25 Free Computer Science Books

| December 22nd, 2008 by Dave Q

Interesting 3 of the books here are required reading for our IS course. http://www.coderholic.com/25-free-computer-science-books/ via Coderholic

Checking of IS-EBIZ exercises will start Dec 8

| December 7th, 2008 by Dave Q

Complete all your IS-EBIZ exercises. Refer to the link http://is-ebiz.pbwiki.com/Exercises

Checking of IS-EBIZ exercises will start December 10 (Wednesday). No IFs, no BUTs.

Enjoy!

15 Helpful In-Browser Web Development Tools

| November 26th, 2008 by Dave Q

Smashing Magazine features 15 In-Browser (FireFox browser) Web Dev Tools to help us make those stunning looking web pages. Most of them I have already like Web Developer toolbar, Firebug, Colorzilla, and LiveHTTP Headers.

An interesting tool which I haven’t tried is the Venkman JavaScript Debugger. Since we’re doing mostly Javascript these days, this will be handy.

Head over to the link to give those tools a spin.

via Smashing Magazine

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/11/18/15-helpful-in-browser-web-development-tools/

Make up Classes for Section O0A

| November 20th, 2008 by Dave Q

Please spread the word to section O0A.

Nov 21, Friday 1-2:30PM D403
Nov 24, Monday 1-2:30PM D406

oonaxzieoo’s Weblog

| October 30th, 2008 by Dave Q

Observe the screencap below. This can be easily solved using line-height: 1.1em; or adjust to taste. Without it, it’s virtually unreadable. Sigh. To grade or not to grade?

Actually, you (know who you are) seem to have put your own styling on every post that’s why. Remove, remove the styling on your post to bring back the sanity to this blog. Cheers!

Midterm exam is up

| October 22nd, 2008 by Dave Q

Boys & girls, start your engines! MIDTERM exam is here http://is-ebiz.pbwiki.com/Mid-Terms

Nice photo slideshow from JQuery Cycle Plugin

| October 21st, 2008 by Dave Q

Here’s a nice, lightweight slideshow plugin for JQuery.

http://www.malsup.com/jquery/cycle/

Personally, I love the shuffle effect.

CampusBuddy keeps your professors honest

| October 20th, 2008 by Dave Q

CampusBuddy is an interesting FaceBook app for user-generated professor rating. Go ahead!

So why not CampusBuddy for College of Saint Benilde to keep your professors honest.

Other competing services are RateMyProfessors, Koofers and Check My Campus.

via TechCrunch

More AJAX tuts from Smashing Mag

| October 17th, 2008 by Dave Q

Here are 50 Excellent AJAX Tutorials from the amazing guys from Smashing Magazine.

Sample creating a shopping cart, a dynamic poll, a news ticker, calendar popups, etc. Examples are using JQuery, Mootools, Script.aculo.us + PHP.

Additional links:

From lightboxes to fancy menus to x-fade slideshows, this is another definitive rundown of some badass JQuery stuff. Go get ‘em.

http://devsnippets.com/jquery-posts/20-jquery-plugins-for-unforgettable-user-experience.html