Disembrangling programming

The simple life of a web developer — by Paul Craciunoiu

Upgrading Windows Vista or 7RC to Windows 7 on dual boot with Linux (Ubuntu)

As you may or may not know, the Windows 7 RC/beta/other releases expire at the latest on March 1st, 2 days from now. So I had to spend some time this weekend upgrading to a full Windows 7. Read the rest of this entry »

My SUMO local development environment

Summary

A while back, James wrote about his development environment. I wanted to summarize my approach, and go into a bit more detail about the specific setup you would need to have SUMO work locally. For more information, see also this wiki page.

My LDE: Ubuntu Linux

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My list of Firefox add-ons

UPDATE (27 Feb 2010) BarTab is an awesome extension.

Other potentially useful that I haven’t installed:

Hacking Wordpress: check contact messages for spam using Wordpress’ built-in Akismet spam for comments

This article explains how to easily create a contact form with spam filtering in Wordpress.

Duration: 30 minutes
Demo: http://awesomemath.org/ (see footer)
Software: Wordpress 2.8.6 (latest as of this writing)

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EDUC60 – nov 2 – lecture notes

Ideas about teaching:

  • Pedagogical content knowledge
  • Culturally responsive teaching
  • Teacher as facilitator
  • Teacher learning
  • Teacher learning communities

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