And I thought Ajax was a cleaning product....Concept 28
My mum used to use this product for cleaning the bathroom so when I came across this term in Module 3 that's what I immediately thought of! But apparently its a programming language used to create interactive web applications. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming)
Everyone has head of the term "you learn something new every day", well in
doing this subject I'm learning multiple things every day! For instance I thought "Delicious" was a Food magazine published by the ABC, but its actually (in internet terms) a bookmarking site...it looks quite useful so I've just signed up for it. How I came across it was after reading a fellow students post on "furling" in the Net11 Discussion board. I had never heard of furling before, and if I had to hazard a guess at the meaning of the word I would have thought of something similar to this:
doing this subject I'm learning multiple things every day! For instance I thought "Delicious" was a Food magazine published by the ABC, but its actually (in internet terms) a bookmarking site...it looks quite useful so I've just signed up for it. How I came across it was after reading a fellow students post on "furling" in the Net11 Discussion board. I had never heard of furling before, and if I had to hazard a guess at the meaning of the word I would have thought of something similar to this:
- hurling, which is an irish hockey game! The funny thing is that a few days ago I was adding yet another webpage to my favourites list and I thought that it was a shame that there wasn't a system of saving all favourite pages in one place so that they could be easily recalled - I'd just signed up for google reader which has made my life oh so much easier in keeping up to date with my fellow students blogs! And it turns out that there is - Furl. Furl is about to be phased out though so delicious seemed a better option.In this post I have used some of the html techniques I learnt this week. For example, when I imported the hurling picture, it kept appearing at the top of this page, and I couldn't move it. So I went into the "edit html" screen and found the section that had the img tag, then cut and pasted it where I wanted it to appear in my post! Success! I just had another look at the "edit Html" screen and while I recognised a lot of the commands as html, I could also spot the blogger codes - something I learnt about in a blog recommended by a fellow student Renee. I'm learning so much from reading my fellow students blogs!
My thoughts keep coming back to Concept 28 and the 'paradox of the world wide web'. On the surface, the internet seems so simple. Even my 10 year old daughter can use the internet quite competently to do what she needs to do. Yet underneath it is so complex, there is so much more to it, so much "behind the scenes". We hear the term WYSIWYG - but I never would have thought before about how much effort goes into this. For example, writing this blog on blogger is simple enough, and essentially what I type into this "compose" screen is what appears in the post. But someone has had to initially design the site, invent all the codes, do all of the myriad of tasks to make this all possible, and then there is the hosting side of it.... it is mind boggling sometimes!
signaturesterling.files.wordpress.com/2008/01 - ajax picture
ebay.com.au - delicious magazine pic
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