Archive for June, 2006

www.marcprensky.com/writing/

I came across this link through my research and read a few of Mark Prensky’s articles. He has some great insight and ideas as to the future of video games and gaming in Education, and honestly, I would love to see more game companies targeting these areas.
Marc certainly has a way with words and his writings cover everything from the way that children think to learnign in the military… yet all his essays and writings have an educational undertone.
Not dull and dry at all, and a good read on a sunday afternoon, I give these articles two thumbs up…

When it comes to structuring projects and active source code, I try to lean towards simple and semantic. Mostly.

We’re in the middle of upgrading our office IT infrastructure, so I’m taking the opportunity to overhaul our weak, inconsistent, all-too-organic and out-dated organizational system.

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While doing research for an upcoming project I had the pleasure of seeing what is out there in the form of educational games for kids.
This is sweet!!!
Not only do I get to have fun, but it has really brought me back to the days of video games of my time… you know the simple two button console controllers and the pixel characters. Things were so much simpler back then…
I now feel a sense of nostalgia and an awareness of what todays youth is seeing and playing on the world wide web, and I strongly urge all of you to take an hour out of your time and get back to your video gaming roots. I say play the games that only have one objective, and play them over and over again! And remember, its all about the research…

some fun and time wasting links…
www.cbc.ca/kids
www.scholastic.com

Another attempt at CSS rounded-corner dialogs using the sliding doors technique

Scott Schiller rocks out with some rad rounded corners. I used this on a client backend (those things are good for trying out stuff you wouldn’t unleash on the world yet) with an impressively high success rate. Simple to replicate, too.

The only bummer is you still need crazy extra HTML elements that muck up your otherwise clean and solid structure.

He mentions a JavaScript-based solution that he developed, which he now poo-poos. I think I’ll try it out anyway.

Projectseven.com - Tutorials: CSS Equal Height Columns

Fancy-dancy animated JavaScript. Uses JavaScript to separate behaviour from presentation (CSS) and structure (HTML). Nice.

This approach blows less hard than the “faux column” trick, which always reeked of single-pixel-GIF-era code hackery to me.