Export Wiki Content to an IMS Content Package
WikiEducator can export a collection of Wiki pages to an IMS content package, which can then be imported into Blackboard (or any other LMS). This is a great feature! Learning content can be authore...
If I ever need to convert content for import into Blackboard again?????
...... I am going to build the converter with a genetic algorithm, sit back and watch it evolve! This is inspired by Genetic Algorithm in Python to Generate File Converters.
Future Directions for Sakai
A Sakai roadmap leading up to Version 3 (via mfeldstein.com), due in 2013. More specific V3 details are also available. A few questions come to mind. Can we wait till 2013? Will that be what we rea...
How to Attract, Retain, and Develop Higher Ed Technology Staff
As a Ed Technology staff member, I thought the points covered in this EDUCAUSE presentation entitled "How to Attract, Retain, and Develop Higher Ed Technology Staff" were perfectly valid....
Make Your Own UniTube?
Need a YouTube clone, installed and only accessible within your own organization/educational institution or you may just be after creating your own genre specific social media site on the internet?...
Hilarious - How not to use Powerpoint?
Totally hilarious YouTube vid illustrating common Powerpoint mistakes.
Sign of the times: The Wired Tech Layoff Tracker
With rumors of layoffs at even Microsoft, I guess the Wired Tech Layoff Tracker is Mashup that best defines these early days of 2009.
Visualizing interaction in an online chat/meeting
Flashmeeting from Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University, produces visualizations of meeting activity. Very impressive - take a look at an example. I recommend the paper from the group: "...
Amazing 12 year old presenting in jQuery
The awesome coding skillz of a 12 year old. Watch it -- you may even learn jQuery.
Academic Using Computer - Dick, Alien Physicist, 3rd Rock from the Sun
Watch and laugh - Dick is hilarious as the Academic who can't use a computer. Watch Dick over use technology in Part 2 - way to make fun of webcams and online recorded lectures. Part 1: Part 2:
Financing to get software!!!!
I guess, given that enterprise software can be pricy, financing has always been an option. Though I never thought I'd see the day when a software company is actually lending or facilitating the loa...
Lady Gaga No 1 on iTunes Aus again with Poker Face
Wow -- Lady Gaga is amazing but never thought she would have this success so fast. Poker Face is NO 1. ...And Yay for Chace Crawford being in the vid.
An annoying IE Javascript Bug!!!
Trying to finish some code - mostly Java but have had to write some fairly simple Javascript. Test the code in Firefox, it all works. I test in IE and I get an error. I start to debug in IE - line ...
Gemini Division Breaks Screenwriting Rules!
The fundamental rule of screenwriting, as I have been taught, is to "show and not tell". Essentially it means that a screenwriter should use actions to get a point across instead of simply describi...
Beautiful Dirty Rich
It is a great time for Lady Gaga to release her vid for Beautiful Dirty Rich. Yes, Gaga burns and eats money in the midst of an economic crisis. Great visuals, unique song - "Honey, but we got no m...
6 jQuery Plugins to use within your content in a Learning Management System
The beauty of this list is that no server side coding is needed. 6. Display Del.icio.us feeds with the aptly titled Del.icio.us Feeds Displayer. 5. Display RSS and ATOM feeds with jFeed. 4. Disp...
Friday Fun: You're gonna use a VB GUI to do what?????
Via geekhero - this is an absolute gem from CSI New York. Now really, TV shows need to actually have a Programmer as a technical consultant. Hire me, Hire me!!!
Widgets make better shareable Learning Objects
Edusprouts is a blog that showcases educational widgets, known as Sprouts built with Sproutbuilder. Sprouts are interactive flash movies that can be embedded just about anywhere (including the LMS)...
Experience WII - Awesome Internet AD
I love the Experience WII Ad - it shakes up the rectangular ad banner in a big way. It is quite disruptive, but gets away with it. Good internet marketing. A lot of ppl I chat to, just don't get in...
A Popstar that can't LipSync!
Yes, due to a technical glitch, Lady Gaga had to lipsync to Just Dance. Lady Gaga can't lipsync very well, which really is not a bad thing. Lada Gaga sings well live - just accept it.
The cutest YouTube Vid ever - Paranoia Mix
This is such a cute, yet creative vid. If there is only one YouTube vid you watch this year, make sure its the Paranoia Mix.
Learn Java - In an Online Interactive Environment
JavaBat, provides a unique way to learn Java in an online enviroment ie no SDK or IDE to install - just a way to concentrate on the syntax and get immediate feedback. I'd clasify JavaBat as a progr...
Does the tag cloud from my blog describe me?
Mmm -- I think it does, perfectly too.....
Nobody wants to be a Rock Star jQuery Programmer
The new jQuery site design with the rock star slogan caused uproar and now its gone. If you missed the fuss, Ajaxian has a screengrab. I don't get the fuss! I don't get why the rock star banner was...
Aneesha Bakharia Created a Personal Lifestream on Dipity
What does Lady Gaga say about Madonna?
Lady Gaga was on TRL, MTV. Kinda funny that she described Madonna with the same words that she would use to describe herself - "Who really can mess with Madonna? Nobody ... and her stage and her vi...
Lip-syncing at the Olympics Opening Ceremony
Aparently the real 7 year old singer was not cute enough. What is the world coming to? These are 7 year old kids - both look cute!!!!
You know you are not programming complex algorithms when....
You know you are not programming complex algorithms when you only need to use i as an iteration variable. What ever happened to j and k? At uni when doing engineering I used i, j and k as I usually...
Give It 2 Me (Remixes) - EP
iTunes has Give It 2 Me Remixes - EP. Remixes are sooooo good. I have missed official Madonna remixes and was super amazed to find this EP. Now, I must ask why a set of remixes is called an EP? I...
Guess the singer?
Can you guess the singer from this vid circa 2006, without doing an internet search?
myvu - iPod Video Glasses
Can i get these myvu glasses on a prescription? The perfect cure for meeting boredom.
29 Brilliant Music Videos
Smashing Magazine, best known for their n of the best techniques collections eg 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn't Live Without. This year, they have been branching out with n of the best album covers ...
Mahara - Open Source ePortfolios
Mahara has developed in leaps and bounds as a viable ePortfolio alternative since I last took a look about a year ago. I particularly like the ability to create Views, that bundle artefacts togethe...
Sustainability design with Second Life as a modeling tool
Feel sceptical about the 'learning' value of Second Life, then check out these examples of houses/buildings modeled for sustainable design.
Presenting "Visualising Social Network Formation" at BbWorld AsiaPac ’08
I'll be heading to Adelaide to present at BbWorld AsiaPac ’08. The presentation is entitled "Visualising Social Network Formation", and covers work done in collaboration with Dr Shane Dawson on com...
What do Terminator 4: Salvation and Batman have in common?
Christian Bale stars as John Connor in Terminator 4. Christian Bale is the actor to play the son of Michael Biehn (Kyle Reese). Terminator is one of my all time fav movies, so I can't wait till it ...
Thoughts on Blackboard NG
Um - the NG stands for Next Generation, a new way to say BB 2.0 but as we can't because BB NG is actually BB 9. Ok so I just watched the Blackboard NG videos. Phil Chatterton does a great ...
So what's this blog about anyway?
My blog topics are diverse! Am I the only elearning, programming, Madonna blogger? Probably. I'm not sure about my readership, but I hope as a subscriber that you don't mind. It is all in keeping w...
Top 5 Memorable Lady Gaga Video Moments (so far)
We are only a few minutes into the career of Lady Gaga and already we have so many memorable moments. 1. The video for Just Dance. So many mirror balls of all sizes. Was that a Mirror ball bra??? ...
I won't buy "Life With My Sister Madonna"
Christopher Ciccone, who was once Madonna's closest sibling has written a tell all over exaggerated book called "Life With My Sister Madonna". How could he do this to his sister???? I def...
Eat Clean Fruit - Get SafeGaurd Fruit and Vegetable Wash
I like to eat friut, but sometimes worry about bacteria, dirt and chemicals that may be present of the skin. An Australian product has been developed to ensure that your friut and veggies are clean...
Just Dance to the Remixes
I just bought "Just Dance (Remixes) - EP" from iTunes. Yes folks - REMIXES. Thats 4 remixes for me to listen to. I say yay to the return of the Remix - you may recall my post on the Death of the Re...
Just Dance!
I don't do this often... Actually I have never done this before!!!! Lady Gaga's "Just Dance" is to 2008 what Madonna's "Everybody" was to 1982 - the start of something big, perhaps!!!
Can you spot the error on this Website?
Are you smart enough to discover the error on this website?
Use a CSS Framework in your next project
2005 was the year of AJAX frameworks. 2008 seems to be the year of CSS frameworks. I think CSS frameworks are a good Why???? Well they provide a great starting point and are easily tweaked. I am cu...
Time to say goodbye to Notepad
Its true - I no longer rely on Notepad for coding anymore. Truth is I'm finding Visual Studio and Eclipse more and more reliable and feature rich than ever before. Some cool new features in Eclipse...
Dynamics CRM Tip: Determine Form and View URLs with Fiddler
All views and forms in Dynamics CRM are directly accessible via a url. I've usually had to click ctrl+N to view the url of a form opened in a window. Now I just fire up Fiddler, and refer to the lo...
I bought a K'NEX Renegade Run Coaster
I moment I saw the K'NEX Renegade Run Coaster, I knew I had to buy it immediately. So now I have a coaster to build (with 675 pieces). I'll post pics when I am done. I'm kinda thinking K'NEX is c...
Visualizing the PLE
Scott Leslie just posted a nifty diagram of his PLE ecosystem. Actually got me thinking about building a tool to allow users to easily express their PLE ecosystem, collate and syndicate activity.
bEATing the Browser Opposition
8.3 million downloads of Firefox 3. Awesome!!!! It seems the IE team have sent the Firefox team a cake to celebrate the release of Firefox 3. It was nice of the IE team, but why did the cake have ...
Using learning design as a framework for supporting the design and reuse of Open Educational Resources
Grainne Conole of e4inovation.com is the co-author of a must read paper entitled "Using learning design as a framework for supporting the design and reuse of Open Educational Resources". ...
Sketches of Personal Learning Environments (PLE)
Scott Leslie has collated a variety of PLE diagrams. Sure to come in useful for presentations, roadmap plotting and just plain old inspiration. Made me actually think about what my PLE looks like...
37 signals continue to innovate - Backpack Journal
Think of Backpack Journal as Twiter/Facebook Status for Projects. Another great piece of work - so simple, so well designed, so useful. See it in action.
The Adventures of Bollywood Blackboardwala
Nine totally hilarious episodes of Bollywood Blackboardwala documents the Blackboard patent saga pretty well with clips from a bollywood movie. My favorite is Blackboardwala World 2008!!!
3D Printing
I had no that 3D printers even existed - they print 3D models. CAD files are rendered into static or working 3D models. This type of technology makes me wish I had more projects that could use this...
Hey - Kittens need to exercise too
Two kittens try to run on a treadmill - captured, uploaded and shared with the world on YouTube.
Custom Search Engine for Dynamics CRM
I just made a custom Google search for Dynamics CRM, with the hope to improve Dynamics CRM information sharing. Please contribute sites to include in the search.
Popfly Game Creator
The Popfly Game Creator allows games to be created with no code. This is just awesome and Adam Nathan and his team have done an excellent job. I am pondering EDU game possibilities.
What ever happened to the Multi in Media?
In the mid to late 1990's, multimedia was all the go. We had images, video, still images, photographs, animation, gratuitous transitions, audio, music and text. As at 2008, media is quite segmented...
I can haz free ICONS
I just realized that I've managed to tag all free icon libraries that have crossed my web surfing path in the last year. Its actually quite a useful list: ICON Libs tagged by Aneesha.
Screen Scraping to the Extreme - Try Your Potluck
SIMILE, the team behind the awesome Timeline and Timeplot embedded visualization tools are also working on making mashups where no API exists super easy. Potluck allows web pages to be screen scrap...
Cohere - Idea Mapping with a EDU 2.0 Twist
It must be a good day - I have after all encountered two EDU 2.0 apps. Cohere, from Open Uni UK, takes concept/idea mapping to a new collaborative level. Add make connections and then discover rela...
Combine Flash EDU Activities with the Collaborative Features of a Wiki
Webducates' Dragster fits the bill as a EDU 2.0 app. Check out this example activity where users can not only classify existing topics but add new ones as well. The emphasis here is on the fact tha...
A New Way to Track Your Time
Use Twitter. Send am email. Log it from your iphone/ipod nano. Not conventional, but if you are addicted to Twitter and love to send email, keeptempo just might work for you! The 37signals IN/O...
Silverlight Seems to be Coming of Age
Silverlight seems to finally be ready to compete with Flex/Flash. Recent sightings that have led me to this conclusion: PNG Image generation Deep Zoom capabilities Graph/Network Visualiza...
DHH Shares A secret to making money online
I love DHH presentations. This time he shares A secret on making a profit with online apps - Price! Really I would never have guessed.
Madonna Embraces YouTube!
I threatened to only buy the new Madonna music on iTunes and not on CD as well, if Madonna did not embrace YouTube. It seems Madonna has embraced YouTube. I have power and influence as a Madonna fa...
Get OUT of LMS (um - jail) free - LMS Content Migration
Scott Leslie has consolidated a list of 'get out of LMS (um - jail) free' content migration tools. Its a good sign that more tools are becoming available and hopefully this will put an end to propr...
Facebook and Del.icio.us take social bookmarking to new heights
I must confess to using Del.icio.us an awful lot but rarely by actually going to the website. The reason is simple, the Del.icio.us Firefox extension encapsulates browsing, bookmarking and tagging ...
I Love Public Holidays
If you happen to live in a country that does not have many Public Holidays, you should move to Queensland, Australia. Count em and weep! ..and yes if they fall on a weekend, we get Monday off!
Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics
It is strange what a Google search for "Semiconductor Physics" returns these days: Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics. I am trying to get back into electronics after 12 years away and I...
The BlueScreen of Death Returns
Even Windows Vista has a BlueScreen of death and it is even a Problem Event Name...
Convert HTML to XSL-FO
Want a fast and cheap (ie free) way to prototype XSL-FO? HTML2fo converts basic HTML docs to XSL-FO. It does quite a good job too. Also a great way to learn FO syntax by converting from simple HTML.
Dynamics CRM Tutorial: Improving Workflow - Add a Create Case Button to the Contact Grid
Usability is an important consideration in any CRM installation and customization project. A proven method to improve usability is to reduce the number of steps/clicks to get something done. Within...
Dynamics CRM Tip: ISV Config Examples - Customizing Menus, Toolbars, NavBars, etc
The ISV.Config file is an xml file that allows menu items, menus, toolbar buttons and navbar items to be added to your instance of Dynamics CRM. After a fresh install of Dynamics CRM or an upgrade,...
Madonna and WB - Please embrace YouTube
The vid for 4 minutes to save the world had to be taken down from YouTube. Madonna, please embrace YouTube. Please, or I'll only buy Hard Candy on iTunes and not on CD as well!
The Power of Recommendations
Amazing just how good the Amazon.com recommendation system is getting. The books in this screen grab would really define me to a T this moment, but there is one missing item. Unfortunately to get t...
Great New Gmail Feature!
This is soooo awesome. You will love this new gmail feature. Check it out now and send those 10 emails.
OK, so the Java Guys have a sense of humour as well
Not to be out done by that Ruby guys on April 1, it seems that Microsoft is going to purchase SpringSource. I can't wait to use Spring Beans to configure Windows - I can wire up my own Operating Sy...
Finally Some April 1 Fun
The Rails community has a sense of humour. Check out acts_as_asp.net plugin. To truely appreciate the joke, you have to have coded ASP.NET and then discovered Rails in all its DRYness. ....So yes -...
A definition of Pedagogy finally....
A quote from a well known Academic, "pedagogy is a term used to describe the unendless waffling (over many many years) in the academia world to try to justify the fact that they don't really u...
Using the IE Developer Toolbar to Help Customize Microsoft Dynamics CRM
There are lots of tips on how to use JScript to customize Dynamics CRM at client-side runtime. Examples include removing the Sub-Account navbar or loading a form tab by default. While these customi...
Image Editing on the Web finally comes of age!
Yay - Adobe has released Photoshop Express. A few years ago this would have seemed impossible, but the boundaries of the Web Browser rectangle are constantly being pushed. Still the features are a ...
Widgets for the LMS
My happiest career moments have come from developing add-on's for Learning Management Systems, so it is not hard to see why Michael Feldstein's post on Widgets used to extend the LMS brought a smil...
Fossil Watches are cool
I love fossil watches. I just got one for my Birthday :-)
Cayra - New Mindmapping App on the Block
Cayra is a new mindmapping/concept mapping app that produces very nice organic looking diagrams. It is built with .NET, free and only 3.5 Mb (but remember you'll need .NET 3.5 installed as well). G...
How Large can a Query Get?
I now believe there are no limits after viewing this huge query....
A Rather Pleasant Silverlight Experience
1. I installed Silverlight 2 in a few seconds. 2. It just works in Firefox. 3. Not an error in sight. 4. I tried the DeepZoom example and it worked in Firefox. The DeepZoom ativity is useful ...
The Power of Nanotechnology Morphs into Action
Do you know what superhydrophobic is? If not check out this vid on the Nokia Morph Concept. Seriously, this vid is very interesting- imagine a device that can morph into what ever you want it to be...
The Sorry State of PDF Generation in .NET
I've been trying to use XSL-FO from various .NET components to render PDF without much success. Solutions seem either too pricey, are Java ports (iText and FOP) that have not been active since 2003...
Did somebody say 'Web Rich Editor'?
I've had nothing to do with a 'Web-based Text Editor' for over a year. I feel lucky! If you are not so lucky, check out this review of 9 popular editors.
A Monumental YouTube Video
It runs for 1 minute and 6 seconds. It has mostly still frames. Still frames of a logo. A logo for not just any movie. A Disney movie that in its 3rd iteration will debut on the big screen. It's be...
So You Think You Can Dance (um Program)?
New approaches to teaching programming skills are always welcome, it is after all a difficult skill to master. I am pleased to announce a method that definitely has the moves. A plus side is that t...
Rationale - Concept Mapping for Critical Analysis
A couple of years ago I encountered software to assist with "Critical Thinking" and "Analysis" called Reason!Able. I am glad to report that this Australian software product has ...
...and Another EDU Patent on the Horizon
Even if you are over the whole edu patent thing, you must read about this new edu patent lawsuit in which 5 profit making universities are being sued. Whatever is the world coming to? I am even mo...
A Shocking Tale - Think Twice before you enter your Password
The tale of a programmer who used reflector to view the code of a gmail account achiever tool and discovered that it was programmed to harvest your username and password. I guess I will think twice...
Defined by my Del.icio.us tags?
I am aneesha on Del.icio.us: http://del.icio.us/aneesha Yesterday I did something strange! I tagged 2 items with the tag 'electronics'! Jeez something even got tagged with the cryptic 'fpga' - ie ...
37signals is a great place to work!
It's fantastic to see a company (37signals) take a step in 'work less but achieve more and be happy' space. Happier, stress free employees not only achieve more but are more creative and competitiv...
Putting the Blackboard Patent into Perspective
Read "Anatomy of a Bogus Patent" and then feel sick with disbelief if you actually build applications to help people "learn". C'mon this is EDUCATION! Feel sick??? OK now read ...
Book: Collective Intelligence in Action
Another book on Collective Intelligence that I must have. Seems to cover a lot of ground and is supported by useful Java code examples. Looking thru the TOC, I don't think this is as advanced algor...
Seismic Activity in Eclipse
No - Eclipse is not shaking up my world! I'm just impressed by the Eclipse extensions made by Kelman Technologies. They have developed seismic processing tools. I used to love geography/earth scien...
10 Things to Look for in a Programmer
Another good list to follow if you are hiring programmers!
ETL 1 TeraByte in 30 minutes
Wow - Microsoft and Unisys claim to have the current record. Even the the previous record of 45 minutes is astonishing. ....now if only I could have achieved speeds like that while automating...
EDU Developers are rare but.....
I sometimes come across people like me. People who are defined by tags as diverse as "Learning Design", "Eclipse" and "SQL Server" like Andrew Brasher who works on Com...
Ad's in your Video!
Adsense is coming to a web video near you! Ah - that's what has been missing in YouTube vids!
Gotta love em 'Hello World' thru the ages examples
Ever type 'Hello World' in Word, save the file to HTML and then take a look at the source code!!!! You'll be amazed at the bloat. Ajaxian has just posted a blog post on Javascript driven 'Hello Wo...
Processing - Visualization made easy
I came across a Del.icio.us network explorer that was built in Processing - a visualization toolkit. I took a look at the code, with the aim of extending the application to plot the structure of so...
Blackboard vs Desire2Learn Patent Trial Day 1
Well the Blackboard vs Desire2Learn trial has begun, there is a Jury and the first witness is in the process of testifying. I await the verdict anxiously.
Polaroid - no more
I guess the end for the instant polaroid photos was inevitable, with Digital cameras, the ability to easily share photos online (or via mms) and print photos either via your own portable photo prin...
Revolutionise Project Management
Use a Niko-niko calendar to gauge the mood of your team Rotate unhappy team members. If you keep making em do things that they hate, you risk losing good staff forever. Use burndown charts Burn...
Build a Robot to Solve a Rubics Cube
Yep -- somebodies built a Mindstorms Robot to solve Rubics Cube! Don't believe me - heres the vid to prove it.
Read Michael Statons Blog - Edumorphology
It's not often that I read an edu blog and agree 100% with the authors views. Well I am pleased to say that I agree 100% with Michael Staton's views on the current state of blast from the past edu...
Asteroid - Zooms by Earth
The closest Asteroid to fly-by earth in almost 2000 years - WOW! By close we mean approx 500, 000 kilometers - which is a pretty close shave...
GIT - New Version Control on the Block
GIT -- a lightweight super fast version control system originally developed by Linus Torvalds. If you have time to experiment check it out. Branching and merging are meant to be super simple. I lik...
O'Reilly Maker - Make Your Own Cover
You know those O'Reilly book covers with the animal pics, well now you can make your own with O'Reilly Maker. I really like the cover for Hybernate :-)
LMS = Content + Activities
Blackboard has been making acquisitions: Xythos, a content management system that already powers the Blackboard Content System and an Emergency-Notification system. I have a problem with an LMS nee...
Patterns of Enterprise Architecture
I bought "Patterns of Enterprise Architecture" while shopping at Borders today. I've been meaning to purchase the Martin Fowler book for a while, but never quite managed to add it to my Amazon.com ...
More n of the best CSS techniques
I can't seem to master enough CSS techniques!!!! If you ever think you'll need to implement a block hover effect, tabs, A-Z indexes, pagination, quotes, sitemaps and more - check out 101 CSS Techni...
The Wonders of Virtual PC
I'm just getting into Microsoft Dynamics CRM and was looking for a way to run up the trial locally. Unfortunately I don't have Windows 2003 or SQL Server 2005 licenses. Luckily I stumbled upon the ...
Situational Learning Examples
The University of Adelaide has a situational project underway. So what exactly is situational learning? I've not heard the term before! It seems to encompass all things Learning Designer cool - sim...
The Blackboard VS Desire2Learn Trial is Coming Soon
Some resolution seems finally to be on its way from the Blackboard Vs Desire2Learn patent infringement trial. The trial starts Feb 11, 2008 and will run for approximately 2 weeks. Good luck Desire...
Online Photo Sharing in Plain English
Common Craft do for Photo Sharing what they did for Social Networking, Social Bookmarking, RSS and Wiki's - that is explain the concepts in a way anybody can understand. Common Craft have a wonder...
Australian ePortfolio Symposium 2008 - Brisbane (7 & 8 Feb)
QUT is hosting an ePortfoilio Symposium. I'd be interested to hear about the tools showcase. Hopefully some of my friends at QUT will share their observations :-)
Bill Gates Last Day at Work
Kinda funny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr5w3X4R8b4
How to recognise a good programmer?
This is a great article - Read it, particularly if you are recruiting programmers. I fulfill all of the Positive Indicators :-)
Getting Started with Ruby on Rails 2: Making a Link Manager (Part 1)
In this tutorial the basics of creating a very simple Link Manager that uses an SQLite database in Rails 2.02 will be covered. This will hopefully be the first in a series of many tutorials highlig...
What is a Support Vector Machine (SVM)?
There was a time when all I spoke about was SVMs! That was a fun time and perhaps I should have continued my PHD and not gotten consumed by my day job (where I built a tool to translate content to ...
Looking for a good source code formatter for WordPress?
Any suggestions? I'm trying Syntaxhighligter-Plus: [sourcecode language='ruby'] puts "Madonna Rules!" [/sourcecode]
The Movie with No Title
First I saw the poster with just a release date at the Cinema when I went to see "No Country for Old Men" - It was intriguing as the poster had no title. Then when I went to see "I am Legend", a tr...
Janison & Woollongong Uni to Build Next Gen Learning Systems
Janison, an Australian company that builds Learning Management Systems will be teaming up with the University of Woollongong on an ARC grant to "create strategies and tools to help university teach...
My Top 4 Firefox Extensions
I've installed lots of Firefox extensions over the past few years but there are only 4 that I use regularly and can't live without: Firebug The best Javascript and CSS debugger ever. I love the w...
Buy Hot cross buns on Dec 31 2007
Yep, Just saw hot cross buns at Woolworths, Carindale. Woolworths is letting seasons clash! On New Years Eve, it seems preparation is already being made for Easter.
Have you done any XML Situps lately?
I sadly encountered the XML Situps pic about a year and a half ago - It was funny but I could not laugh! You see I was knee deep in the middle of porting content from a proprietary (Coldfusion base...
2007 - The Year in Music
In a year that lacked 'groundbreaking' five things stuck out for me: Just how many times can Timberland scream Yeah/Hey over tracks? Um -- I guess its too late to apologize now! Delta Goodrem's ...
Smashing Magazine - Highlights of 2007
Well the n of the best lists from Smashing Magazine were certainly a highlight for me during 2007. My favs included: Data Visualization: Modern Approaches I have a growing interest in visualizati...
Edu Blog Awards -- The Winners
.... and the Edu Blog Winners are ..... Sadly I don't subscribe to feeds from any of the winners, but that may change soon.
How to wrap and un-wrap gifts?
Xmas is almost upon us. Just in time for Xmas comes this instructional vid (delivered via YouTube), that promises to teach you how to gift wrap your gifts using 3 times the required amount of paper...
Art is anything you can get away with!
Watching a very interesting documentary - NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell. Wow -- I had no that Disco, Rap and Punk were all brewing in NY in 1977 -- talk about a single year having such major cultu...
Add-ons for IE! Really!! I had no idea!!!
I've tried to ignore IE but sadly it has a large user base and is the browser of choice for 'enterprisey-type establishments'. I love FireFox and I am addicted to numerous extensions (FireBug, Scr...
Somethings been missing in PDF's
Yep -- I've always felt like something was missing, when reading PDF files! I'd often be reading a document and think to myself - "Mmmm, No annoying ads". ... but thanks to Adobe, PDF's will soon ...
USQ - The only Australian University in the OpenCourseWare Consortium
USQ has 9 subjects/units available under the OpenCourseWare hat. More importantly USQ appears to be the only Australian university in the OpenCourseWare Consortium. I wonder why more Australian uni...
Look - A real bug in the computer!
The first computer bug was a real bug - a moth. The system was debugged to remove the moth and the moth even got added to the log sheet. So I am thinking the first bug was the easiest to fix. Deb...
Ruby - up to 9 on TIOBE Index
... and so the popularity of Ruby increases yet again - Check out the November 2007 TIOBE Index.
Futurelab - Create A Scape, Exploratree, Moovl & Newtoon
Stumbled across some refreshing and amazingly creative edu apps created by Futurelab. They seem to have pulled of creating applications that take advantage of mobile devices, games based learning a...
Heatmaps
I first encountered the Heatmap visualization in CrazyEgg. At the time I thought it was a nifty way to draw attention to popular sections of a site. Today via Ajaxian, I discovered an interesting j...
Oracle Deploys JRuby on Rails app - Oracle Mix
JRuby is a way into the enterprise for Rails. :-) .... and believe me the enterprise needs Ruby and Rails and well yes Oracle too .... Glad to see Sun and Oracle embrace Rails and Ruby so passion...
Facebook Development and Visual Studio Express
I've loved the Express Editions of Visual Studio for a while now - they get the job done, are not bloated and are a fraction of the Visual Studio install. This makes the Facebook Development ToolKi...
Bye Bye Authorware
Adobe have announced that they wont be developing a new version of Authorware. I guess this means the end, unless Authorware is made open source. The only real way for Authorware to survive would h...
TinyMCE 3 - WYSIWYG Revamped
There's a new version of TinyMCE. Don't look for too many new features, but you can look for valid XHTML output. Three months ago I would have tried the copy from Word cleanup, but as I no longer ...
EDU RAGE
Ok so Blackboard have launched a new site catering to extension developers called EduGarage. ....So why is it that when I read EduGarage, I actually think EduRage??????? Anyway the site looks good...
