The UI looks nice, and the specs are over acceptable.
I will definitively go for this if its snappy in real life use, so can't wait to try it.
Would be nice if my phone was built on the same OS that i use on every computer every day.
I'm amazed as well that it went that well.
And its really great to hear that they weren't put off, lets hope the coming generation can help improve the genre ratio within programming workplaces.
I like you approach, and choosing shoes probably was a good choice. Instant gratification should be #1 goal in classes like this, its all about building excitement, which it seems you nailed.
"Another girl dug into the documentation she had seen me use, and figured out how to use the color picker to let the user select a color for the line!"
I'm impressed. Figuring out manuals can at times be hard even for us who use them on a day-to-day basis.
Yeah, shows how fast communication can make things happen. If someone droodled something like on a piece of paper 100 years ago it would probably only end up in the fireplace after the family have had its amusement of it.
But then its ashes would spread the carbon of its amusement into the soul of everyone through their breathing and eating . . . you know, in hippy theory at least.
Great article/mini book.
The only thing I miss is a more hands on problem solving example, its such a fun way to start learning something compared to just reading technical detail. Would certainly widen the crowd if you provided both :)
I think just about everyone here will agree that what you describe is more of an ideal web that we want. However, the problem is finding motivation for regular users to sacrifice, and if they wont then you need the big corporations to sacrifice to get there.
How can we find motivation for either part?
I think this will be an extremely long process that is slowly happening on a minor scale, but that we will never see a fully open web - ever - just because of the lack of motivation from its central actors: users and providers.
Things like Wikipedia, OpenID/OAuth, FluidDB, more open API-s (although we don't own the data) are all pointers to the web maybe being more semi-transparent in the future. I mean, things are getting more open, but it will simply never be fully open, no matter how much us developers and geeks want it.
If however someone like google or apple were to find a model were they could still earn their money while being transparent and open, then I would start believing.
The best way to facilitate this process is by doing your part by implementing your site/service in an open and transparent way. If you get successful people will take notice.
Add in that the color for tags and the title is nearly the same. And the more views the more of a "warning color" the count gets. Seems rather opposite.
Depends on mood and problem I'm currently solving.
For trivial coding I can listen to anything and would probably go for something indie. (Currently the "trivial music" has been Florence+The Machine, Dirty Projectors, Crystal Castles and Grizzly Bear).
When I'm stuck on a hard to solve bug/issue I like to go for metal as I tend to get aggressive and that helps me get the aggression out and focus on the task.
But for all other causes I prefer classical music or something akin to it and electronica, especially Niccolò Paganini. And Vivaldi, Wagner, Detektivbyrån, Slagsmålsklubben and Mozart.
I would love to be able to work in complete silence once in a while, but open office makes that impossible.
