Comments for Marty Stepp

Comment on About by Akila

Akila — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:12:24 +0000

class name should be WellFormed@Akila

Comment on About by Akila

Akila — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:11:28 +0000

class DrawBox
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
System.out.println(“A well-formed Java program has”);
System.out.println(“a main method { and }”);
System.out.println(“braces.”);
System.out.println();
System.out.println(“A System.out.println statement”);
System.out.println(“has ( and ) and usually a”);
System.out.println(“String that starts and ends”);
System.out.println(“with a \” character.”);
System.out.println(“But we type \\\” instead !)”);
}

}

This is the code for “Exercise 1.3: WellFormed” question. But when it run on Practice-It! it shows this message.
You submitted a complete class. Most of Practice-It’s problems ask you to submit only a method, not an entire class/program. Remove the class header and submit only the method or code that was asked for.

How can i fix it ? thank you .

Comment on Why Internet Explorer Sucks by Marty Stepp

Marty Stepp — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 05:49:52 +0000

Sigh. You don’t get it, “L”. You’re right that I don’t develop pages for IE. But I don’t develop pages for *ANY* browser. Because that’s not how web development is supposed to work. You are supposed to develop to well-documented web standards, and then the page is supposed to work in every browser. In many cases, it does not work in IE. That’s their browser’s problem; they need to fix it. I’m not willing to hack up my web page with a bunch of kludges and special code just to deal with the fact that IE is a broken web browser. If you think that makes me a tool, so be it.

Comment on Why Internet Explorer Sucks by L

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:19:19 +0000

Be cool that you don’t develop things to work on IE. Whatever. I’ve never called anyone a tool before because I hate that term, but you are a tool.

Comment on Why Internet Explorer Sucks by s

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:20:31 +0000

Opps!
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Adobe-We-Love-Flash-and-HTML5-Equally-279478/
“CSS Regions are available in the latest versions of Chromium and Internet Explorer 10.”

Comment on Why Internet Explorer Sucks by Marty Stepp

Marty Stepp — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 19:33:26 +0000

“s”: It is undoubtedly true that IE9 is more secure than past IEs. (It would be hard for it not to be.) But this study is not definitive. The folks who did the study, NSS labs, are known paid Microsoft shills, given substantial compensation by Microsoft to perform this study. Their methodology has been questioned and criticized, set up in a way to make IE slant toward having a better number than other arguably “safer” browsers.

I encourage you to google (er, sorry, you probably use Bing!) about “NSS labs” and read about the accusations and questions regarding their credibility, as well as considering the general low credibility of paid studies.

Lastly, my main gripe against IE isn’t even its “safety” or security any more; it’s their poor conformance to web standards and their monopolistic behavior in the past that helped to crush competitors.

Comment on Why Internet Explorer Sucks by s

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 03:24:24 +0000

You are still avoiding the security issue:
http://www.zdnetasia.com/report-ie9-safest-browser-against-malware-62301643.htm

How much evidence does it take till you can admit that IE9 is really secure. You should be encouraging EVERYONE to use IE9 to minimize getting compromised.

Comment on About by Avi

Avi — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 23:53:51 +0000

Hey Marty,
Nice blog. I too just got a chance to learn ubuntu and came across your blog. Really nice hints .

But I had one question. On one of the hints on enable inking/drawing with ubuntu, I haven’t been able to find the option ‘Enable inking/drawing’ in compiz config settings manager. Could you please be more specific as to under what category did you find that option?

Thank you.

Comment on Why Internet Explorer Sucks by Ben

Ben — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 05:22:01 +0000

I’d like to take a moment and say thanks to Marty on this one.
I was in his class about a year and a half ago, and would like to explain a little about how it worked.

Since we didn’t focus on IE we were able to cover more content that we would not have had otherwise. To those who are saying that makes me less employable I would disagree. I am working on a site for a group at the UW that (if I say so myself) looks fucking fantastic in every other browser. I just started testing it in IE and it looks like all of my time and data was given to the browser, which then had a seizure on it and gave it back.

But seeing as how Marty taught us standards and not hacks I can figure out how to fix it. I’m going to be adding a separate css sheet for only IE. That took me all of 2 minutes to google, and if we had covered how to handle each incarnation of that browser I would have missed out on a lot of the stuff that I have just been using. Besides, his class is mostly for beginners and it covers a lot more than html and css. The timing just doesn’t work to have a week or however much would be needed to cover every way that IE might render your page differently and how to fix it

If someone is at the level where their living depends on their ability to code and design, they should be able to figure out how to deal with something like this on their own. When we are all starting out, we need to learn the rules not the exception. Thanks to Marty I know what I need to make websites.

All I need now is the patience to rework my appearance every time IE rears it’s ugly head.

Comment on Why Internet Explorer Sucks by s

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:56:01 +0000

you are still avoiding the new security posture:
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/07/internet-explorer-9-utterly-dominates-malware-blocking-stats.ars