I was just playing around with the Lightweight Asset Management thingy I've been working on, and decided to try something new... For a couple of years now, I've maintained a quick and dirty website of webcams of warm places. You know, for when it's not so nice outside... I took the URLs from that website, and... »
I just attempted to give CompuSmart some money. I arranged my afternoon so that Evan and I could take the bus from our house to the Giant Congregation of Strip Malls known as Crowfoot Crossing, so we could trek to the local CompuSmart store to pick up a USB headset, and possibly an Apple... »
I've been using delicious2Safari for a while now, and it's a really nice (and free) way to integrate your carefully tagged folksonomies from del.icio.us into your Safari bookmarks. Combine that with Safari Stand, which makes an extremely useful bookmarks search utility only an F4 away, and I've got a very handy offline cache of del.icio.us... »
I was just chatting with Joshua Archer and we tried out Skype. It looks really promising, but we didn't get to have an actual conversation over it because I didn't have headphones, and the feedback from my powerbook's internal microphone was pretty nasty. Assuming the addition of headphones clears that up, this should be a... »
I've just updated our Teaching Resources database to use a copy of the lightweight asset management system I built for the Pachyderm project. Previously, the TR database had been developed as a WebObjects application, connecting to an XStreamDB XML database. That performed really well, and made for nice reliable queries, but meant an editing interface... »
The Learning Commons is looking to find a good flash designer (able to work on existing flash projects with a lot of actionscript code, and to create new projects based on them). This person would be filling a dual role, also providing graphic design expertise for online projects (websites, more flash stuff, some interactive/CD-ROM... »
Normally, it's just annoying. This time, I missed my bus because of it. My menubar clock was blissfully telling me it was "Tue 1:18:42 PM" - I just thought it was a particularly long day, since it felt later (it was a particularly long day, but that's another story). So, I keep plugging away. Eventually, I... »
I've been making some time to think seriously about some of the assumptions and preconceptions I have regarding metadata, in light of my quick and dirty asset management tool. I had committed 100% to the "rich, deep metadata is beautiful" mantra, drinking the IMS/IEEE LOM Kool-Aid™. I've built Large Applications that have been designed entirely... »
The folks at EDUCAUSE are doing something interesting this year at NLII - they are releasing the audio from many sessions via audio attachments to their EDUCAUSE Community Blogs. Podcasting the conference. That's freaking awesome! I'd expect that from something like BloggerCon, but for a "mainstream educational conference" to be doing this... I'm impressed. I've... »
I've just worked up a drop-dead simple asset metadata database for the Pachyderm project. It's just a MySQL database, with a single table that has 10 fields (including primary key). This simple database will serve basic metadata needs for the Pachyderm beta. I also built a simple asset management system to test out the database.... »
