Two quick, yet extremely useful, resources for HTML writing from me today. The first is an HTML elements index that you can use when checking whether or not a tag is supported by the HTML version you’re using, or for just seeing what elements are available. The other is the HTML Entity Character Lookup, which gives you a fast and simple way of looking up the HTML entities relating to a character.
Archive for July, 2007
Many years after I first started reading Harry Potter (about 6 years) the 7th and final book in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has been released. I got the book on opening day and I ended up reading through the entire book inside a day, starting at around 10:30am and going until 8pm with only quick breaks in between. Whilst the rest of this post will details some of my initial analysis and thoughts I will say straight up that I thoroughly enjoyed this book and think it the best in the series (although the later books are all really good). It’s also a perfect end to the Harry Potter saga (although I am suffering from Post-Potter Depression). If you haven’t read the book yet then you should stop here and go read it as there will be spoilers coming up!
This guide is part 2 of my repository guide series. For this post I’m going to go through a basic usage of the repository that you would use for 95% of your needs. I think most students that I teach (3rd and 4th years) will already be familiar with most of these things but I’ll see if I can introduce some new stuff as well.
If you’re using Linux (and GNOME desktop, although I don’t think it’s essential) and want to run a few Windows programs then you should check out Wine-doors, which aims to make installing Windows applications in Linux as easy as possible. Basically, each application is wrapped in a bunch of supporting information and scripts to run and install the program so that each application can have custom tweaks applied to it. Wine-doors also has a few repositories which allows you to browse available applications like you would in Synaptic or another deb-based installer.
Wine-doors is only at version 0.1 now and has support for a very limited number of Windows programs but hopefully this will improve over time - maybe a few readers would even like to help out? I’m going to see if I can get Zoom Player running as that’s one of the only programs I miss from Windows. Seeing as it’s DirectShow-based I’m not too hopeful. The applications present in the Wine-doors’ repository seem to work alright - it at least takes some of the hassle out of running them with Wine.
This is my thoughts on the latest Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Be warned: there are spoilers ahead!
One of the many things that is in my backlog of things to do is write up a guide for proper/advanced use of version control system repositories for 3rd year software engineering students at my university. Hopefully I might be more motivated to finish it if I create it in a series of blog posts. I’m sure others might be interested in this topic as well and, if you have any suggestions or queries, provide feedback in the comments!