building characters is even more fiddly than GURPS (which has a very detailed system). And combats were just grindingly slow. Generally, I like detail in a system but hero takes it too far IMO.
I think GURPS takes a comfortable middle ground between uber-crunchy games like Hero and more abstract games like d20 or WOD.
Although d20 has a host of other problems I do really like Green Ronin's Mutants & Masterminds/True20 system for supers. It hit just the right spot IMO by dumping the class system in favor of a powers/skills/advantage system that keeps the simplicity of d20. I wish that WOTC had been brave enough to do D&D 3e in a similar manner instead of the clunky, munchkin-slanted game that they have now.
I think that Trac would provide you with all that you need. It combines the features of a wiki with an issues tracker. From their page:
"Trac allows wiki markup in issue descriptions and commit messages, creating links and seamless references between bugs, tasks, changesets, files and wiki pages. A timeline shows all project events in order, making getting an overview of the project and tracking progress very easy."
Yes, it is obviously a fanboy generated screed. I would like to see a real review of the browser by real web content developers who know about real UI design and what areas current browsers need improvement on. Wait there are a few reactions:
A reaction by Molly Holzschlag of thewebstandards.org, a reviewby Dave Shea of (CSS Zen Garden fame), or a review/reaction list on well known designer Shaun Inmans blog. But leave it to slashdot to link to some MS fanboy just to get a rise out of the flamthrower league.
I am not advocating further population expansion. Zero-Population-Growth is fine. But negative growth brings a whole host of other problems. I was just pointing this out.
So when your population starts shrinking and the current generation starts to age who is going to pay for all of the medical expenses of the older retiring generation (who now outnumber the working younger generation)?
Will you raise taxes a couple of hundred percent?
Japan is starting to see the beginnings of this problem now. The United States will see this pretty soon too.
The solution to that is to get Slashdot to clean up their broken HTML code. Its HTML markup is horribly invalid. The Slashcode devs are working on getting it fixed (albeit too slowly IMO). Check these links out:
Retooling Slashdot [slashdot.org]
Redesigning Slashdot [alistapart.com]
Fixed XHTML in Slashcode [slashdot.org]
The last one is a slashcode user who fixed most of the issues all by himself. So if you want to prod someone email the slashcode devs.
While it is true that the Xoops community has a lot more web designers working on it, under the hood Drupal has a much nicer design.
Xoops is a good attempt at taking a *Nuke engine and cleaning it up by using object oriented design. But this still leaves some cruft in there.
On the other hand Drupal has a much leaner design. And it can be completely CSS themed now (Xoops still mostly uses layout table designs). Drupal does have a slightly higher learning curve (e.g. the taxonomy system), but it is more flexible in the long run.
I have run both and find that they have different strengths. Xoops is more automated and would be easier for non-programmers. However, Drupal is a much cleaner implementation and is more tweakable.
Yes, there are some excellent ones too. WxPython is especially good:
www.wxpython.org
Also a simpler toolkit to use that sits on top of WxPython is Python Card:
pythoncard.sourceforge.net
And if you are into GUI builder kits try WxGlade:
wxglade.sourceforge.net
Here is the link to the free-as-in-beer, non-commercial only version of Borland's product (C++BuilderX Personal). Soul-stealing registration required.
Slicing up images for table layouts is quickly becoming passe in the web design sphere. You can do all the manipulation you want with your original master image and CSS. Check this article for a simple example
"Regardless of the what the W3C says, those are real attributes that are recoginzed by every browser and used on millions of sites. Not the cause of Firefox's problems with slashdot."
But they are not valid HTML 3.2 attributes. Why slasdot is using a 3.2 DTD instead of a 4.01 DTD is beyond me. But even forcing the validator to use an HTML 4 DTD still produces a ton of errors. Slashdot's HTML just sucks, is invalid, and they know it. Hopefully it will finally be fixed soon.
Because they seem to be blocking the W3C validator. Try The WDG validator instead.
Yes, PHPNuke and PostNuke both have had a bad reputation for security exploits. A better alternative is Xoops which is also a Nuke derivative but better managed and coded (not to say that it is perfect).
Of the non-Nuke portals I would say that Drupal seems to be one of the most well coded engines. Xaraya is also probably worth a look to but I have not used that one.
So, by your system Wyoming and North Dakota who both have slightly over 1 million people put together should be able to out-vote all 35.4 million people in California (see population numbers here)? Now how is that fair? Or is your definition of "fair" one that most people are not familiar with?
More importantly when will this dodgy web site suport recent web standards (the HTML 3.2 excuse is pretty weak if you ask me). This guy recoded Slashcode to produce XHTML all by himself. Why don't the slashdevs work with him if they can't do it themselves.
Except that Slashcode produces horribly invalide HTML. Please use something well designed. Try:
Drupal
Plone
or Xaraya
PHP-Nuke was pretty rife with exploits and although PostNuke tried to do better it still wound up with a few exploits. However some of the other Nuke forks are quite good. I am partial to Xoops. Another similar system that is much better designed than the Nukes is Drupal.
I bought a Netgear 802.11b router/access point with a USB wifi adapter to connect to it for $20 (after all the damn rebates) at CompUSA. You just have to keep an eye out. Admittedly the newer hardware costs more; but since I only use it to get 2Mbits out of my cable modem it works great for me.
Obviously you are not familiar with current web design practices. Any designer worth his salt will use CSS to improve their pages, not just "Linux advocates". Your conspiratorial tone and ignorance of the industry is what I was "blithering" about. Look here to see what I am talking about:
Why tables for layout is stupid
Ive owned most of those too. And the majority of them got along fine without the large amounts of memory that PocketPC requires. Smart and efficient programming can work wonders.