Making me think

In the Certificate II and III in Multimedia, we are looking at how to design a logo to represent ourselves.

Logos are easily recognised, rememberable, often iconic, sometimes off the wall and most importantly representational of the individual or group as required.

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During the second half of the semester we complete a project that uses all the skills you have gained, as well as enhances those skills when required.

This final assessment item takes the content you have learned in the various clusters and allows you to present a project that combines all the knowledge you have gained in a real life situation. This form of summative assessment allows you to demonstrate the ability to bring various concepts together to develop solutions that encompass the various areas of skill and knowledge.

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jQuery is a wonderful Javascript framework that simplifies many operations, and gives a relatively easy to understand syntax to work with.

jQuery’s built in functionality is great, but like many systems there are plugins available to add functionality to the framework.

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[Diploma in IT / Cert IV in Multimedia students only]

In class we investigated some basic principles of Javascript using the jQuery framework.

The information in the tutorials had you sliding, hiding, updating and removing items from the DOM using jQuery to simplify the process.

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One of the issues is the third party applications (3PA) that allow you to journal/blog when no active access to the Internet is present. These 3PA use the RPC XML to send the updates to the blog… examples are Ecto [http://infinite-sushi.com/software/ecto/], MacJournal [http://www.marinersoftware.com/sitepage.php?page=85] and MarsEdit [http://www.red-sweater.com/marsedit/].

The turning off of XML RPC by default in NEW installations will mean that “new comers” and others who would rather have the desktop client and publish in “batches” will have to do some extra work to turn on the ability to post.

There are always problems with any application, be it web or desktop. They all have security issues… I am not familiar with the protocol, but if there was a way to use a certificate to help secure the negotiation and so on, then maybe we can get around some of the issues that people have with XML RPC availability.