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Screencasting for Lecture Capture
During this first couple of weeks of the new teaching term I’ve been experimenting with using screen capture software as a means of capturing my lectures. Using nothing more than the built-in microphone on my Macbook Pro and an educational … Continue reading
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HTML, CSS and JavaScript for Apps … why didn’t I think of that?
Recently I’ve been catching up with the the excellent new blog/podcast The Changelog which covers what’s fresh and new in open source Listening to episode 0.0.8 (you have to be a geek to appreciate the episode numbering!), I became aware … Continue reading
Google I/0 2008 Keynote
I have just finished watching the keynote of the Google I/O 2008 conference that took place at 9.30 am Las Vegas time yesterday and was posted on YouTube almost straight away afterwards. The conference is aimed at developers, but there’s … Continue reading
Better Web Application Framework: Followup
While going through my feed-reader today, I came across another potential framework, which I can add to the list mentioned earlier. This is Project Zero, an incubator project being developed by IBM. It uses the Java platform and the scripting … Continue reading
Better Web Application Framework
For a web application that I am developing as part of a research project I have decided on using Python for the business logic. The reasons being that the application will use fixed-point binary arithmetic, units, and data output as … Continue reading






