Re: Coursera: Free online courses from top unis
- 2013/1/17 18:57:06
- Madfish
Just a reminder that the next run of the free Cryptography I course started a few days ago, you are still in time to sign up.
I did this course last year and it really was excellent. One of the best parts is that each week they give you a cryptography system to attack as (optional extra) homework (you need basic scripting skills to solve these). These often show how an apparently trivial weakness or oversight can be exploited to totally break an otherwise unbreakable system.
If you have any interest in computer security I thoroughly recommend this course to you. It is by no means a walk over and if you've forgotten most of your high school maths like I had you may struggle a bit!
There's a heap more courses kicking off in January, check out their site. I'm going to do some remedial maths courses before tackling calculus again - and then maybe some programming and physics, with the aim of getting into the Open Pilot (UAVs) and OpenROV project. Robots man, I am going to build flying and diving robots!!!
As soon as I saw Coursera I knew this was going to be a monster, and it is. They already have 2.3 million students, and more than 200 courses to choose from. Enjoy!
Re: CeBIT 2013 > CMS Garden
- 2012/12/31 1:32:30
- fiammybe
Does anyone know how we can be part of this CMS Garden? The site seems to me to be geared at getting you to buy sponsorship ads in the booklet.
Re: CeBIT 2013 > CMS Garden
- 2012/12/26 2:58:33
- fiammybe
That's what I thought, but at this moment there are still rooms and appartments available in the vicinity of Hannover Messe for a reasonable price (€450-500 for 4 nights).
If we want to do this, we'll need to get organised quickly. Does anyone know if they still accept extra CMS systems? I didn't find a link to apply on the site.
Re: CeBIT 2013 > CMS Garden
- 2012/12/24 13:36:21
- david
Tempting - but finding a place to stay could be a bit of a headache with the CeBit crowd taking over most hotels.
Re: CeBIT 2013 > CMS Garden
- 2012/12/14 6:36:42
- bleekk
yes I would like too! Even if it is for one day.
I will check my calendar.
Re: CeBIT 2013 > CMS Garden
- 2012/12/14 0:19:38
- fiammybe
OMG OMG, I would SO MUCH like to go. CeBit has been a bit of a mythical thing for me, and be able to attend would be awesome. Getting a hotel will be a big problem though, normally every hotel in 100km is booked a year in advance...
anyone else would like to go? That would be a cool european ImpressCMS face-to-face.
CeBIT 2013 > CMS Garden
- 2012/12/13 20:50:16
- sato-san
From 05. march until 09. march is the CeBIT in Hannover / Germany, but this year is a little special, because there is a "CMS Garden". This means, they wond to present "The most relevant Open Source Content Management Systems".
http://cms-garden.org/
If anyone is interested? Should we go?
Re: Fixing ICMS Style Smarty delimiters in SublimeText
- 2012/11/26 18:49:48
- sato-san
Great and thank you! I installed SublimeText on my Ubuntu machine yesterday 
/usr/lib/sublime-text-2/Pristine Packages/HTML.sublime-package.zip
Replace the file HTML.tmLanguage.txt and restart SublimeText, finish.
Works as well!
Fixing ICMS Style Smarty delimiters in SublimeText
- 2012/11/26 12:11:46
- Will
If you use sublimetext2 or textmate - no doubt you have seen that these editors register the icms style smarty delimiters as erroneous with the standard html syntax highlighter, and the smarty syntax highlighter available online is useless.
Good news! You can easily fix the smarty delimiters issue, and here is how.
Please note that I am a mac user - you will have to translate to windows if you use that OS :)
Steps:
1. Open /Users/<you>/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2/Packages/HTML/HTML.tmLanguage
Here you can either find the references to smarty and uncomment them - then update them to use the icms delimiters - or just copy this in.
http://mrtheme.com/files/HTML.tmLanguage.txt
Save - restart your editor and you are done.
Re: Coursera: Free online courses from top unis
- 2012/9/13 7:53:12
- Madfish
Just completed the first week. I am very much impressed with the quality of the lessons, and the assessment is quite challenging. I think we are seeing the beginning of a major disruption to traditional education. They've created a monster :)
Re: Coursera: Free online courses from top unis
- 2012/9/11 14:57:53
- fiammybe
Interesting site. I'll have to keep it in mind for next year. Our firstborn has just arrived, so I'll have some additional time constraints from now on.
Re: Coursera: Free online courses from top unis
- 2012/9/11 7:52:45
- QM-B
Nice site.. thanks for sharing
Coursera: Free online courses from top unis
- 2012/9/11 7:33:06
- Madfish
I recommend checking out Coursera.org if you have some time. They offer a large range of FREE online courses, many of which are from top universities.
The courses include video lecturers and online tests/assignments. Some will give you a certificate at the end, but not all. Of particular interest, there are quite a few IT courses. I've enrolled in one on cryptography, the quality of the lessons is very high (but also quite fast paced). If you are quick, I think they are still taking enrollments for this one.
Also some upcoming courses on electronic engineering and robotics, among other things. Seriously, try one out its quite impressive.
Re: Vale Neil Armstrong
- 2012/8/27 5:36:02
- Vaughan
yeah, sad news.
and as far as 1969 tech is concerned, no US astronaut ever got killed on a mission in space until they started using modern technology, starting with challenger & then columbia.
not counting those that died during the apollo 1 launchpad fire, because that hadn't actually launched. & i haven't included training missions.
just goes to show, modern doesn't mean safer.
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together!
Vale Neil Armstrong
- 2012/8/27 4:40:25
- Madfish
I don't usually go in for this sort of thing, but so sad to see Neil Armstrong has passed away.
The first person to set foot on the moon...man that must have taken quite some guts...and with 1969 technology!!!
Re: Check out my new toys...
- 2012/8/26 5:12:10
- Madfish
I can't wait to get my hands on it. Although the Arduino is damn cool, in some ways its like going back to the 1980's.
32KB of RAM. The pi has 256MB.
Re: Check out my new toys...
- 2012/8/26 1:40:26
- Vaughan
yeah, DVI is HDMI compatible, I have an DVI to HDMI adapter. they're fairly cheap. it's just a simple connecter like the dvi to vga adapters. no electronics involved.
if you get your kid to order a pi, they could probably order it through their school with RS or farnell, & get it far quicker. ask them to ask their ICT or computer teacher.
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together!
Re: Check out my new toys...
- 2012/8/25 18:41:25
- Madfish
Apparently if you (can) order a pi through Farnell, the delivery time is only 3 weeks. Avoid RS components if you can (you might not have a choice, depending on where you live).
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