I'm waiting. tap.. tap... tap...
Judy
On Mon, 13 May 2013, Mark Schonewille wrote:
Hi guys,
The book has arrived in the office today. Three boxes full with books waiting
to be shipped all over the world. I must say, it is really cool to have my
own book in my hands.
We have sold more
Thank you, Peter. This gets me closer. Oddly enough, my Amtrak train
wifi connection filter is blocking out the site, so I'll have to check out
the rest of it when I get to work ;-)
Judy
On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, Peter W A Wood wrote:
This probably isn't what you're looking for but it may help
Thank you, Devin.
On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, Devin Asay wrote:
2. If and where the 30-day free trial went (link).
It appears to be a 60-day trial now: http://www.runrev.com/Get-Started/
Devin
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My university's CS department's Linux lab is comprised of all PPC Macs.
Judy
On Sat, 9 Feb 2013, Richmond wrote:
What chance:
1. A Mac PPC version of O-S Livecode?
2. A Linux PPC version of O-S Livecode?
Lots of underfunded schools out there running PPC Macs with either of those
Operating
Hi all,
I seem to recall that in the last year or so, there was a UK STEM
initiative to introduce programming in the schools but I've lost the link
and was wondering if any of you possibly had it?
I usually have a small part of one assignment for my students involving
making them aware of
Mark,
On Wed, 13 Feb 2013, Mark Wieder wrote:
Judy-
Wednesday, February 13, 2013, 8:14:31 PM, you wrote:
My university's CS department's Linux lab is comprised of all PPC Macs.
Interesting. What are they running? Yellowdog?
You know, I don't actually know! I was kinda broken-hearted
Mark W.,
If you read Mark S.'s page, he makes it very clear that all bug fixes and
new releases are free for a three month period after you've bought his
software.
I don't understand what the problem is...
Judy
On Thu, 3 May 2012, Mark Wieder wrote:
Mark-
Thursday, May 3, 2012, 4:03:28
And, FWIW, Rev certainly makes people pay for bug fixes. I'm still
waiting for rotate to work properly, something that's NEVER worked since
version 1.
Judy
On Thu, 3 May 2012, Mark Wieder wrote:
Er... this just caught my eye. You make people pay for bug fixes?
Funny you should mention this... This is what I'm thinking of doing at my
kids' middle school next year... Well, without robots anyways.
Judy
On Tue, 17 Apr 2012, Richmond wrote:
Why do I feel that RunRev's odd behaviour with RevMedia has meant
that they may have missed an important chance?
Not necessarily; they could still get listed here:
http://codeclub.org.uk/blog/
But then they'd need a canned set of lesson plans.
Judy
On Tue, 17 Apr 2012, Richmond wrote:
Why do I feel that RunRev's odd behaviour with RevMedia has meant
that they may have missed an important chance?
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I've been looking at this with interest...
Nice that somebody with 30 seconds on their hands can spare it to provide
a review. :-)
Judy
On Wed, 4 Apr 2012, Paul Looney wrote:
Amber,
This was on one of the lists I follow.
Bob Earp is a fellow programmer who lives in British Columbia. I've
Hahahaha! Well, in my own defense, it WAS fake, therefore it can't be,
well, you know ;-)
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012, Scott Morrow wrote:
Judy,
Do you think it is alright to mention even fake cheese? : )
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Apple just seeded about $800,000 worth of iPads to my one state university
campus alone; most instructors privately concede that they just gave them
to their kids to play with.
The problem isn't with the hardware; it's usually the software and
curricular integration end (or largely lack
For everyone who thinks I'm a monumental misguided grump, here's your
opportunity to prove me wrong :-D
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Certainly, it's easy enough to blame poor online learning experiences on
lazy or inept instructional designers who all too often are taught to use
truly crappy tools, but it doesn't excuse the crappy tools themselves.
And why do teachers and instructional designers use crappy tools?
Because
You are correct; they have NO IDEA how their file system works. I'm lucky
if they can even recall what they named a file, and they pay ZERO
attention to file formats. One couldn't grasp the concept of overwriting
a file. Sigh.
Judy
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012, Peter Bogdanoff wrote:
When I
O_o
Judy
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Lynn Fredricks wrote:
I think you should also not underestimate the value of a predictive (and
more advanced AI) system that allows other interfaces to be more simplified.
So many lessons were learned starting from the lean restrictions of the PDA
era. More and
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Alejandro Tejada wrote:
So, I find rather revealing that today so many developers
are mostly unaware of the existence of HyperCard.
I'd wager a majority of computing professionals these days don't even
know who Vannevar Bush was, or Project
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, Richmond wrote:
And how many people realise that Ada Lovelace was the Mother of them
all.
And the daughter of Lord Byron...
Judy
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Awesome! Way to go :-D
Judy
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, Mike Bonner wrote:
Ok. I know this is not the most appropriate place for this but.. Today for
the first time in about 12 years I walked 5 unassisted steps in physical
therapy. (no walker, cane, walking sticks or anything) And no face plant!
On Thu, 1 Dec 2011, Todd Geist wrote:
Wow, we had no wind at all. I am maybe 50 miles from Pasedena
--I'm 100 miles (well, probably in that range) south of Pasadena and we
had high but not abnormally high winds today. Still, that plus a nearly
200 mile round trip makes it undoable for
Whatever happened to a mid-so-Cal meeting area in OC?
Judy
On Thu, 1 Dec 2011, Richard Gaskin wrote:
The City of Pasadena has declared a state of emergency in light of the
ongoing wind storm (see earlier post), so after discussing this with Bill
Vlahos we agree it's just not safe to
Well, the archives certainly seem to be down.
http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/
Judy
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Does this apply to those of us who bought it at the conference?
Judy
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011, Scott Rossi wrote:
Just a reminder that today is the final day of introductory pricing for
tmCONTROL. A FAQ, screenshots, and other information is here:
Plus, I believe that there is a font creator/editor available for the
iPad; whether or not LC supports the capability is another matter.
Judy
On Tue, 25 Oct 2011, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
Andre,
There must be some way, since the iPad2 TV Commercial shows some children doing
just that with
This book is about 10 years old but is still a sobering read:
Larry Cuban
Oversold and Underused: Computers in the Classroom
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/edskas/Cuban%2520article%2520-%2520oversold.pdfpli=1
I think I also recently read that some Maine school
John,
My department killed off my class a good seven years ago, but they
were always very accommodating in terms of lab pack licenses as well
as arranging good student purchase pricing. Contact them off-list.
Oh, and as for financially-struggling schools, well, is there any other kind?
Judy
Thanks for the amazing carpet ride.
Judy
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We spend a good week in class going over EULAs. Quite eye-opening for
them. I'm especially fond of the nuclear power plant clause in the iTunes
license agreement.
Judy
On Sat, 17 Sep 2011, Mark Wieder wrote:
Silly boy. Haven't read EULAs in a while, have you? Here as an example
is a
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
The only problem about random nonsense passwords is that, once chosen, they
stop being random and have to be remembered.
--Right, and my university is quite insistent that we must change our
passwords every six months, and the new one cannot be
Well, the crazier thing is actually that I'm the IT person in this case
and good luck to hackers finding my server space, as it's among the 11
million websites removed from Google's database for being a free co.cc
top-level domain. You can't begin to imagine how many panicked emails
I've
I tried doing the random nonsense passwords exactly once and ended up
having to log in most of my students myself by hand. Never again. Now I
make their account logins and passwords the same thing:
FirstInitialLastname. I think it's okay to assume that a reasonable
number of them know how
Funny, we were just talking about the passwords thing in class the other
day and I asked one of the two CS majors in the class to explain to their
classmates some of the basic rules about setting passwords.
They couldn't come up with any :-(
Judy
On 09/13/2011 10:43 PM, Jerry Jensen wrote:
Don't EVEN get me started on my students...
Judy
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011, Petrides, M.D. Marian wrote:
Hmmm... sounds suspiciously like No Child Left Behind here in the States. The
sad thing on our side of the pond is that NCLB worked so well (NOT!) that they have decided
to apply its
That's odd; I've almost never had a problem with the various HP printers
I've owned/used, but every single Epson made me want to slit my throat.
Judy
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011, Bob Sneidar wrote:
WHAT?? HP released a computing device with crappy software with the thought
that they could just fix
Awesome!
Let me mention for the 10,000th time that I once had a student (CS major)
who thought it would be really ueber cool to have, like, 7 of them on a
single card.
I asked him, You DO know the function of a default button, right? when
he came to me with problems... He said he did but
I hope that he will be able to spend some quality time with his loved ones
and friends.
Judy
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011, J. Landman Gay wrote:
I don't think that will happen. I watched a friend die of exactly what Jobs
has. Given how passionately Jobs loved Apple, I suspect he hung on as long as
Mark,
I sent Bjoernke a tentative proposal for 4-8 shows I could do/pre-make
targetting *absolute* beginners/non-programmers in conjunction with an
idea I have for my 3rd year university non-CS majors this term.
It will probably take me at least a week to flesh out the ideas and start
Mike,
As someone who is new to livecode, what would you be interested in
seeing?
Judy
On Wed, 17 Aug 2011, Mike Felker wrote:
I have not yet attended an event (new to livecode), but if I can help I will.
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Perhaps you'd care to offer an example or three of hobbyist (notice that
it is ALWAYS used in a demeaning manner) software done in LC that looks
or behaves any crappier than stuff produced by real programmers in *any*
language who've obviously never had a course in UI or UX design?
Judy
the
Indeed, this can be true; two sound-alike singers were hired directly from
their YouTube performances as replacement singers for the prog rock band
Journey and Dennis DeYoung from Styx for their respective tours.
Judy
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011, Roger Eller wrote:
I agree. In fact, I witnessed
I agree wholly.
However -- it's worth noting AGAIN that Steamboat Willie is STILL under
copyright. If IP law continues in this direction, it and anything
produced afterwards may NEVER enter the public domain.
Also -- there's some controversy that the popular song, Happy Birthday,
is under
I have a vague notion of a hands-on assignment for my classes next term
involving having them use the 30-day demo and making something
semi-interesting (to them) in LC.
Apparently I did a really sucky job of articulating this to the first
person I asked, so, here I try, try again, this time
Many kind thanks to all who have thus far replied :-)
Tim:
snip
The usual hyperCard tutorial stacks included address books, index your CDs (now
DVDs or MP3s). These were good learning experiences that could produce truly
useful stacks.
--This was another matter I was pondering: exactly
Alejandro,
Part of the problem, at least in the US, is that fair use is not a
right; it's a defense, meaning you have to risk being sued to even
mention it.
A silly little video of mine was just taken down by EMI because I used a
recording of O Fortuna. I suppose EMI could claim that,
Indeed.
On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Pierre Sahores wrote:
The great strength of HyperCard was to offer us hundreds of preprogrammed
stacks that we could arrange as a lego to build our first applications before
we had to put our fingers in the dust to understand how these stacks were coded.
But clearly, having NONE is not the answer.
Judy
http://bingo.economy-x-talk.com/
On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Lynn Fredricks wrote:
snip
But I think the question is, if all the programmatic elements that created
the HC phenonemon then were implemented in LC today, would the end result be
similar to
Alejandro,
Something better is needed... and geared towards the true inventive user
and less towards the newbie programmer.
Best,
Judy
http://bingo.economy-x-talk.com/
On Tue, 2 Aug 2011, Alejandro Tejada wrote:
http://www.metacard.com/pi6.html
System 9 isn't easy to find, either...
Judy
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, François Chaplais wrote:
when I learned that Lion requires snow leopard (which I do not have on all of
my machines) I cautiously ordered a copy of snow. Hardest to find is System 7.x
for my powermac 8500
Actually, I do. I have a couple of original iMacs I need to revive... My
office machine (a G3 blue white tower) might actually be running 8.x;
can't tell as they got rid of the monitor :-(
Judy
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Bob Sneidar wrote:
I have a copy if you need it. Actually, I still have
I've followed this thread with some interest as it is something I intended
to purchase once my vacation here in Florida is done.
What amazes, no, horrifies me is the pure vitriol and outright personal
nastiness that has greeted this nice product.
Sure, the rest of you Titans could figure out
I would hardly consider graffiti an improvement...
Judy
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011, Bob Sneidar wrote:
Let me guess, you dropped it into a toilet... OH WAIT! It wouldn't fit, now would
it? LOL! Actually, I was sad to see the newton go. Apple did all the RD, and
then others came along and improved
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
Where did Lewis get the name 'Aslan' ?
It's the name of a fingerspelling font.
Oh, wait... that's Amslan.
Judy
I'll be here, goofed out, for the rest of the week.
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Thanks for the heads-up, Jacque. Somehow I missed this!
Judy
On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 6/1/11 3:15 AM, Thierry Douez wrote:
Hi all,
I am pleased to announce SunnYmidi.
SunnYmidi is a simple and powerful tool
to help LiveCode Users add sounds to their stack.
I've seen
Does it count if the glasses I lost at the conference were wire-rimmed and
ghetto-rigged with craft wire?
Judy
On Wed, 25 May 2011, Jonathan Lynch wrote:
Today, in celebration, I wore a short sleeve button up shirt, a tie that is
tied too short, and fake horn rimmed glasses with tape in the
If people are indeed stealing/frauding, then you get a warrant. You issue
DMCA takedowns. Destroying what little is left of the 4th Amendment is
not the answer because the 4th Amendment is larger in scope than the
smaller issue of IP protection (which I support).
Judy
On Mon, 23 May 2011,
Coming late to this discussion, but here's how sane we in the US are not:
Ars Technica is reporting on a bill going through the California
legislature that would permit warrant-free searches of firms that do CD or
DVD duplication:
Ha! I've got that one nearly beat. I worked my way through school doing
DOS word processing for real estate appraisers (including that wonderful
WordAwful program that dumped you into an entirely blank screen).
I'd save project files onto 5-1/4 floppies... that my boss would later
put a
Okay, this is only tangentially-related, but, I was wondering this just
the other day -- Now that it's no longer called Revolution, are the
web-deployable thingies still called revlets?
Judy
Read the wrap-up of the San Jose conference education sessions here:
http://revined.blogspot.com
Alejandro,
That was Carly Born. I don't know if she follows this list, but if you
are interested, I can give her your email information and she can perhaps
follow-up with you. I prefer Moodle over Blackboard because it sucks for
free (okay, it doesn't suck overwhelmingly... really!)
Let
Colin,
Moodle is gaining traction in education because it is FOSS, that is, free,
whereas Blackboard is hugely expensive and doesn't tend to play well with
any browser made outside of Redmond. Blackboard also has exhibited
predatory patent practices and successfully locked some similar
Terry,
It's funny that you should mention Blackboard being awful. It really IS
gawdawful! I happened to be in my class early one day and several
students were trying to access my Moodle setup (on server space I rent
from Mark and paid him to install while I maintain) and they reported it
Alejandro,
Like I haven't heard how our CS students easily hack whatever it is we're
using for our MS in Software Engineering online coursework... (wanna bet
it's Blackboard?!). They actually TELL ME these things. O_o
Judy
On Tue, 3 May 2011, Alejandro Tejada wrote:
By the way, after
Greetings, all!
We had not one but TWO lovely little LC in Education presentations at the
conference (the second of which featured Larry Lesler showing us something
he's working on, and which went on for two straight hours!) and, as a
means of keeping all the educators or those using LC in
:-p
Sorry, my bad. He IS Larry Tesler.
Judy
On Mon, 2 May 2011, Colin Holgate wrote:
Is he related to Larry Telser?
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I *like* this weather!
Judy
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011, Andre Garzia wrote:
Folks,
I am here at the conference hotel, if anyone else is already here, I will be
walking around trying to keep warm because this is too chilly for my taste!
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On Fri, 8 Apr 2011, Björnke von Gierke wrote:
I still haven't found enough presenters for the event this saturday. Please
step up and stream! Contact me or Mark off list, or on chatrev.
Remember: Without presenters, the event is not happening.
--Come on, folks! Even *I* have done two of
If you do, and you're going, and you do anything even remotely
educational, I'd like to recruit you for a roundtable session on using LC
in/for education.
I currently have three other participants who have allowed me to twist
their arms... can I twist yours?
Please let me know!
Judy
Works fine here with Shockwave Flash 10.1 r85 on Safari 5.0.1.
Judy
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, J. Landman Gay wrote:
I have Flash installed. I tried with both Firefox and Safari with the same
results. I'll try again later.
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Mar 2011, Judy Perry wrote:
If you do, and you're going, and you do anything even remotely educational,
I'd like to recruit you for a roundtable session on using LC in/for
education.
I currently have three other participants who have allowed me to twist their
arms... can I twist yours
Hmmm... I'm a fogey -- still using 10.6.4 -- but I do have the most recent
Flip4Mac thingy installed.
judy
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 3/29/11 8:06 PM, Colin Holgate wrote:
What version of Flash do you have installed?
10.2r152. Last week it was the earlier version. Also
Richmond,
I'm catching up on emails and I was reading this email while allowing my
students to work in small groups on their final project, and when I read
your definition of IT I literally laughed out loud. The week before I did
a lecture on computerized voting machines, known as DREs, and
NeoOffice too. I really don't need twirly nauseating text. I once had a
student group do their report on the eBay phenomenon. Yup, you guessed
it. EVERY SINGLE LETTER in the presentation was in a different color.
Every line twirled into focus. It was downright nauseating.
Oh, and here's
Can you get there via mass transit?
Judy
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Sounds like San Diego's mass transit :-(
Judy
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Scott Rossi wrote:
Recently, Judy Perry wrote:
Can you get there via mass transit?
FYI: public transit in the SF Bay Area sucks. I can say that because I've
lived here all my life
This is the way I have always done it back when I taught an intro class
(which was more than 5 years ago methinks).
Having said that, however, I'm still chewing on my pickle.
Judy
On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, stephen barncard wrote:
Kevin Miller, the ceo, was spotted at a Revcon a couple of years
When I did my presentation a few years ago at either SITE or AACE, I did
it in either Keynote or the OpenOffice PPT version because, well, this was
a bunch of educators and that's pretty much all they're taught.
I actually had one or two people ask me why I didn't do it in Rev ;-)
Needless to
Mark,
On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, Mark Wieder wrote:
I hate faking Hypercard, don't you? Even when I'm in a hurry...
--Hahaha! Especially when it's hardcore, er, hardcover :-p
Judy
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Please
Many kind thanks to all of you who have responded.
Today's one of my long teaching days and thus I won't be able to get back
with you until either late tonight or tomorrow sometime.
Thanks again!
Judy
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I'm in a bit of a pickle... can LC-using educators please contact me
off-list?
TIA,
Judy
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Yes, this is a sore spot. It's not Mark's fault. If you alter your
security settings in Safari, I've found that solves the problem (thanks,
Bjoernke!).
Judy
The LiveCode Village Idiot Who's Now Been Drafted TWICE To Do A
Presentation
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Jerry J wrote:
On Mar 10, 2011,
Oh, and you're more lucky than me: Safari refused to load the page until
I changed my security settings to ignore it.
Judy
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Jerry J wrote:
And again, Safari thinks that link is dangerous. I ignored the warning and it
did indeed lead to your page, but...
Thanks, William :-)
Judy
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, William de Smet wrote:
Hi there,
Answering my own question after a month :-)
I found Hobiconer for OSX which makes beautiful WIN .ICO files.
The created .ico file works perfectly with LC 4.5.3
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On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, Richmond wrote:
I shall point out again that GIMP exports Windows Icons -
http://www.gimp.org/
This is also worth a look:
http://iconverticons.com (an online solution; of course the people behind it
probably end up
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Mark Wieder wrote:
Lynn-
Monday, January 17, 2011, 3:33:13 PM, you wrote:
Just checking to see - who all is going this year? Just noticing that its
happening in April 2011, and we are shortly running out of January 2011.
I'm going. That'll probably keep some folks
You know, this, and thinking about renewing my license, got me a-thinking:
Why does Rev charge extra for producing revlets??
This makes no sense. There's no way to monetize revlets. Why are
they charging extra for this?
Judy
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