Archive for June, 2008
Friday, June 27th, 2008
Dan Servos has the first visuals from his grade stats plugin for Moodle.
After a week of hard work, Qi Yang has plugged into Eclipse.
Eva Wong has discovered that structuring projects from scratch is hard, but now has a handle on the data she's going to visualize.
Joseph Yeung is making steady ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
...instead of paperwork: Jon Udell's post about turning internet feeds into TV feeds sparked half a dozen ideas in the first few paragraphs.
As did this TinEye widget from Idee. *sigh*
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
We've hit another "what should it do?" question in DrProject, and I'd welcome opinions from readers. As I've mentioned previously, the new ticketing system for DrProject is going to be extensible. Each project's tickets will initially contain just four fields: sequence number, date created, creator ID, and one ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
...but this talk on Eucalyptus by Rich Wolski is pretty damn good...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
The one-year anniversary edition of the Toronto Girl Geeks Dinner is tomorrow night (Wednesday, June 25) --- see their site for details. It's a great event for networking (or so I'm told); I'll try to do a better job next time about getting the word out...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
...can be solved by adding another level of indirection, or so the saying goes. We're already seeing browsers serving that purpose by running applications like spreadsheets and word processors that used to sit directly on top of the operating system; the announcement about Project Coverage is yet another example of ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
My most recent grant proposal was shot down in its first review. Yes, I know, the competition for NSERC funding is increasingly fierce, but dammit, this would have helped a lot of scientists do a lot of good research, and I'm willing to bet that the ones that are finally ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Kosta Zabashta has posted a screenshot of a new interface for navigating IRC logs in DrProject. It displays a sidebar of the project's event log; clicking on an event takes you to the portion of the IRC log closest in time to the chosen event. Feedback is, as always, ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
AudiOdyssey (via DDJ) is "...an experimental computer game designed to be accessible to both the visually impaired community and mainstream gamers. The user stars as Vinyl Scorcher, an up-and-coming DJ, on his quest to get club patrons dancing. Swinging the Nintendo Wii controller to the beat, Vinyl lays down the ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
It is (just barely) worth wading through Zed Shaw's self-important vulgarity to see how he finds out what has been done to Ruby to fix some vulnerabilities.
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