http://www.tech.port.ac.uk/staffweb/duke-wie/blog/2006/07/07/web-20-services/

I’ve been using ikeepbookmarks for some time now, to organise bookmarks & I find it very useful. However, I know that del.ici.ous is much more heavily used; so was Googling to see if I could find any reviews of the two. In part, I was hoping to find evidence to support my decision not to move to del.ici.ous - other than the “They’re in there, I’m used to it & it would take far too long to move & retag the 2000+ links that I have!” reason that I currently use.

The tagging is one of the things that I’m not sure about, I’ve found it hard enough with ikeepbookmarks slotting things into the folders that I’ve created, however while tagging has the clear advantage that I can have more than one tag for a particular URL, I can see that it would be very easy with a tagging scheme to call something “e-learning” one day “eLearning” another and so on.

My Googling though took me via this post, and from there to Bob Stumpel’s blog, which includes his “Big Categorised list” - which is, as far as I can tell, everything he’d found up to June 19th … Newer discoveries have been blogged about since.

Another pretty comprehensive list - and the chance to look at them is presented by Web2.0 slides. It’s not quite as long as Bob’s from what I can tell, but 1,400 is plenty!

http://www.tech.port.ac.uk/staffweb/duke-wie/blog/2006/07/10/how-to-make-your-ajax-applications-accessible-40-tutorials-and-articles/

Max Kiesler has a useful list of articles about Ajax & Accessibility.

http://www.tech.port.ac.uk/staffweb/duke-wie/blog/2006/07/11/blogs-and-eportfolios-and-assessment/

Barbara’s thinking Out Loud about blogs & ePortfolios. Here at Portsmouth we’ve been talking about blogs & ePortfolios; I’m hoping to have Elgg set up for the start of next academic year, and to test it with some students, primarily for blogging, but, as all the groups that I’ll be working with will have to create some elearning software, I don’t see any reason why they can’t use the files section to share work in progress with other students/ me for feedback.

I very much agree with Barbara’s point that portfolios shouldn’t be a static repository for final artefacts; rather more for work in progress.

Well worth reading. (and the links too!)

http://www.tech.port.ac.uk/staffweb/duke-wie/blog/2006/07/18/wordpress-and-iframes-and-firefox/

I’ve had a few posts recently that have seemingly mangled my blog. From what I can tell, it seems to be things that have iframes.

This morning a student emailed me to say that he’d wanted to comment on a post, but wasn’t able to. I checked a random post and was able to comment, so I thought that it could have been something to do with the server problems we’d had over the weekend, and whatever they’d done to solve it. If that were to mean no-one could comment from outside, I wouldn’t have been very happy. However, I then thought I’d look for the post that he was talking about.

I located it, but, it was most odd. On the home page, it was the post I’d posted. However, when I attempted to post a comment, there wasn’t much content. When I went to edit it, it had somehow got the contents of a different post embedded in it - one that had an iframe. Looking at the list of posts in the admin panel, both were showing, and both showed in the relevant month archives. They just merged themselves when I was trying to look at them on the same page. I’ve now managed to edit them, and remove extraneous iframe references from them.

In the past, I’d found that the Google Notes iframe can cause problems - by inserting some extra code into a post - it’s only if I check the html that I can remove it; it’s invisible in the WYSIWYG editor. Equally, as I tend to use Firefox, rather than IE, it could be that it’s only a problem with Firefox. As far as I can tell, if I’ve got some text in here, and edit it (by highlighting then cutting etc.), sometimes the iframe to add it to Google note book opens up (and sometimes it doesn’t). It seems to require properly closing, rather than just ignoring to ensure that it’s not embedded in the page. So, I’ve missed it a few times, but at least I know now that if the home page suddenly looks wrong, I just have to check the HTML of the last post that’s showing.

http://www.tech.port.ac.uk/staffweb/duke-wie/blog/2006/07/27/how-can-i-tell-if-ill-be-any-good-as-a-programmer/

The Guardian Technology supplement reports on some work done at Middlesex, attempting to predict how well students are likely to perform in programming. Like other Universities, they’d noted that students typically either did very well, or failed. They have therefore designed a test, to see if they can predict how well students are likely to perform. Looking at the test, it’s remarkably like the one we had to do to in the MSc interview. (Getting onto the course wasn’t dependant on getting the test right).