Here an intereresting thread over at Wes' place - Hack the Planet Prime: New Mac for Linux Geek?

O'Reilly Network: Apache Web-Serving with Mac OS X: Part 2 [Dec. 14, 2001]

So, after the work we did in the last article, we've got a prettier URL, but still a rather boring site. We need features to impress the boss, and to turn them on we're going to have to start fiddling with Mac OS X's Terminal. We're going to assume you know how to edit and save files via the command line, either through a native shell editor (like vi or emacs) or via a GUI editor such as BBEdit. Our examples below assume BBEdit 6.5 and its shell utility.

O'Reilly Network: Learning the Mac OS X Terminal: Part 1 [Dec. 14, 2001]

via HtP - Standards board approves Microsoft's C#, CLI

Gartner's Smith said C# and CLI do little to create an open way of developing Web services for platforms other than .Net, because they only represent a portion of the necessary technology. "It appears on the surface that this means there is a way to create some sort of cross-platform .Net." he said. "But [standardization] does nothing to address the issues around cross-platform development."

By coincidence, I was talking about C# and CLI at my [52.223] Low level programming (LLP) lecture earlier today.

As per usual SiT has some great links and commentary about, surprise surprise - Instructional Technology. For instance: Serious Instructional Technology (SiT): Integration and organization

I see a good web CMS that mixes elements of weblogs, e-mail, teaching, and more formal web pages as critical to solving this kind of problem. Units need the ability to work out in the open, actively narrating what they are doing and thinking about. This doesn't just include the "business" side of a college, but also the teaching side, where faculty's insights and techniques can stay too easily hidden. Re-organization and power-grabs won't solve the problem. I'm suggesting that we replicate the evolutionary knowledge anarchy of the web, but within a single environment that is easy to use and makes both sharing and discussion the default behaviors.

Well said David!

One of my colleagues - Prof Paddy Nixon - just e-mailed the department:

"To put me in the mood for a beer this evening (5pm in the Printworks - prob' sitting at the back at the big tables) I marked 263 assessments this afternoon.

It took 15 minutes to mark them and email them out to the students.

The serious point to this is, after an investment of about 1 person year of programming and content work I managed to get an automated systems to run labs assessments for computer systems. I am sincerely astounded at how well it worked and how much easier it has made the management of this course."

At the moment I'm using the old-fashioned way of marking. Taking about 263 minutes per 15 assignments ;-) I must automate. I must automate. I must automate...!!

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