iamfrankstallone

It makes me sort of disappointed when I hear about college courses for web design and development that are teaching students how to write obsolete code. I develop front end code for a company in New Providence New Jersey and I learned how to do this on my own because it is my passion, but the natural course of action for anyone interested in learning web design and development is to go to school.

Now I am not going to say who or what is doing it wrong but I am going to say that recently I encountered a situation where the curriculum for a web design and development 101 class at a college was expect students to do the equivalent of saying, “Oh you drive a Honda Civic? Here are the keys to a Formula 1 Car, drive the Le Mans.” The class project started with building a web site with tables, building the web site with tables… That neither semantic nor helpful for that student to learn because if he or she is going on job interviews and they test him on how to build a web page nobody is going to hire someone who has the coding skills from 1999. Read the rest of this entry »

Awe, I got punked on twitter by the funniest of-the-minute joke going so far. There are a few spin off’s of Kanye West cutting off Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards this past weekend but the best joke so far is a twitter account cleverly titled LetYouFinish. If you read through the posts all the guy/girl does is re-tweet what others are saying and interrupts half way through with his/her own opinion. Some of them are really funny and I took was stung by the “I’M GONNA LET YOU FINNISH BUT…” bee as well earlier today.

Although I do honestly feel bad for Taylor Swift I have to admit that before the incident I have to admit I never heard or watched her music video. Coincidentally I did watch the music video after I heard about it, that’s right I did not watch the VMA’s but this was the biggest story. Word has been going around that it was a publicity stunt but I honestly think Kanye didn’t really intend to hurt her feelings he was just a little emotional. Either way I am glad people can laugh it off and I hope Taylor is doing the same; yeah it was rude but life goes on and if I were Kayne I would let it go too.

TED Talks are “Idea’s worth spreading” and are some of the most inspiration and influential people of our generation who are sharing invaluable information. It gives me great delectation every time someone asks me “What is your favorite TED talk?” however there is no simple answer here. Never have I ever answered this simple question with one single talk. It is impossible, absolutely un-inquisitively-impossible to pick just one of these videos! But, since I have been asked so many times and I truely feel a deep connection to a lot of these talks, I want to share these with you.

This list may grow over time so be sure to come back because if I see a new TED talk and enjoy it I am going to share it with you! Feel free to leave comments and suggestions of TED talks to watch, I am open to watch almost anything from the pallet! Read the rest of this entry »