Month: March 2006

This should be of interest to anyone dabbling in Elgg programming. IBM have put together a recommended reading list for PHP programmers, including suggestions for development environments and server stacks to run your scripts against. There are some interesting integration tutorials linked, as well; if anyone wants to create an Elgg-eBay interface (eurrgh), this is […]

There’s been a kerfuffle in the wider blogosphere lately about Dave Winer’s decision to quit blogging. Basically, there seem to be a bunch of people who can’t live without reading Scripting News every single day, and are pretty much begging him to reconsider. Michael Arrington of TechCrunch fame even went on to say that Scripting […]

That said, here are some web 2.0 services that I think might have their uses in education. As ever, I’m not advocating the use of centralised, commercial applications in education; I believe localised open source software most often provides the best solutions. However, the approaches below have potential. Amazon S3 “Amazon S3 provides a simple […]

Lately I’ve been feeling more and more jaded about the web. It’s not that it’s not an amazing invention that’s changing the world – clearly it is, and we’ve only begun to glimpse the possibilities of a connected world. The problem is, I think a lot of people are looking at it as a replacement […]