Off to the right you should see the 10 most recent comments entered. If you find any weird redraw issues or usability issues, let me know. Also, if you know if there is a way to set the text to a certain size in CSS, but allow other people to change it, that would be great as currently, I only know how to set the text to a specific size to ignore the browser.
Author: JesterXL
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JXL Panorama: Sydney Opera House
Yes, this is an old component, but this is one example of how I used it. Pictures are when Brian, Steven, Branden Hall, and I ate a long lunch at the Opera House in Sydney, Australia.
JXL Panorama, Sydney Opera House Example*** Update 11.21.2006 – Example was taken down, go here instead. ***
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Teaching
Had a friend over last night for a makeshift XML lesson. My softball game was cancelled because the Wrath of God is being unleashed in Atlanta in the form of thunderstorms (and managed to soak my convertible as I left the top off), and instead of hitting the AtlMMUG meeting, I figured I’d do contract that was 2 weeks overdue and making a dear friend not look so good.
I found that actually conveying less information, less details actually helps learning. I know it makes sense if you think about it; you don’t get information overload and you can more easily grasp a concept with just analyzing a small bit of information rather than sorting through a plethora. Still, I had in the past just assumed that if I had a fountain of knowledge, I’d be golden, but I realize in my experiences, some of the knowledge I did manage to get above and beyond the norm really didn’t even register at the time anyway. I had to go through a lot of working through some concepts before I could even comprehend that knowledge, let alone apply it and learn from it.
Anyway, I think it helped tonight. I’m sure my friend is still woozy from all the stuff I went over, but I felt there was a lot I left out. I did it intentionally because I thought the details would just confuse him on an already overwhelming amount of topics; all he asked for was XML, but I went to ASBroadcaster in just 2 hours if that gives you any clue.
Tonight, though, I’m having an afterwork Flash session for some of the programmers in my department; you would think they would need additional info since most programmers I know want all the data, but I’m thinking, for instance, they don’t really care about … well, dang it, I don’t know, hehe. Oh well, we’ll see how it goes.
It’s just really tight to know that I feel “better” at teaching through experience. Phat dude!