A simple child theme that I hack and slashed to make it a bit more personal. It's live but still requires a lot more tweaking and changes I've envisioned. But for now here is the new redesign for JavaScript: 'Unscripted'
Sunday, July 17, 2016
JavaScript: Unscripted - a resdesign
Just a quick update on the new blog which I posted about recently -
A simple child theme that I hack and slashed to make it a bit more personal. It's live but still requires a lot more tweaking and changes I've envisioned. But for now here is the new redesign for JavaScript: 'Unscripted'
A simple child theme that I hack and slashed to make it a bit more personal. It's live but still requires a lot more tweaking and changes I've envisioned. But for now here is the new redesign for JavaScript: 'Unscripted'
Saturday, July 9, 2016
Captain America Civil War
Marvel has done it yet again. Usually a movie franchise hits rough patches at the sequel stage and where DC comics to movie conversions have all but been unimpressive and spectacularly incohesive as the latest Superman Vs Batman demonstrates, marvel seems to have found the almost perfect formula for big screen action and story telling.
Following the trend set by Captain: The Winter Soldier, this installation sees a similarly sombre tone, with subterfuge and misdirection fueled narrative, although this time around the level of accountability seems somewhat less tenable due the strife tied to the Marvel nation of Wakanda as opposed to real world spaces which formed the backdrop to previous movies. Ok fine, there was Sokovia, but it sounded too much like a real place.
There are a few instances in the movie where the usual timed to perfection jokes seemed to have missed the mark and it's only glaringly obvious since the previous movies' draw has been its exquisitely balanced humour sprinkled at the right spots to provide the perfect amount of comedic relief. This this time around, with so much at stake, coupled with the more actuated consequences the Capn and his team have to put up with mainly because they are not invincible super green gamma monsters or a veritable god, seem to wear heavily on the team.
Even so, the ever so slight overbearances do not detract from the overall great package it is and adds yet another delectable notch in the Marvel cinematic repertoire. A must watch this summer; DC take note.
Following the trend set by Captain: The Winter Soldier, this installation sees a similarly sombre tone, with subterfuge and misdirection fueled narrative, although this time around the level of accountability seems somewhat less tenable due the strife tied to the Marvel nation of Wakanda as opposed to real world spaces which formed the backdrop to previous movies. Ok fine, there was Sokovia, but it sounded too much like a real place.
There are a few instances in the movie where the usual timed to perfection jokes seemed to have missed the mark and it's only glaringly obvious since the previous movies' draw has been its exquisitely balanced humour sprinkled at the right spots to provide the perfect amount of comedic relief. This this time around, with so much at stake, coupled with the more actuated consequences the Capn and his team have to put up with mainly because they are not invincible super green gamma monsters or a veritable god, seem to wear heavily on the team.
Even so, the ever so slight overbearances do not detract from the overall great package it is and adds yet another delectable notch in the Marvel cinematic repertoire. A must watch this summer; DC take note.
Friday, July 8, 2016
Friday, February 12, 2016
Nifty little keyboard shorcuts for Firefox
So through my sojourn on my interwebs, and even before I had access, I'd chance across handy little keyboard shortcuts which not only lessen the amount of mouse dragging and clicking but open up completely new actions which elevate usage to new heights.
Some of these are from collections found online and some of them I discovered; note, a good portion of them are things found online.
My favorite Firefox tricks include (might work for other browsers):
Ctrl + E OR F6 - Jump to the browser search bar
Ctrl + T - New tab
Ctrl + W - Close current tab
Ctrl + Shift + T - Open previously closed tab(s)
Ctrl + Shift + E - Global open tab view (a thumbnailesque view of all open tabs)
Ctrl + Tab - Cycle forward through open tabs
Ctrl + Shift + Tab - Cycle backward through open tabs
Some of these are from collections found online and some of them I discovered; note, a good portion of them are things found online.
My favorite Firefox tricks include (might work for other browsers):
Ctrl + E OR F6 - Jump to the browser search bar
Ctrl + T - New tab
Ctrl + W - Close current tab
Ctrl + Shift + T - Open previously closed tab(s)
Ctrl + Shift + E - Global open tab view (a thumbnailesque view of all open tabs)
Ctrl + Tab - Cycle forward through open tabs
Ctrl + Shift + Tab - Cycle backward through open tabs
Monday, February 8, 2016
Commencing countdown, engines on
It's been over a year since this blog has received ANY update. Besides a few little pieces I have nothing overly major to post here at the moment, that will soon change in the next few months or so. In the mean time I've started a new blog JavaScript: 'Unscripted', focused purely on the path that takes me on my quest to learn JavaScript.
It's part of a course I signed up on www.simpleprogrammer.com and which allowed me to go ahead and get a domain name or two registered. At the moment it's very sparse and using default themes but expect that to change iteratively soon enough.
With that I bid you adieu.
It's part of a course I signed up on www.simpleprogrammer.com and which allowed me to go ahead and get a domain name or two registered. At the moment it's very sparse and using default themes but expect that to change iteratively soon enough.
With that I bid you adieu.
Sunday, December 7, 2014
Apache Cordova - Makeshift project template for Visual Studio 2013 (Windows development)
****The information contained here is just a personal
excursion and no liability, implied or express, will be entertained. Use
at your own risk****
Skip to the end to jump to the github link for the template files if you want to give the grueling details a miss.
I've been wracking my head to find an Apache Cordova project template for Visual Studio. I am following along with the MVA (Microsoft Virtual Academy)'s - Developing 2D Games with HTML5 video tutorial. **note Cordova, formerly PhoneGap, requires Node.js installed, and is currently deployed using ndm(node packaged modules) and might require some level of git repository, neither of which are discussed here**
As often as happened with MVA tutorials, the specifics of setting up a system or framework has already changed since the video was released. And being there's no feedback system in MVA, user issues and such are voiced elsewhere, disparately. It's not only hard to find but ascertain whether issues noted elsewhere are directly based on what you might land on from the video.
Now a slight hitch I ran into intially was not being able to create Windows 8 template files to drop into Visual Studio to start a project/tutorial/session what have you. The video explains downloading the zip file containing the Cordova templating instructions (I'm assuming) and then running a batch file called "createTemplates." Even though the video gives a direct link to download the exact version they refer to and have used in the tutorial, when you download it no such file exists. **As explained, the current setup requires that you install Cordova using ndm from the command line.**
So what is one to do, when one is a stickler for coloring inside the lines? Well usually just go a bit out of the lines and come back in the lines when you can. The current method of creating projects is using the CLI, steps can be found here website. But I thought it was handier just being able to open up Visual Studio and creating a new project.
So what I did was create my own template file by extracting choice bits from the sample project that's created as described in the above mentioned link and using a version of windows 8 distro found on their site.
I have yet to test it and use it, but so far it loads without any errors when I create a new project using the template. I've tried using other distros of files which contains the original 'createTemplates.bat' file but after it created the designated template and was inserted into the Visual Studio's template folder, it failed to load with a handful of errors. So hopefully this will help ease the process for anyone who's stuck or doesn't like to use the command line to dally about creating projects.
The template files can be found on my github repo : https://github.com/donyd/CordovaWP8
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Skip to the end to jump to the github link for the template files if you want to give the grueling details a miss.
I've been wracking my head to find an Apache Cordova project template for Visual Studio. I am following along with the MVA (Microsoft Virtual Academy)'s - Developing 2D Games with HTML5 video tutorial. **note Cordova, formerly PhoneGap, requires Node.js installed, and is currently deployed using ndm(node packaged modules) and might require some level of git repository, neither of which are discussed here**
As often as happened with MVA tutorials, the specifics of setting up a system or framework has already changed since the video was released. And being there's no feedback system in MVA, user issues and such are voiced elsewhere, disparately. It's not only hard to find but ascertain whether issues noted elsewhere are directly based on what you might land on from the video.
Now a slight hitch I ran into intially was not being able to create Windows 8 template files to drop into Visual Studio to start a project/tutorial/session what have you. The video explains downloading the zip file containing the Cordova templating instructions (I'm assuming) and then running a batch file called "createTemplates." Even though the video gives a direct link to download the exact version they refer to and have used in the tutorial, when you download it no such file exists. **As explained, the current setup requires that you install Cordova using ndm from the command line.**
So what is one to do, when one is a stickler for coloring inside the lines? Well usually just go a bit out of the lines and come back in the lines when you can. The current method of creating projects is using the CLI, steps can be found here website. But I thought it was handier just being able to open up Visual Studio and creating a new project.
So what I did was create my own template file by extracting choice bits from the sample project that's created as described in the above mentioned link and using a version of windows 8 distro found on their site.
I have yet to test it and use it, but so far it loads without any errors when I create a new project using the template. I've tried using other distros of files which contains the original 'createTemplates.bat' file but after it created the designated template and was inserted into the Visual Studio's template folder, it failed to load with a handful of errors. So hopefully this will help ease the process for anyone who's stuck or doesn't like to use the command line to dally about creating projects.
The template files can be found on my github repo : https://github.com/donyd/CordovaWP8
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Sunday, October 5, 2014
Free Microsoft Ebooks - Programming Windows Store Apps, SQL Server, Windows Server
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Now these aren't around Software testing per se but good starting off points for the topics they represent, and some as adding to the skill set any good software tester should have:
So get them while they're hot, off the presses...well.
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