After a frustrating search that didn’t bear any results, I made a decision to move to another programming language. What was I searching for? Tips on how to develop apps for mobile devices. I must admit, I was pidgeon holed in one programming language(Visual Basic). I mean, I sincerely beleived that VB was the best …
Migrating to Linux
A friend of mine from college always talked about linux. He swears by it. Everytime he talked about it, i always kept thinking, But why would anyone want to change from Windows, why bother? That is what I always asked myself, so I had a long talk with him and had him explain to me …
Learning CSS
CSS Fundamentals. The Web Development Course at Codecademy has a CSS Track where you can learn the basics of CSS and pimp your static web pages. There are 5 sub challenges that include everything from What CSS is to External Style sheets and Advanced CSS. I’m currently working on the external stylesheets challenge. It’s pretty …
Codecademy
Codecademy Codecademy is another site that i stumbled upon, it’s similar to P2PU,but it is more interactive. I won’t compare the two, but I’ll use both sites to further my Web Dev studies. By now I should have been done with xhtml and CSS. According to my schedule, I should be working on HTML5,CSS3 and …
Hacking the DNS
The next challenge at P2PU is Attack The DNS challenge. The goal in this challenge is to learn as much as I can about DNS. The logic behind this is that since i’ll be modifying DNS records for the websites i’ll be creating, I have to know and understand DNS. The first task is to …
My Domain Registrar
The next challenge at P2PU is choosing a domain registrar. Since i’m still learning, i prefer the free ones, so my choice was register.cu.cc. I’d love to have a .com or .co.zw site but hey .cu.cc is not that bad. I mean, it’s better that terra.dirtcheaphosting.com for instance 🙂 Anyway, register.cu.cc is my choice for …
The Editor Chooses Terra!
After a few days of trying out the different editors out there, i think i’ve finally found one that i’m comfortable with. First, i tried Notepad…but like most of you will agree, this makes your job even more difficult as it is just a text editor, nothing more. I switched to gedit which came as …
Bring it on
ok so i’ve completed the Second P2P Challenge and i earned meself some badges(the default ones)…nice…moving on to the next challenge… Bring it on!!!!!
Handwritten HTML
I meant to do this a long time ago….but getting hold of a scanner proved to be difficult. So what did i do? Used a mobile phone to take the picture.I didn’t have to write out the assignment a number of times to get it right…i have some experience with HTML.(some being the operative word …
Meet TerraMeijar
Hello P2PU people. It’s great to be embarking on this project. So here’s the low down on me.I’m passionate about new technology,the web and programming in general, so i didn’t need much pushing to start theWebcraft101 challenges. I believe the web is a very interesting platform with so much to learn.Coding web apps must be …