Alan ask: Interviewing Your Domain And suppies some questions, just like blogs way back when! What is your domain name and what is the story, meaning behind your choice of that as a name? johnjohnston.info ’cause .com and .co.uk and others were not available. I waited too long to get my name. What was your […]
ViperCard ViperCard is an open source rewrite of 1987’s HyperCard. Hmm HyperCard plus gifs, unbeatable technology 👍
Apple’s forgotten software gem was a last breath for democratized computing. Can it be revived? The Hypercard Legacy – The Nextographer – Medium – More HC love.
Linked from several mac blogs and news sites is the HyperCard episode of Simple Beep (Simple Beep is a podcast looking back at the history of Apple and the Mac community). HyperCard is a pice of software that certainly changed my life, turning me from someone who had no interest in computers at all to […]
I went along to TeachMeetGLA on Tuesday evening a couple of weeks ago. Arriving before the crowd I noticed the very pleasant surroundings in CitizenM and very fast WiFi. Folk and the pizza started arriving around 5 before the 5:30 kick off. It was a great TM harking back to the early days. Ian kept […]
I am John Johnston A Primary Teacher in Scotland. I currently teach primary 5-6-7 in Banton Primary, the Banton Biggies. From 1993 until 17th October 2008 a class teacher at Sandaig Primary in Glasgow. In 20th October 2008 I joined North Lanarkshire Council as an Educational ICT Development Officer where I was until 2016. From January […]
A while back I backed Next Generation LiveCode (Open Source) by RunRev Ltd on Kickstarter this week RUNRev released the Community Edition of LiveCode. North Lanarkshire, where I work, is just starting to roll out Livecode to the high schools to their computing departments. Although I deal with primaries, this is quite exciting, I am […]
Composition: manhole and chain by 10b travellingAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License Why you should learn to code Primarily you should do it because you love it, because it’s fun — because it’s wonderful to create machines with your mind. Hugely empowering. Emotionally gratifying. Software is math-in-motion. It’s a miracle of the mind. And if you can do it, […]
Open Source Edition of LiveCode by RunRev Ltd — Kickstarter Reinventing HyperCard for the 21st Century. A free open source app creation platform for non-programmers and programmers alike. I just backed this project on Kickstarter. It aims to take LiveCode open source. LiveCode is a x-platform clone of the old macheads favourite HyperCard. HyperCard is […]
HyperCard a tool so beautiful it still makes me cry. Although I say “used”… Sam, Richard, Kris and Stephen were our proper programmers… I tended to join in excitedly, but mainly made black & white graphics or icons. By 1997 we’d made what you’d call a CMS ( Content Management System ) in HyperCard. It […]
