I grew up with Commodore computers, starting with the Vic20, graduating through C-64, C-128, and finally, a smoking Amiga 1000. One of the best things I remember from the Amiga was a game called Marble Madness. A truly great game, but it's been basically lost since those days. I got a nice little announcement... »
I've been playing around with Macromedia Contribute 2, which is now available for MacOSX. It seems like an extremely useful utility for editing existing websites, but falls short for creating them. That's a reflection of the market they're looking at - newbies editing content (change a phone number on an intranet, update an image...). For... »
Tim Bray has another excellent post on searching. This time he's talking about metadata. How to collect it. What some limitations of collection are. Etc. We've seen the same limitations he lists for "hand collected metadata" - metadata that's manually entered by users. If you give them too many fields (like, say, maybe IMS LOM?)... »
I just got back from a very cool demo by Brad Behm, who works in Dr. J.R. Parker's Computer Vision Lab here on campus. Very VERY cool stuff. They've got an app set up so that you can feed it an image, and it will search its database of several hundred images and... »
I'm finally able to run Safari in full screen mode, thanks to a little InputManager plugin called Saft. Very cool. I now have Safari running full screen in desktop #2 on my 18-desktop VirtualDesktop setup. Works like a champ. It even drops the dock and menu bar out of the way (have to... »
Rick Lillie is planning an interesting experiment this fall. He will teach 3 sections of the same class, using various methodologies to see their effect. Traditional (lightly blended learning) vs. 2 online learning scenarios. He'll post info and results this fall. From Rick's post: Since mid-June, I have been teaching a course for UCLA Extension... »
I had initially planned on handing my Merlot conference co-presentation on RSS and Learning Objects over to Mike, but I just bit the bullet and got approval to attend the conference myself. I'm planning on arriving in Vancouver on Aug. 4, and leaving the evening of the 8th. I'm hoping I can... »
We're working on a new architecture for the next version of the software that drives CAREO et al. One thing we want to do is rip some of the core data functionality into a separate framework (actually a set of frameworks) and have a server host application manage communication between core data and... »
Sweet. James Dempsey made his ModelViewController song from WWDC2003 available online, with lyrics too! Thanks, James! »
I'm working on a prototype application for viewing embryology slides (and having HUGE flashbacks from when I took the course back when the earth was young). As a result, I get to play around in DirectorMX again, and am rather amazed at how quickly my Mad Lingo Skillz are coming back. Imaging Lingo rocks.... »
