Technoblogical

It’s probably sacrilegious to post this here, but if you are worried about Yahoo buying Tumblr, there are alternatives. My favorite is WordPress. So this is a video tutorial on how to migrate from Tumblr to WordPress. I really hope that Yahoo doesn’t screw it up. They’ve promised not to do so ( http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/20/technology/yahoo-buys-tumblr/index.html ), but after Broadcast.com, Geocities, I’ve lost a little faith. We’ll see what happens now that Yahoo bought Tumblr.

Photos of Russians who drove from Russia to Canada in 2.5 months. ( http://phys.org/news/2013-05-russians-russia-canada-north-pole.html ) The vehicles moved at tractor speeds as they traveled over the North Pole. 

Hey, Netflix’s website sucks. That’s why you can’t see that this a link to Families with Low Self Esteem. Way to go, Netflix! 10 days left.

Today’s video tutorial is about how to build your own objects in JavaScript. Nearly everyting in JavaScript is an object of some kind. We know them as strings, numbers, booleans, or null. they each come with their own methods or properties, but this video shows how to create your own objects. I create a couple of methods and a property to go with it. That’s why it is so long. It is about 25 minutes, so it’ll kill a lunch break.

Hopefully, you know the theme song to Mister Ed. The video will be a bit silly without knowing it. (Honestly, it’ll be a bit silly if you do know it.)

Today’s video tutorial discusses JavaScript variables. Variables hold values and can act just like any data type. Any programming language is going to have variables. You name a JavaScript variable using uppercase letters, lowercase letters, underscores, or dollar signs. The one thing you can’t do is begin it with a number.

So recently I saw a presentation that somebody did about how to build a WordPress theme. I was quite excited when I saw it listed, but when I saw the presentation, it was nothing more than a PowerPoint and link to a web site for the tutorial. This was at a conference. I thought, “I can do better than that.” So, here it is. It’s two hours, it’s ugly, but when finished, it’s a working WordPress theme. I start with a blank page and end up this two hour video. I might make this a regular thing. I hope you enjoy it. Thanks for watching.

They got little baby legs
That stand so low
You got to pick em up
Just to say hello

This “How to JavaScript” tutorial shows how to leave comments in your JavaScript. This works with either an external JavaScript file or some that is embedded in the HTML of a web page.

It is important to leave notes in your JavaScript because a later developer might need to know what it is you are doing with it. Some days, you are working on six month old code and need a reminder to its purpose.

Anyway, this is a simplistic thing to learn but must be learned by everyone. This makes it one of my more important JavaScript Video Tutorials.

How to JavaScript

JavaScript video tutorials

What is JavaScript? JavaScript is a client-sided scripting language. It is a programming language that is performed by a browser to add extra functionality to a web page. It is primarily used by web browsers. This web design tutorial video is showing how to embed JavaScript into a web page. It also shows how to use jQuery. JQuery is a JavaScript library used to simplify writing JavaScript since different browsers often interpret JavaScript differently,