May 22, 2007 - Back from RailsConf. - Here are the latest highlights: news of Hackety Hack's Ubuntu release arrived and Dell's Ubuntu shipment seems just around the corner. [MORE...]
May 9, 2007 - What's the best way to learn Ruby and Rails? Meetups? Extended user group meetings? Small study groups? Online chat forums for people geographically remote? [MORE...]
May 8, 2007 - Welcome Aboard Lollipop Lucy! [MORE...]
May 5, 2007 - Whoooo hooo! Hackety Hack on the road at RailsConf 2007 [MORE...]
May 4 , 2007 - SlideySlide v0.09 posted - maybe it has made it to 6 th grade? [MORE...]
May 1 , 2007 - Bebe Carat and Ruby Tuesday join Broccoli Head in the Quest for Learning How to Code - Bebe Carat joined the ranks of our Rubyist character list. Soon after, Ruby Tuesday was drawn into the fun as well. This sort of thing, I hope, is good for your eyes. [MORE...]
April 30, 2007 - Slidey Slide makes it to 5 th grade - Yes, w e now have a working version of SlideySide! You can take a look at this slide and follow it to the others. SlidelySlide automatically generates a Cover Page, helping you navigate to different individual slides. Maybe fifth grade level? [MORE...].
April 29, 2007 - Essential Features for SlideySlide in order to be promoted from 10th grade - I checked with someone who knows and learned there are four features to meet the high standards of a 10th grader's expectations for SlideySlide. They are simply these: Background Graphics, Transition Effects, Speaker Notes, and Emailability. [MORE...]
April 28, 2007 - The Lessons we are Learning - I asked my kids to name the most important applications for school use. "Slide Presentations" hit the top five. I thought, "What if I could build a simple presentation application in Hackety Hack?" The kids helped name it: SlideySlide. [MORE....]
April 27, 2007 - Learn, Lead, and Follow - On March 1st, everyone in the beta group got acquainted and the first software appeared. I downloaded Hackety Hack and was immersed immediately. _why was there from the beginning helping, guiding, and updating everyone. Little did we know then how much each of us would learn. [MORE....]
April 26, 2007 - In the Beginning There was Hackety Hack - To me, Hackety Hack is as significant a computer-age innovation as the mouse because it makes computers accessible in wholly new educational and transformational ways. I hope this will become clearer in time. [MORE....]
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NOTE: Hackety Hack graphics on this page by permission of why the lucky stiff under the Creative Commons' Attribution 3.0 License. I have no idea how he marshals the talent and creativity to generate this - it sure is amazing.
