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GNU high school: teaching kids by contributing to open source

Liraz Siri - Mon, 2010/07/26 - 13:19 - 7 comments

Today I'd like to spotlight TurnKey's unlikely relationship with Chelsea School, a high school in suburban Maryland. I'm going to try to tell this story on two levels:

  1. The straightforward who-what-why.
  2. Why you should care.

I'll start with the latter. If it works maybe you'll stick around for the full story.

Kids collaborate with NASA, discover cave on Mars

Recently, a 7th grade science class, using the raw data from a NASA satellite, made a remarkable discovery: a mysterious cave on Mars.

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Tip: use custom search engines for efficiency

Alon Swartz - Mon, 2010/07/19 - 09:25 - 3 comments
I don't need to tell you how search improves our efficiency on the web, but using custom search engines can make your day even more efficient.
 
Configuring your browser to use custom search engines is a massive time gain, and improves your work flow.
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TurnKey Appliance Development Contest: An Open Source Summer Bonanza!

Liraz Siri - Mon, 2010/07/12 - 09:19 - 45 comments

Over the last few months donations have been trickling in and gradually piling up. Since there's a limit to how much beer we can reasonably drink we've been brainstorming ideas for using that money to help the project.

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django

Django navigation bar (active link highlighting)

Alon Swartz - Thu, 2010/07/08 - 11:49
Every web application needs a navigation bar. Common practice is to indicate to the user where he or she is, and is usually implemented by using a visual aid such as a bold type-face, different color or an icon.
 
I wanted an elegant, generic, extendable solution to "highlight" a link on the navigation bar without hardcoding URLs, using ifequals, or using template block inheritance by specifying a navbar block on each and every template (you'd be surprised, but the above mentioned are recommend often).
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