laptop new life

Just a quick post to say I have resurrected my girlfriend old laptop by installing Ubuntu over windows.

 I'm writing this on LibreOffice because my spelling and grammar are appalling. Cant spell appalling so thank goodness for spell check. 

I really like the set-up and lay out of Ubuntu, its super easy to install and set-up. Boot rally fast and on this laptop that saying something but this thing is ancient I mean there were Romans on the earth when this thing was made.

Its a really breath of fresh air over the mundane style that is Microsoft windows. it never really changed has it, same old blues and task-bar. 

I wrote my last post on this laptop too, and I'm really impressed so far, I've installed wine as I cant install notepad++ which works great. I'm going to test as much as possible over the next coming weeks and get back to you about it performance.

Real Racing 3

Something a little different, at the back end of last year I started writing a blog about how I want to improve my kill/death ratio on call of duty. That then turned into a gaming blog as I discovered the world of professional gaming. I stopped writing it because I have a terrible memory and most of all I get forced on something and it tends to consume me. I started with call of duty then I found star-craft 2, then I'll get frustrated and put it down and find something else.

Anyway strictly speaking this blog will be about me and my journey coding but I’ll put the odd post in about something else and at the moment I’m really enjoying Real racing 3 at the moment.

Its a mobile racing game with game play and graphics to rival gran turismo or forsa. It really is that good and a mobile game!

I'm playing it while I write this, do a race write a bit more, do race and write a bit more.

I was talking to some guys at work about it the other day and getting them to take a look, its free also did I mention that. A mobile game that rivals gran turismo and its free!

While I’ve writing this I’ve been playing(until this bit, my battery died!) and looking online and I found a review by eurogamer that rated it 3/10!

WHAT!!! are you mad! This game is fantastic! As you read through the review he talk about how good the game is but he main issue is the in app purchases. And yes the game doesn’t have in app purchases but you don’t need them. He talks about the amount to upgrade and service you vehicles. Well durr! This is a necessary part of owning a car and it cost money.

I don’t know what some people except when they download a FREE app, it will have two things, Ad's and/or in app purchases. How do they except the company that has spend I don't know how money developing this game to make a profit if its free!

Some people need to wake up! Rant over!

If you like racing game I strong recommend Real Racing 3. I have never spend anything on this game I have got to level 47, have over 4 million worth of cars in my in game garage and completed 5 race series without spending anything on it! Not a penny! Its more than possible, if you don’t want to spend then don’t but give it a go its a great game.

update

After my frustrations with JavaScript, I have turned a corner. Watching the Tutorial I linked to in my last post, I have been able to understand a little bit more. I have now progressed on through my JavaScript course on codecademy. Not finished it yet but I’m getting on a lot better with it.

I edited my website a couple of times since uploading, changing so layout and adding bits of content. I have a couple of other thing in my head to put on there and will do when I get round to it.

I had a bit of look at treehouse the other day after seeing an advent. I wasn’t overly impressed I searched for reviews and the content looks limited and interface not overly friendly but one way to find out is take the free trial. Which I will do when I have the opportunity to take advantage of it. 

Bucky's Javascript Tutorials

I was on YouTube looking for JavaScript tutorials to help support my codecademy course. I written about issues I've had with grasping JavaScript.
On the two occasions where i have been stuck, these tutorials have really helped me out. 40 videos in total cover JavaScript topics. 

Check it out at buckysroom.org

My Website

Check out www.jwatkins.5gbfree.com

Its my website showing currently what i have learnt in HTML/CSS so far.

Notepad++

The first code editor I'm going to review for pc/windows is Notepad++.

This editor I downloaded on to my girlfriend laptop along with sublime to see how thing go and I really like how this work.

If I'm honest I used sublime exclusively until its started to tell me I needed to register. Sublime is nice but the registration is not happening at 70 quid!

I moved to notepad++ and I'm glad I did, Notepad++ is bright, user friendly, feature rich and generally nice to use.

As I said in my last post, I can’t offer anything of use to anyone who code regularly but as a beginner I think notepad++ is one of the nicest to use.

Extremely easy install and its Free! Can’t get much better than that. Download it here.

Although notepad++ doesn’t have a preview window you can easy save (ctrl+s) and run in browser (ctrl+alt+shift+r for chrome). Great for checking you changes. I have only used it for HTML so I’m unsure on it uses for python for example although it is compatible. 

Its worth a shot lol 

My new review series.

Welcome,

Updated my last post to make it look a lot better, posted via Blogger for android and haven't worked out if you can edit font etc.

Anyway the first post of the new series. I'll first outline was I'm going to review and then a new addition a mobile editors.
(I'm currently sat in lazer-force Leicester at a kids party, wife says I'm not allowed to play. Needed something to past the time.)

So which editors I'll review,

1.Notepad++

I was going to review more than just this one, but I was thinking about what I could write about than I decided I'm completely under qualified to write about anything of any use to any body who uses code editors proficiently. So I'm going to write about Notepad++ and why I like it. 

Which mobile editor? Although I think I have more to offer here, I only have an Android phone and can't provide a decent insight so I'll talk about the one I use.

1.Webmaster pro (only reviewing the pro version as I bought this prior to writing this series.)

New laptop

I'm have been looking at code editors for my new laptop. Buying a new laptop very exciting!

I was looking at either a Samsung series 7 ultra book or and macbook air. Both very nice laptop full of tech, good speed and plenty of power but both about a grand!

Looked at a couple of other options but still felt drawn to the macbook air. If I want to develop apple apps then mac is a must but at this stage I'm learning so spend so much on a bit of kit I am unlikely to use is pointless.

I found a great alternative on ebay however, a two year old lenovo thinkpad t410.  Now thinking two year old laptop is out of date already but this is an  ex business lease laptop so has 128gb ssd, 8GB ram and around 5ghz from its processor.

This lead me on to my next series of posts, I'm going to review some code editors.

Stay tuned!

Update

Just a quick unedited post of text to let you all know I'm back in the game.

After a few weeks of different issues, arising I'm know back putting more effort into my coding and my raspberry pi.

First project is to sort this print server out!