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Swansea University lecturer. Web enthusiast; dabbler in software engineering and control systems; PLENK2010 ds106 and cck11 participant; EG-353 coordinator. Squirrel and meerkat.
Monthly Archives: August 2010
Podcast of the Week #5: The Changelog
Git sounds like an insult, but it’s actually a distributed version control system which was originally invented by Linus Torvalds, the developer of the Linux kernel. GitHub is a phenomenally successful open-source code hosting site build around Git. GitHub is … Continue reading
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Tagged git, GitHub, open source, recommendations, the changelog
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BBC Micro brought back to life
Really liked this story that was a small item on Today’s Today programme. Students on A level computing course being let into The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park to programme the BBC micro (in BBC Basic) in order … Continue reading
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The Twitter guardiantech Daily on paper.li (via @jemimakiss)
I like this idea. Mainstream newspaper The Guardian takes the twitter feeds of its tech journalists to produce a daily snapshot of it’s tech coverage. Could easily adapt this idea for a University or a teaching module — although a … Continue reading
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A Friday trip down the rabbit hole (or why I want to take the blue pill). What’s interested me this week.
<br/> See this Amp at http://bit.ly/cfsTTw <br/>
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The Real Life Social Network v2
I was wandering aimlessly across the internet, as you do, when I came across an interesting SlideShare Presentation The Real Life Social Network from Paul Adams (@padday) who works as the user research lead for social on the User Experience … Continue reading
#lrnchat Mendeley – my last.fm for research: catch me at Mendeley http://bit.ly/bnSba7
<br/> See this Amp at http://bit.ly/bkHmS8 <br/>
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Your Personal Learning Environment
Nice presentation made to students at the University of British Columbia as part of “JumpStart 2010″ UBC’s international orientation by former student Andre Malan (andremalan.net). Includes a very good presentation. As well as an orientation presentation (in Prezi) of Personal … Continue reading
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A Level Day 2010
Today is the day that A levels results are released to students and their parents. For the first time in as long as I can remember, the news media has not been obsessed with grade inflation. The estimated 175,000 students … Continue reading
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Cloud Computing – 44 Years On
Simon Wardley introduces cloud computing with an interesting history lesson on the commodization of technology. Includes an introduction to the OSCON 2010 Cloud Computing Summit. Memorable quote: the only [service providers] who call their customers “users” are drug dealers and … Continue reading
