Chapter XIV - The Yarbro Family Chapter XIV Clyde Yarbro The Yarbro" family is indeed one of the oldest families in our county, they have been here since Colonial times. The name "Yarbro" has been spelled many ways through the years such as Yarbor-Yarboro-Yarbrough-Yarber-Yarberry-Yarbur-Yarburgh Yarbour-Yarbourugh-Yerby, and possibly others. The reason for these many spellings is primarily because many people could not read and write and when giving their name it had to be spelled phonetically, therefore the spelling was changed. Regardless of the spelling all the "Yarbro's" in America today are related in some manner and can trace their ancestory back to the Three "Yarbro's" who came to America from England. According to a chart that was prepared by The College of Arms, London, England, the original spelling was "Yarburgh or Yarborough" which have the same meaning, therefore they were used interchangeably. Yarborough really meant the place of residence, Borough in Anglo-Saxon days meant house or manor. Now Rufus M. Mr.
Robocode Home Use Linux over Windows with Xming Xming is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2), and comes packaged as Windows executables with easy-to-use installers. If all you want is an X Window Server -- and not a complete Unix-type environment -- Xming is a better choice than Cygwin/X. It also has the advantage of more active development -- Cygwin/X hasn't been updated since 2004, according to its homepage. Xming is trivial to install. Head to the Xming project page and find the releases section. You probably want to stick to the stable releases unless there's a feature in the recent development releases that you can't live without. Getting started The Xming installation procedure creates a desktop shortcut called XLaunch. What's with all the options? If you're going with the multiple programs scenario, choose "Multiple Windows." On the next window, choose the session type. In the next dialog, click "Run Remote" and click the radio button next to "Using PuTTY" and fill out the user and host information.
Teach yourself programming, part 1 | Get Real Part 1 of the TYP series. Read part 2. Since we’re finally getting in to summer, it’s a good time to think of some summer projects to keep the brain going. If you’ve thought about becoming a programmer, the summer is a great time to start tinkering and learning, so you can use those skills in next year’s OGPC, or even in some of the several robotics competitions! This is the first part in a series of posts for the summer, which should help get anyone off the ground in the programming world. Traditional stuff MIT OpenCourseWare’s Introduction to Computer Science and Programming—one of the most useful links here. Tutorials Book-style sites “Maths for (Games) Programmers”—very dense, but very usefulWikibook called “Video Game Design”Link to “The Game Maker’s Apprentice” website—the book is not free but there are some chapter previews on the siteInteresting but very mathy article called “Sin & Cos: The Programmer’s Pals!” Videos Websites, Blogs, etc. Games Be Sociable, Share!
12 Excellent Free Text Editors for Coders - Six Revisions You can make writing code as complicated as you want, but at the end of the day, all you really need is your favorite, trusty text editor. You can use a simple one like Microsoft’s Notepad, but oftentimes it’s helpful to have a text editor that has syntax highlighting/coloring, support for multiple languages, a robust find and replace feature, and other features and options that make writing code just a tad bit easier. If you’re in search of a good, free text editor – you’ve come to the right place. Below you’ll find 12 first-class free text editors that are designed with coders’ needs in mind. Whether you use a Windows, Mac, or Linux machine – you’ll find a few options here that will satisfy your code-authoring needs. (Windows) NOTEPAD++ is the premier replacement for Microsoft’s Notepad. Bluefish Editor (Mac, Linux) Bluefish Editor is a robust, open source text editor geared towards programmers and web designers. TextWrangler (Mac) Smultron Smultron is an easy-to-use text editor. Caditor
Boundless, the free alternative to textbooks, releases its content under Creative Commons Jane Park, January 22nd, 2013 Boundless, the company that builds on existing open educational resources to provide free alternatives to traditionally costly college textbooks, has released 18 open textbooks under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA), the same license used by Wikipedia. Schools, students and the general public are free to share and remix these textbooks under this license. Boundless has an entire section explaining open educational resources (OER) and how they use them. This chapter on Organismal Interactions references a Wikipedia article and several articles in The Encyclopedia of Earth. From Boundless’ FAQ, Is it really free? As you can see in the screenshot above, Boundless is already rolling out some of those premium features, including flashcards, study guides, and quizzes. For further reading, we recommend Slate’s article entitled, “Never Pay Sticker Price for a Textbook Again – The open educational resources movement that’s terrifying publishers.”
PCAL and LCAL: PostScript Calendar Programs Free Android Development Tutorials Free Android Development Tutorials Posted January 20, 2013 at 1:00 pm by Adam Outler When I learned how to program Java, I sat down for about a month watching YouTube videos and reading tutorials trying to understand what I was seeing. Because development is such a broad topic, and everyone thinks differently, one cannot have too many resources from which to absorb knowledge. Currently, Linux.com is hosting a multi-part series of developer tutorials aimed at teaching you how to learn how program an Android application. Android Programming for Beginners: Part 1 - This tutorial walks you through creating a basic 30 second countdown application which displays a number on-screen.Android Programming for Beginners: Part 2 - Adds a drop-down menu to the counter allowing for adjustments to the timerAndroid Programming for Beginners: User Menus - Introduces the ListView class and replaces the drop-down with a ListView Got any great sources to learn Android or Java programming? Advertisment YouTube
PC World - 10 Amazing Google Earth Add-Ons Google Earth puts an entire planet's worth of useful, relevant, and just plain weird content at your fingertips. As you saw in "The Strangest Sights in Google Earth," some things in this world are simply out of this world. To find such wonderful sights, you can call on a large library of Earth add-ons. As authors of the Web site Google Sightseeing, we see a lot of these add-ons and collections. What follows is a list of 10 of our favorites. How to Build an Android App Part 1: Setting up Eclipse and Android SDK – XDA TV In this video, Elite Recognized Developer AdamOutler covers several topics which will get you started developing your first Android application. This instructional video covers the entire process of creating and loading a new application onto your device. The video is intended for use by n00bs to get them up to speed, as well as by adept users who may have missed a step or two during SDK installation. Instructional Contents: Downloading Eclipse & SDKUse of Nyan Cat for passing time while downloadingInstalling Eclipse and SDKSetting up SDKIntegrating SDKUsing the SDK in EclipseQuick overview of the IDELoading an App onto android Downloads: Eclipse ADT Plugin: Eclipse Android repository for use in Eclipse Other Websites: [Warning: This video contains Nyan Cat.
CLICK Yeah, reviews of the live media are bullshit. And quickie reviews are useless. I get it. But if I don’t write this here and now, it won’t get written. So I downloaded all of the new Ubuntu 14.04 ISOs that interest me — regular Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu and Ubuntu GNOME. I am going to try them live on USB flash media to see what I like. I started with Ubuntu GNOME 14.04, which I do quite like. I still like the “as needed” way of adding virtual desktops in GNOME Shell, as I like alt-tab switching between every open application and not just those in the current desktop. Do the GNOME 3 animations make me nauseous? One thing I do know is that for one of my more pathetic use cases, a terrible (TERRIBLE!) So when I’m using that particular application, I can’t do it in GNOME Shell. But back to Ubuntu GNOME. I can see the polish in GNOME Shell, which is at 3.10 in this release. That’s OK. The Ubuntu Tweak Tool is installed by default, which makes configuration less than a totally uphill battle.
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