24 Jan 2008

I posted a few more pictures to Flickr. They were shot RAW, and I did some more experimenting with “developing” them than I usually do. The “digital darkroom” aspect of RAW photography is a blast.

23 Jan 2008

The reader for 396A is almost finished. Thank goodness. I’ve never tried to push a PDF so far.

I’m still hoping to do some writing about Critical Realist pedagogy. Especially as it pertains to instructional design (or at least the context in which such design happens.) I’m having some trouble finding the essential reading that will get me started. I’m also hoping to do a redesign of this site soon, spurred especially by my acquisition of CSSEdit. What a brilliant piece of software.

15 Dec 2007

Looks like it’s going to be a new site/proper blog.

3 Dec 2007

It’s been a while. I’m going to resurrect this site with what I hope will be a series of posts about the topic of critical realism and its implications for pedagogy and instructional design in particular. I will probably be reconfiguring this site soon, too (unless I decide to start a proper blog elsewhere.)

23 May 2007

I’ve made a Flash-based RSS Story Shopping cart. Here’s the link to it.

You may need to change your security settings: Flash is very erratic in how it handles the RSS feed, even though the feed is coming from within the same domain as the SWF. (Flash isn’t supposed to have a problem with that, but it has for me on and off.)

I think this could actually be really useful for something like an events site. Say a Flash calendar that is populated with events via RSS (or maybe some other form of XML) is available. A user could pick and choose events in one sitting, put them in her “cart”, and send an email with all of the events that seemed interesting, instead of having to send a separate e-mail for each item or copying and pasting each item manually.

As soon as I clean up the code, I will post it. Thanks to Zinj Guo and Gant Laborde for help and making code available, respectively.