Robert Denton

Frequently Asked Questions What is a pheed? A pheed is a photo feed, or rather, an RSS document that has been extended to describe photos.

Upcoming.org: Home Upcoming.org is a collaborative event calendar, completely driven by people like you. Enter in the events you’re attending, comment on events entered by others, and syndicate event listings to your own weblog.

Google Maps If you haven’t seen this yet, run, flail your wrist to the link above! It’s a mind blowing combo of (and i’m guessing here) xml feeds, javascript, and other voodoo thrown in for good measure (well, at least some .png files to do the transparent overlay shadow)

Jenna Pfister — The Switch MovableType is the platform for Bowdoin’s needs but WordPress might still be my tool going forward. This is a decent roundup of some of the features of WP 1.5.

Ruby on Rails Rails is a full-stack, open-source web framework in Ruby for writing real-world applications with joy and less code than most frameworks spend doing XML sit-ups A few applications, big ones have made their way forward on this platform. Worth looking at IMO.

Instiki The smallest or simplest wiki implementation… installs on your desktop and works with a double-click and visit to localhost:2500/

The dullest blog in the world Scratching my knee (dull, September 10) My knee had a slight itch. I reached out my hand and scratched the knee in question. The itch was relieved and I was able to continue with my activities.

Apple – Science – Why Mac for Science Video Again. These were popular at Apple in the mid-90s when the truth was out there somewhere (but not in Mac OS version 8). Apple’s bsd core, unique windowing engine, adoption and creation of many standards do indeed fit the bill, unless of course you have standardized […]

Collaborative Digitization Projects in the United States Thanks to Ken Middleton for compiling this list… Might be nice to add it to a public space. The topic does cover many disciplines so finding an absolute home may be difficult.

SparkNotes: Test Prep: SAT II Welcome to the SAT II information center. Here, SparkNotes has collected everything you need to beat your SAT II subject tests. Use the links below to navigate to each SAT II test center or free online book, or check out the additional resources we’ve collected for you in the list […]