April 2013 – Page 2 – Aimee Maree Forsstrom

News

Research

By aimeemaree | April 11, 2013October 22, 2022 by aimeemaree

Currently undertaking an Information Technology Degree in Honours by Research with Southern Cross University. The chosen area of study is Web Site Navigation looking specifically at how distraction on a website can effect a persons uptake of information. During the months of August/September/October i ran an online game experiment on www.websitenavigation.org the data from the experiment has been analysed an a thesis and industry paper is being prepared. The expected release dates for the thesis…

News

Open Source Software

By aimeemaree | April 11, 2013October 23, 2022 by aimeemaree

Why I use open source code Because it is not about re-inventing previous concepts but utilising and improving upon proven concepts. Therefore reducing the time it takes to simply get it working and spend that time on making it suit the business needs. What about Intellectual Property? As a business you can ask yourself, do you want the cost associated with maintaining and developing your own framework or technology? When technology always changes and is…

Blockchain

bitcoin podcast

By aimeemaree | April 9, 2013October 22, 2022 by aimeemaree

The other day I was interviewed for a pod cast about BitCoin and its current roller coaster ride on the exchange. In the past few months we have seen the price of one BitCoin move from around $30 to up to highs of $200.. The current rise started around the same time as the Geek Crisis which is not in-coincidental. If you are unaware at what happened, basically the government came in and said they…

Inspiration Technology

Mozilla 15th Anniversary

By aimeemaree | April 2, 2013October 24, 2022 by aimeemaree

Today is Mozilla’s 15th Anniversary of keeping the web open, it is an amazing story and one that was born from the browser war days. What started off as Netscape and a battle between them and Internet Explorer who did at one stage try to and won a domination battle of the web. Well from there after defeat by Microsoft, Netscape decided to open source its code… from there the Mozilla project was born. I don’t think I need to tell…

Tutorials

15 things I love about the Web

By aimeemaree | April 2, 2013October 24, 2022 by aimeemaree

To celebrate Mozilla’s 15th Anniversary “”15 things I love about the web”” I created my own webpage talking about the 15 things I love about the web, using the great project thimble from Mozilla a cool little tool and awesome to help show kids how easy it is to make and publish their own web page¬† https://thimble.webmaker.org/p/lfed/ Make your own using Thimble another Awesome Mozilla web tool https://thimble.webmaker.org/en-US/