The part of the guathon presentation I went to a couple of months ago in Leicester square that went right over my head was one by Steve Sanderson on a JavaScript framework called Knockout, it’s obviously a presentation he has delivered many times as I have seen from one of the mix recorded presentations you can check it out and see how much you can absorb at the initial speed.
I emailed Steve to get the presentation slides afterwards which he kindly sent over, however he just took time out one weekend to publish a really nice tutorial section at learn.knockoutjs.com if you want to get your head around a framework that can observably bind text and form elements to update in real time on the client without AJAX then have a look at the tutorials which make far more sense than the super fast presentation!.
I need to update my AutoHotKey library now to get some of these useful snippets in there (text expanders are a bit lazy but so much more efficient than remembering everything and repetitive typing)
Since having our son Theo 2 years ago I have rediscovered the fun of going down slides, imagine this at your tube/train station, would you use it? – of course you would :), some lucky people can already use this at a tube station somewhere in Holland.
A couple of months back when looking to get a sponge so I could grout some tiles at home I was in the hardware store in the tiling section I found a sponge for £1.78, but I could swear I had seen cheaper elsewhere in the store so went over to the part of the same store that had things for washing cars and windows and found the same sponge for 30p.
The same thing happens with many things in life thanks to marketing… branding… whatever you may call it, don’t pay for hype and product placement pay for genuine value. Think of it as a contradiction to “You get what you pay for”.
One fish asks another fish “How’s the water?” The other fish replies, “what the hell is water?”
The point: it’s easy to forget that what surrounds you is only normal because it’s what you know. To others, those surroundings might seem pretty strange, try to look at things from a different perspective to get a more true vision of what something might be.
Also consider the value of “New” and “Old”, in relation to when?, if you don’t simultaneously specify at what point it was considered new then using the word new has very little value as time passes.
The part of the guathon presentation I went to a couple of months ago in Leicester square that went right over my head was one by Steve Sanderson on a JavaScript framework called Knockout, it’s obviously a presentation he has delivered many times as I have seen from one of the mix recorded presentations you can check it out and see how much you can absorb at the initial speed.
