Wednesday August 20, 2008
Dana in Geeksville
Wednesday August 20, 2008
The Learning Curve Starts with Inspiration
In the last eight years that I've been involved in photography and programming, technology has shortened the learning curve in both areas by heaps and bounds. While software like Photoshop and Lightroom make it possible to crop, adjust white balance and exposure, bring out certain colors while down playing others, IDEs like NetBeans have made programming in Java and for web sites easier through the dragging and dropping of ready made components such as buttons, menus, HTML forms, and Ajax functionality.[Read More]
Posted at 10:02AM Aug 20, 2008 by dananourie in Learning | Comments[1]
Friday August 08, 2008
Beginner's Mind in Geeksville
Suzuki Roshi, a Zen master, coined the phrase Beginner's Mind. A Beginner's Mind is a mind free of preconceptions, free of judgments. It is a mind of innocence and openness, a mind ready to awaken. With a Beginner's Mind we see what is that rather than what we expect to see.[Read More]
Posted at 11:01AM Aug 08, 2008 by dananourie in Learning | Comments[1]
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