Re: [ANN] Book. Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner

2013-05-13 Thread Judy Perry
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 tha

Re: Name of UK Tech Initiative?

2013-02-14 Thread Judy Perry
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 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: Name of UK Tech Initiative?

2013-02-14 Thread Judy Perry
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

Re: PPC ?

2013-02-13 Thread Judy Perry
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 whe

Name of UK Tech Initiative?

2013-02-13 Thread Judy Perry
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 op

Re: PPC ?

2013-02-13 Thread Judy Perry
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 Operatin

Re: [ANN] Installer Maker Plugin 1.7.8

2012-05-03 Thread Judy Perry
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? _

Re: [ANN] Installer Maker Plugin 1.7.8

2012-05-03 Thread Judy Perry
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 P

Re: [OT] Missed a chance.

2012-04-17 Thread Judy Perry
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? __

Re: [OT] Missed a chance.

2012-04-17 Thread Judy Perry
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

Re: Forwarded from Grandpa L

2012-04-05 Thread Judy Perry
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 m

E-Learn 2012 (Montreal, Quebec) Call for Presentations: May 25 (fwd)

2012-04-05 Thread Judy Perry
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EdMedia 2014 (Europe) Call for Proposals to Host (fwd)

2012-04-05 Thread Judy Perry
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EdMedia 2012 FINAL Call for Presentations: April 12 (fwd)

2012-03-28 Thread Judy Perry
For everyone who thinks I'm a monumental misguided grump, here's your opportunity to prove me wrong :-D -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 08:16:40 -0400 (EDT) From: AACE To: Subject: EdMedia 2012 FINAL Call for Presentations: April 12 For Web E-mail Version Click

Re: LiveCode Player for 5.5

2012-03-28 Thread Judy Perry
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 thereo

Re: LiveCode Player for 5.5

2012-03-28 Thread Judy Perry
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? : ) ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@list

Re: LiveCode Player for 5.5

2012-03-27 Thread Judy Perry
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 it

Re: Serious Question about the list...

2012-03-18 Thread Judy Perry
Thanks, Jacque. I am definitely "out of the loop" as opposed to "in the know," but I have always preferred the mail list, perhaps because I am lazy and it comes to me instead of my remembering to go to it and check every board. Also, email is faster and only requires remembering one password. Al

RE: [OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

2012-02-25 Thread Judy Perry
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 mo

Re: [OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

2012-02-25 Thread Judy Perry
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 start

Re: [OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

2012-02-13 Thread Judy Perry
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 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, un

Re: [OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

2012-02-13 Thread Judy Perry
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 Xanadu.

Re: OT: Walking

2012-01-30 Thread Judy Perry
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! So

Re: IMPORTANT: SoCal Meeting CANCELLED

2011-12-02 Thread Judy Perry
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 encourage

Re: SoCal LUG meeting: Wind advisory

2011-12-02 Thread Judy Perry
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 me.

Re: [OT] is the list down?

2011-11-23 Thread Judy Perry
Well, the archives certainly seem to be down. http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/ Judy ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: h

Re: [ANN] Last Day for tmCONTROL Reduced Price

2011-11-22 Thread Judy Perry
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: http://tmtools.tactilemedia.com/tmcontrol/faq.html

Re: drawing with a finger in iOS

2011-10-26 Thread Judy Perry
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 t

Re: [OT] Interesting Read On Tech In Classrooms vs None

2011-10-25 Thread Judy Perry
Hi Jeff, I agree completely. In 1998 computer scientist Elliot Solloway observed that "...by and large, schools use only software that comes already installed on the machine (a word processor, a spreadsheet, a drawing program)... computers are being used as typewriters. Its heartbreaking."

Re: [OT] Interesting Read On Tech In Classrooms vs None

2011-10-24 Thread Judy Perry
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.pdf&pli=1 I think I also recently read that some Maine school dis

Re: Question regarding K12 Education pricing...

2011-10-20 Thread Judy Perry
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

Re: Jobs Passed Away

2011-10-05 Thread Judy Perry
Thanks for the amazing carpet ride. Judy ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

Re: Unity on Windows 8

2011-09-18 Thread Judy Perry
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 snippe

Re: [OT] Viagra from Livecode?

2011-09-15 Thread Judy Perry
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 recei

Re: [OT] Viagra from Livecode?

2011-09-15 Thread Judy Perry
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 a

Re: [OT] Viagra from Livecode?

2011-09-14 Thread Judy Perry
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

Re: [OT] Viagra from Livecode?

2011-09-13 Thread Judy Perry
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: C

RE: [OT] Mediocre Britain

2011-08-29 Thread Judy Perry
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, Camm wrote: This topic has been quite interesting and narrow minded ... Education systems in my experience has nothing to with the ability to grasp computing or software development. --For more on that topic, see this very interesting and short article by Sherry

Re: [OT] Mediocre Britain

2011-08-28 Thread Judy Perry
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 principl

Re: End of an Era: Steve Jobs

2011-08-24 Thread Judy Perry
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 he

Re: [ANN] LiveCode.tv event #36

2011-08-24 Thread Judy Perry
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

Re: [OT] Can someone help me acquire a HP TouchPad?

2011-08-24 Thread Judy Perry
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 i

Re: LiveCode.tv event needs you

2011-08-19 Thread Judy Perry
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 making

Re: LiveCode.tv event needs you

2011-08-17 Thread Judy Perry
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. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-liveco

Re: [OT] Internet Censorship

2011-08-14 Thread Judy Perry
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 "t

Re: Back to LC & Inventive Users

2011-08-11 Thread Judy Perry
Many kind thanks to all who have thus far replied :-) Tim: 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 what k

Back to LC & Inventive Users

2011-08-11 Thread Judy Perry
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 in

Re: [OT] Internet Censorship

2011-08-11 Thread Judy Perry
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

Re: [OT] Internet Censorship

2011-08-11 Thread Judy Perry
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 the

Re: [OT] Internet Censorship

2011-08-10 Thread Judy Perry
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, bec

Re: [OT] Internet Censorship

2011-08-10 Thread Judy Perry
On Sat, 6 Aug 2011, Alejandro Tejada wrote: Notice, again, that Sony paid for these rights. If they want, they could forbid forever the public diffusion of any performance of these artists... Forever. No explanation necessary. It's their right. They paid for it. --Not quite, as two former memb

RE: Where does survive the inventive user ?

2011-08-04 Thread Judy Perry
But clearly, having NONE is not the answer. Judy http://bingo.economy-x-talk.com/ On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Lynn Fredricks wrote: 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 what

Re: Where does survive the inventive user ?

2011-08-04 Thread Judy Perry
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.

Re: Where does survive the inventive user ?

2011-08-03 Thread Judy Perry
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 http://www.canelasoftware.com/mc/metacard24/m

Re: Mac OS X Lion

2011-07-23 Thread Judy Perry
I hope so :-) Thanks! (Have been on vacation in Florida) Judy On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Bob Sneidar wrote: Let be burn you copies of what I have. Will .img files work for you? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit th

Re: Mac OS X Lion

2011-07-21 Thread Judy Perry
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 8

Re: Mac OS X Lion

2011-07-21 Thread Judy Perry
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 ;)_

Re: ANN: LiveCodeErrors for iPhone

2011-07-20 Thread Judy Perry
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

Re: [OT] Amiga OS in 2011

2011-07-01 Thread Judy Perry
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 R&D, and then others came along and improved

Re: [OT] is the Lion really just a donkey sewn inside an old lion skin?

2011-06-13 Thread Judy Perry
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. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-liv

Re: [ANN] sunnYmidi: Script your sounds

2011-06-02 Thread Judy Perry
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 t

Re: Happy International Geek Pride Day!!!

2011-05-25 Thread Judy Perry
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 m

RE: [OT] Pirate software in Germany?

2011-05-24 Thread Judy Perry
Lynn, You don't have to be a software developer to have an interest in privacy rights and the whole cuppa noodles that is covered under the 4th Amendment. Just because I am not a software developer (and I know you know that) and just because you sell other people's software and people might

RE: [OT] Pirate software in Germany?

2011-05-24 Thread Judy Perry
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, L

Re: [OT] Pirate software in Germany?

2011-05-23 Thread Judy Perry
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: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/riaa-backed-wa

Re: [OT] MacDefender

2011-05-19 Thread Judy Perry
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 pee

Re: [OT] MacDefender

2011-05-19 Thread Judy Perry
While I wouldn't say people deserve to get a virus, every day I show up for work amazes me with the stupid stuff students/consumers think and do with computers. So, this term -- these are non-CS majors -- we talked about doing data backups. Eyes rolled into the backs of their skulls. We talk

Re: [OT] MacDefender

2011-05-19 Thread Judy Perry
The student stories I could tell you... Judy On Thu, 19 May 2011, Bob Sneidar wrote: What is scary is that anyone who owns a mac would believe their computer got infected and click the Cleanup button. What is even scarier is that I had to replace the keyboard of an accounting user recently w

Re: Incredibly slow revlet in Win 7

2011-05-15 Thread Judy Perry
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

Re: LC in Education

2011-05-03 Thread Judy Perry
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 thi

Re: LC in Education

2011-05-03 Thread Judy Perry
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 wa

Re: LC in Education

2011-05-03 Thread Judy Perry
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 Canadi

Re: LC in Education

2011-05-03 Thread Judy Perry
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 me

Re: LC in Education

2011-05-02 Thread Judy Perry
:-p Sorry, my bad. He IS Larry Tesler. Judy On Mon, 2 May 2011, Colin Holgate wrote: Is he related to Larry Telser? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscr

LC in Education

2011-05-02 Thread Judy Perry
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 som

Re: arrived at the conference hotel

2011-04-25 Thread Judy Perry
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! ___ use-livecode m

Re: need presenters for Live livecode code event

2011-04-07 Thread Judy Perry
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 the

Re: Live LiveCode event #16 (Wrapup)

2011-03-29 Thread Judy Perry
Okay, BvG says I'm being a 'tard in not telling you that it runs just fine for me. Happy now, cheesehead? ;-P Judy On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Judy Perry wrote: Hmmm... I'm a fogey -- still using 10.6.4 -- but I do have the most recent Flip4Mac t

Re: Live LiveCode event #16 (Wrapup)

2011-03-29 Thread Judy Perry
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 l

Re: Do You Know the Way to San Jose?

2011-03-29 Thread Judy Perry
dy On Tue, 29 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.

Re: Live LiveCode event #16 (Wrapup)

2011-03-29 Thread Judy Perry
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. ___ use-livecode mailing list u

Do You Know the Way to San Jose?

2011-03-29 Thread Judy Perry
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 _

Re: [OT] Post Conference Fun Stuff

2011-03-23 Thread Judy Perry
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 a

Re: [OT] Post Conference Fun Stuff

2011-03-22 Thread Judy Perry
Can you get there via mass transit? Judy ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

Re: PlonkerPoint

2011-03-22 Thread Judy Perry
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 a

Re: PlonkerPoint

2011-03-22 Thread Judy Perry
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 a

Re: OT: George Beekman & Amazon Romance Suggestions

2011-03-18 Thread Judy Perry
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 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit

OT: George Beekman & Amazon Romance Suggestions

2011-03-18 Thread Judy Perry
Some of you might remember that George Beekmann wrote the book titled "Hypercard in a Hurry" and a few related books. Today I just received the following suggestion from Amazon.com: "Customers who have purchased or rated books by George Beekman might like to know that The End of Faking It. Nata

Re: Presenting with LiveCode instead of PowerPoint/Keynote

2011-03-18 Thread Judy Perry
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

Re: Presenting with LiveCode instead of PowerPoint/Keynote

2011-03-18 Thread Judy Perry
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 ag

RE: LC-using educators

2011-03-17 Thread Judy Perry
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 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@list

LC-using Educators

2011-03-16 Thread Judy Perry
I'm in a bit of a pickle... can LC-using educators please contact me off-list? TIA, Judy ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lis

Re: 3.14

2011-03-14 Thread Judy Perry
Doesn't quiche contain that forbidden substance of which we must not speak? Judy On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Richmond wrote: And by the way; when I was at school (1970's) in England, the fashionable (and, as is usually the case with these, meaningless) saying was "real men don't eat quiche".

Re: 3.14

2011-03-14 Thread Judy Perry
I'm in the US, but isn't there also the allusion to a slutty female? Judy On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Keith Clarke wrote: ...I'm a Brit, too, Richmond - and wish I had been envisioning tart adhesion as merely a custard pie in the face! ___ use-livecode m

Re: Live LiveCode Code Event #14

2011-03-10 Thread Judy Perry
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... ___

Re: Live LiveCode Code Event #14

2011-03-10 Thread Judy Perry
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, a

Re: Easy way to create Win .ico on Mac?

2011-02-21 Thread Judy Perry
Thanks, Richmond :-) Judy 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

Re: Easy way to create Win .ico on Mac?

2011-02-21 Thread Judy Perry
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 ___ use-

RE: RunRev Live 2011 - Are You Going? Do You Know the Way to San Jose?

2011-01-18 Thread Judy Perry
So Judy, this means you are only going to keep Mark out of trouble, right? --nahhh... double-trouble! :-D Judy ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: RunRev Live 2011 - Are You Going? Do You Know the Way to San Jose?

2011-01-18 Thread Judy Perry
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 away

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