Webmonkey is back!

June 1, 2008 · Filed Under Techno-Bab, internet · Comment 

WebmonkeyYou may remember how I lamented about the conking out of one of the most renowned web tutorials on the internet, The Webmonkey. I fact I posted twice about it here and here.

But the good news is that Webmonkey is back with vigour. It is re-emerging in the wiki format. Read about it in the all new Webmonkey website!

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Typing Characters That Are Not on the Keyboard

July 24, 2007 · Filed Under Linguistics · 1 Comment 

Excerpts from a “Get It Write” article:

Here are the typing codes for the legal “section” symbol and some of the most commonly used monetary symbols:

Alt + 0167 = § = section symbol
Alt + 0163 = £ = the British pound
Alt + 0128 = € = the Euro of the European Union
Alt + 0165 = ¥ = the Japanese yen

These are the codes for some of the most-often-used international diacritics (including the two mentioned above). Again, just hold down the Alt key and type the four-digit codes using the numeral key pad on the far right of your enhanced keyboard:

Alt + 0224 = à = lowercase a with grave accent
Alt + 0225 = á = lowercase a with acute accent
Alt + 0226 = â = lowercase a with circumflex
Alt + 0227 = ã = lowercase a with tilde
Alt + 0228 = ä = lowercase a with umlaut
Alt + 0230 = æ = lowercase ae diphthong (ligature)
Alt + 0231 = ç = lowercase c with cedilla
Alt + 0232 = è = lowercase e with grave accent
Alt + 0233 = é = lowercase e with acute accent
Alt + 0234 = ê = lowercase e with circumflex
Alt + 0235 = ë = lowercase e with umlaut
Alt + 0236 = ì = lowercase i with grave accent
Alt + 0237 = í = lowercase i with acute accent
Alt + 0238 = î = lowercase i with circumflex
Alt + 0239 = ï = lowercase i with umlaut
Alt + 0241 = ñ = lowercase n with tilde
Alt + 0242 = ò = lowercase o with grave accent
Alt + 0243 = ó = lowercase o with acute accent
Alt + 0244 = ô = lowercase o with circumflex
Alt + 0245 = õ = lowercase o with tilde
Alt + 0246 = ö = lowercase o with umlaut
Alt + 0249 = ù = lowercase u with grave accent
Alt + 0250 = ú = lowercase u with acute accent
Alt + 0251 = û = lowercase u with circumflex
Alt + 0252 = ü = lowercase u with umlaut
Alt + 0253 = ý = lowercase y with acute accent

Here is a miscellaneous list of other basic characters and symbols:
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Webmonkey, RIP: 1996 – 2004

March 22, 2004 · Filed Under General · Comment 

As feared by me in my earlier post, They finally pulled the plug.

Webmonkey, the site that turned humble Web developers into attention-grabbing authors, said last week it is closing down following a round of layoffs in the U.S. division of its parent company, Terra Lycos which runs, inter alia, Tripod, Wired News, Lycos etc.

The end came on 14th inst to the utter dismay of many an amateur wannabe webmaster like me for whom the friendly primate was the primary tutor in our toddling steps to put things on the web!

Miss you, pal!

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End of an era of the tekki banana!

February 21, 2004 · Filed Under General · 2 Comments 

Sadly, Yes :-( Webmonkey, RIP: 1996 – 2004

Webmonkey, the web site that made more folks tinker with web-building and back-end scripting than any teaching school could do is shutting down. We’ll all miss the “smart, sassy friend you wish you had”, as described by the Editorial founder June Cohen .

Webmonkey specialised in a zazzy, informal style of the writings on the site devoid all kinds of punditry. The site’s editors ditched the dry, lecturelike tone of other tech publications in favor of a flip, funny approach - the language Web geeks use amongst themselves.

The pain of the changing pattern of cyber-commerce!

Sad, sad indeed!

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