Archive for the ‘Web technology’ Category
Thursday, June 1st, 2006
My district is evaluating options for a new system to maintain our Web pages. We had a demo of SchoolCenter a couple days ago and it didn't look too bad. I found their templates to be pretty unattractive, but they're probably better than most schools' Web pages. While poking around ...
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Thursday, March 9th, 2006
I'll never forget when I first figured out why Microsoft was scared of the Internet. I had just built my first Web application, an online event scheduling system for my old school district that would display information about upcoming sporting events, concerts, etc. That was the moment when I realized ...
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Monday, January 2nd, 2006
I feel the need to geek out and do some programming every once in a while. My recent days off providing a great opportunity so I decided to implement an idea that's been rattling around in my brain for a while. We've got seven elementary schools in my district and, ...
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2005
Dan McCreary has been around the block a time or two in his years of working in the technology industry. He's worked at cutting edge technology companies and started companies of his own. His latest project was building a data dictionary for the Minnesota Dept of Education.
Our conversation centered on ...
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Saturday, October 29th, 2005
Seen at Digg: Del.icio.us has added a built-in media player for bookmarks to MP3 files. (Notice the blue triangle next to the top bookmark.) A nice little feature for bookmarking podcasts.
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Thursday, October 20th, 2005
I posted about Flock a little over a month ago and wondered if it would be the first Web 2.0 browser. I downloaded the first pre-alpha-developer release today after getting an email about it and so far it's looking pretty interesting. This is definitely not a release for the faint ...
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2005
Opera announced today that their browser is now free (but not open source). This would be just another browser option if Opera weren't so good. It's always been the fastest browser out there and their support of a "presentation mode" makes it an outstanding choice for presentations. With Opera Show ...
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Wednesday, September 14th, 2005
I saw it in Wired today in an article titled "Killer Buzz Flocks to New Browser." Could Flock be the first of a new generation of Web 2.0 browsers? According to the Wired article:
Flock advertises itself as a "social browser," meaning that the application plays nicely with popular web services ...
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Wednesday, September 14th, 2005
Google Blog Search is out in Beta mode. It appears that they are building an index of RSS feeds which may or may not be actual blogs. I don't see any tagging going on, but if I were Technorati I probably wouldn't be sleeping very well right now. Don't miss ...
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Monday, September 5th, 2005
Wired is carrying a story about a wiki of sorts that is being used to convey information about conditions in the aftermath of Katrina. A couple programmers have taken the Google Maps API and built a Web page, Scipionus.com, that allows people to add markers to the maps of ...
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Friday, August 12th, 2005
It's been long in coming, but the newest installment of the Savvy Technologist Podcast has finally arrived. But it's not the usual STP. I've always enjoyed the Gillmor Gang podcast and I've wanted to do something like it in the educational technology category for a long time. Now that I've ...
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Wednesday, August 10th, 2005
I feel like reprising my first podcasting post from last October. Just when you thought you had podcasting figured out, along comes DTV from the Participatory Culture Foundation. DTV, an acronym I have yet to find defined anywhere but I suspect stands for "Distributed TV," is a system that mirrors ...
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