Thanks everyone for reading my blogs each week and for taking some interest in my life. I have enjoyed reading your blogs and this assignment was actually an assignment that didnt come with hours of stress, annoying group members and hard work! So a big thanks to Michael for making such an easy task that I still got a lot out of doing… It was a win win situation. Well I have a big week of studying ahead, as do you all so Good luck to everyone in exams and of course our twitter assignment due on Tuesday.

This is Karina signing off!

ps. Enjoy your holidays and get loose at end of semester bash, you all deserve it!!!!!

Link: http://www.visualthesaurus.com

Features: The Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words. Its innovative display encourages exploration and learning. You’ll understand language in a powerful new way. Main features include;

• Find the right word.
• Develop a better vocabulary.
• Use words precisely.
• Master word usage.
• Improve your grammar.
• Explore 39,000 proper nouns.
• Check your spelling.
• Hear words pronounced correctly.
• Personalize your experience.
• Browse language in 2D or 3D.
• Connect to the Internet.

Usefulness:  Visual Thesaurus can enhance your vocabulary and ensure you get better grades by making your assignments sound professional and academic.

2. The comedy search engine

Link: http://www.comedysearchengine.com

Features:  All things comedy; including links to popular or recent searches, random comedy; pranks, jokes etc It is your online search engine to humour!             

Usefulness: Well, uni can get very stressful and tense, so why not take a break and have a laugh, sometimes it’s the best thing to do as you get your mind off the task, then when you return you ill find you are more focused and ready to do some more work.

3. Seek – Job search

Link: http://www.seek.com.au/

Features: Seek is Australia’s number 1 job search site; You can open an account where you can Save jobs & applications, Get jobs emailed to you, Save searches and Get headhunted. Alternatively you can just jump online and type in your criteria for your ideal job and seek will bring up results that match your criteria
Usefulness: Most of us will be graduating soon and therefore this is the perfect place to start looking for our deal job or rather more ‘a job’!

The point of this story is that i want to know what you think about group asssignments, are they fair, are they reflective of the real world. Bond seems to think so, however, i disagree, i think in the real world people are almost obliged to do thier work out of fear they will lose thier job, at Bond people dont care if they slack off in a group assignment because they have the attitude that they have nothing to lose, after all they only need 50% to pass a subect! This leaves hard working students to suffer and Bond sees this as a good thing appartently…..

Anyway let me know your thoughts.

File extensions: .txt, .doc, .rtf, .odt, .sxw, .ppt, .pps, .csv, .xls, .ods, .pdf

Folder tree allowed: Yes

Maximum files sizes: Documents (up to 500 KB), Presentations (Up to 10 MB), Spreadsheets (up to 1MB) and PDF files (up to 10MB)

Upload/download features: batch and single file uploads, file sharing and group collaboration  

Live:

File extensions: Microsoft .doc, .xls & .ppt

Folder tree allowed: No

Maximum files sizes: Each document that you add can be up to 25 MB in size. Office Live Workspace provides you with a total of 500 MB of storage space.

Upload/download features: batch and single file uploads, file sharing and group collaboration  

browser based front end editing applications

**I havn’t ever used these before, however, they both look beneficial and would save a lot of attached emails!!. I think I would prefer to use the google service after all google are good at everything! I have 1 semester left so I think I will use this service if I have any group assignments in 083!

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I’m in 2 minds if it’s a good idea or not. For example, I would like it to happen because I don’t like my hard earned money being spent on alcoholics and drug addicts who then spend the money on exactly these items, however, maybe it’s a good thing we give them they money otherwise they would probably steal it or hurt someone to get what they want. Let me know what you think. It’s a bit of a difficult debate; I don’t think there is a right and wrong answer.

• All ask for a username and password
• Password always hidden using black dots
• There is a log in button
• Gmail and word press offer a “remember me option”
• Gmail and del offer a “forgot password” link
• All quick and simple to use

Differences of log in:

• Gmail has a “cannot access my account link” instead of a “forget password” link
• Del does not have a remember me option

Similarities of user logged in:

• All show the username
• Del and Gmail go straight to your account

Differences of user logged in:

• Word press has a welcome back message
• Word press has an image
• Del explains that you are logged in as “username”
• Word press you have to click again to view blog

Below are the screen captures of each log in and logged in pages that i just analysed; They go in this order; WordPress, del.icio.us and gmail.  

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate.JSON is a text format that is completely language independent but uses conventions that are familiar to programmers of the C-family of languages, including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, and many others.

JSON vs XML

JSON

{

“image”: “url…..”

“comment”: “How are you”

“username” : “Karina”

“datestamp”: “20^th July 08”

“Time”: “4:14pm

}

XML

<tweet message>

            <image> url </image>

            <tweet> how are you </tweet>

            <username> Karina </username>

            <datestamp> 20^th July 08 </date>

            <time> 4:14pm </time>

</tweetmessage>

JSON and XML are similar because they are simple text formats and different because  JSON is separated by apostrophes and xml uses tags that need to be closed whereas JSON you don’t.

jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.. jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages.

What does minify mean?

Minify, in computer programming languages, is the process of removing all unnecessary characters from source code, without changing its functionality. Minified source code is especially useful for interpreted languages deployed and transmitted on the Internet (such as Javascript) because it reduces the amount of data that needs to be transferred.

Explain the following code and how it differs from using the onload event pattern?  $(document).ready(function(){ // Your code here });

If you want an event to work on your page, you should call it inside the $(document).ready() function. Everything inside it will load as soon as the DOM is loaded and before the page contents are loaded. On some pages that use traditional JavaScript, you’ll see an “onload” attribute in the <body> tag. The problem with this is that it’s limited to only one function. With $(document).ready(), you can get your events to load or fire or whatever you want them to do before the window loads. Everything that you stick inside its brackets is ready to go at the earliest possible moment — as soon as the DOM is registered by the browser, which allows for some nice hiding and showing effects and other stuff immediately when the user first sees the page elements.

allows methods to be linked up together to form a specific action. This allows an element to be reused independently to other method declarations on the same line. To end an event on a line users can use the .end() method which allows the declaration of more script

Explain the following code and its connection with AJAX?

$(“a”).click(function(event){event.preventDefault();$(this).hide(“slow”);});

 This code allows for special effects to make your website stand out. 
The above code should, if you click any link in your website, it should make itself slowly disappear.