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Darren Cambridge on UKLeaP
{{file:1716}} There was some talk of alternative RDF bindings as opposed to IMS - it's worth mentioning that FOAF is one such binding, which Elgg supports today.
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Photos from the ePlugfest so far
I'm not the first person on Elgg.net to be blogging this - check back through the day to see our reflections. Tea and coffee at the reception: {{file:1714}} Fabrizio Giorgini's Giunti Labs presentation in progress: {{file:1715}}
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Interoperability, plugfests and people
I'm going to keep this short, because it's late and I'm tired - however, there are several things of note: * I'm in Cambridge, ready for the ePlugfest tomorrow - exciting stuff! * I'm posting this using a generic Windows blogging client
Safety online, part 2
Vaguely related to my post about training, Bill Thompson @ BBC News points out a new web safety campaign starting this week. Get Safe Online is "a joint government and private sector initiative aimed at helping consumers and small businesses to use the internet safely." Unfortunately the website isn&
For my own later consumption
Indicating HTML and RDF authorship with FOAF Drupal FOAF module
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Training for teachers
Via Slashdot: "The personal information of thousands of California children and their teachers was open to public view when the school districts issued a generic password to teachers using the system. Until the teacher used the system and changed the generic password to a unique password, anyone was able
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Flock
I'm posting this using the developer edition of Flock. Can we say "overhyped"? There are several additions on top of the core Firefox functionality. The built-in RSS aggregator is nice; so the a built-in blog poster (which doesn't work with Elgg.net yet, but
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Authentication soup
I don't suppose any of the PHP programmers reading this know an easy way to load the content of external pages using HTTP authentication, do you? Aside from in the URL line. That would come in really handy. Meanwhile, I've just made myself the world'
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MySQL - powered by Oracle
Here's an interesting one - the InnoDB component that helps keep MySQL ticking along is now owned by Oracle. MySQL is the most popular database system for web applications, which is why we chose it to power Elgg[1]; Oracle is the most powerful corporate database software vendor
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RSS and other animals
My local install of Elgg now reads in entries from RSS files and aggregates them on a page. A couple of interface tweaks and I'll upload my work to this site, probably over the weekend. Assuming there isn't some kind of almighty programming hiccup, this should
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Windows on the world
Microsoft Windows celebrates its 20th birthday this week. I'd post something really acerbic, but I'm sitting at a Windows 2000 workstation; my laptop at home (on which 90% of the Elgg code was written) runs Windows XP. I have a desktop that dual boots Windows 2000
BlackboardCT
It's an open secret that I was inspired to write the first draft for Elgg (we'll call it version 0.001) after experiences supporting and programming for one of the closed-source virtual learning environments. I felt, and still feel, that it is unfair for universities to