As you know, I love CoffeeScript. Of all the technologies on that rapidly growing must-get-round-to-learning-sometime pile, I’d certainly recommend putting CoffeeScript towards the top.
Well, guess what? Code School are offering the first level of their CoffeeScript course free of charge. It’s a very brief introduction but well-worth watching and whetting your appetite for more.
If you teach kids Microsoft Office in school in computing studies, don’t be surprised if your high-tech workforce ends up being secretaries.
I couldn’t agree more with the sentiment of this tweet by Aral. And I’m disappointed to see the nature of ITC teaching in this country hasn’t changed one iota from when I was at school. Last century.
A pleasant surprise landed in my Twitter stream today. This lucky git has only gone and won tickets to Geek Karting this Friday! To any fellow geeks contending, I look forward to meeting you. See you at the finish line!
I’m not sure the world needs many more 8mm-retro-cinefilm type iPhone apps, but the web could certainly do with more examples like this teaser page for the forthcoming Nizo for iPhone app.
A faithfully recreated pair of Technics 1210s in HTML, CSS, JavaScript (and a tiny bit of Flash). Simply, mind-blowingly, fantastic! Also make sure you check out Scott Schiller’s very (very) detailed writeup on why and how and why he created his homeage to turntables.
Another book now sits on my when the heck am I going to read all these pile. I have a feeling I’ll be sneeking this one to the top of the pile though.