my bookmarks 02/02/2012

Dive Into HTML5 Mark Pilgrim wrote Dive Into Python (bookmarked elsewhere in this collection) and here he is writing an emerging O’Reilly Book called “HTML5: up and running” which will be released in a similar way … in paper with on-line version available under Creative Commons. It is now being maintained by the community. tags:html5 book free online mark.pilgrim dive.in eg-259 tutorial ebook html resources eg-146 eg-153 - A long digression into how browsers handle unknown elements...

February 2, 2012 · 2 min

my bookmarks 01/27/2012

BBC – WebWise – a beginner’s guide to using the internet I asked for suggestions for a replacement for Netskills TONIC and Chris Hall (@chris_hall) passed on this recommendation from one of his students: BBC WebWise. This is a beginner’s course aimed at adults who are new to computers and the internet. It has a very wide brief which seems to be the closest to TONIC in it’s range of topics....

January 27, 2012 · 2 min

my bookmarks 01/21/2012

Tutorial: Case Study with Html5 + CSS3 | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials “Last month I did a talk at the Campus Party, one of the biggest technology events of the world, talking about Fireworks, HTML5 and CSS3. It was very nice, the receptivity of the audience was sensational, and thinking that many of you would also like to see the contents of the workshop, so decided to write a full case study and share here on the blog....

January 21, 2012 · 1 min

my bookmarks 01/16/2012

Better than Time Machine: backup your Mac with rsync » Hay Kranen tags:howto tools rsync backup mac Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

January 16, 2012 · 1 min

More on the Year of Code

My Progress on the Code Academy Code Year Open Course As mentioned earlier, code and how to create it has become a bit of an early meme this year. As reported by the BBC and The Guardian, UK Education Secretary Michael Grove has announced a shake up of the Schools ICT curriculum which will allow schools to teach programming. The Guardian newspaper has also just launched a Digital Literacy Campaign, co-sponsored by Google, with the aim of creating a new generation of coders, and Michael Kölling and the Code Academy launched open courses in Java (with Greenfoot) and JavaScript (see 2012: Year of Code?...

January 11, 2012 · 2 min