Create, administer and report on surveys, quizzes, tests and exams
checkmark Questionmark technologies and services enable reliable, valid and defensible assessments by empowering instructors through collaborative authoring, accommodating participant needs with blended and multilingual delivery and informing stakeholders through timely reporting and meaningful analytics. Key features and benfits include:
* Easy question and assessment authoring
* Question banking by learning objective
(Link: Questionmark – Perception Measure Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes Securely for Certification, Regulatory Compliance and successful Learning Outcomes)
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assessment, authoringtools, e-learning
I’ve created a (pretty hacky) gem named rails-upgrade (installable by a simple gem install rails-upgrade) to automate some of the more annoying parts of the upgrade from Rails 2.x to Rails 3. So far, it has three parts…
(Link: gem rails-upgrade: Automating a portion of the Rails 3 upgrade process)
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rails3, rubyonrails
PhoneGap is an open-source framework that can turn any web app into a native app for iPhone, BlackBerry and Android. It pulls off this trick by running your web code in a UIWebView, an embedded instance of Safari without the toolbars and buttons of the standalone Safari app. PhoneGap then extends this basic functionality by mapping features of the iPhone SDK to JavaScript objects you can call in your web code, so you can easily add features like GPS, camera, contacts, vibration, SQLLite and accelerometer support. And when you’re ready to distribute your app, PhoneGap 0.80 is Apple-approved!
(Link: The Easiest Way to Build your First iPhone App | Nettuts+)
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appstore, development, iphone
APE is a full-featured OpenSource solution designed for Ajax Push. It includes a comet server and a Javascript Framework. APE allows to implement any kind of real-time data streaming to a web browser, without having to install anything on the client-side.
(Link: APE (Ajax Push Engine) :: Comet server :: Real time data streaming)
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ajax, comet
Inkling makes it easy to bring rich, interactive learning content to tablet devices like iPad. Inkling engages students and provides authors and publishers with an exciting new way to bring content to market. It’s more than just the best digital textbook experience ever. It’s the best learning experience ever. Learn more about Inkling.
(Link: Inkling – the world’s first end-to-end platform for mobile learning content)
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e-learning, ipad
A developer tool for interacting with web services and other web resources that lets you make HTTP requests, set the entity body, and content type. This allows you to interact with web services and inspect the results.
After you install it, just go to Tools->Poster to open the poster window. After that, try a GET or POST on your favorite web service or site.
(Link: Poster :: Add-ons for Firefox)
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development, restful, testing
# Every time you look at something, ask yourself: “does this make sense”. Seriously; I’m not kidding.
# Do not assume you know a solution until you have all of the details and understand the problem. Assuming makes an ass out of you, me, your team, your project, your company, your school, your mom, your dad, your country, and the human race.
(Link: Solve Any Problem with these 4 Simple Steps | Semantic Internets)
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Productivity, tweet
“Cron” is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like operating systems (Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS etc…). And these jobs or tasks are referred to as “Cron Jobs”.
There is a cron “daemon” that runs on these systems. A daemon is a program that runs in the background all the time, usually initiated by the system. This cron daemon is responsible for launching these cron jobs on schedule.
The schedule resides in a configuration file named “crontab”. That’s where all the tasks and their timers are listed.
(Link: Scheduling Tasks with Cron Jobs | Nettuts+)
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cron
As anyone who uses Twitter can attest, even with some very specific search terms, language filtering and geocoding, there is going to be a lot of white noise. I decided to take this one step further.
Bayesian classification (your garden-variety spam filter) in ruby is quite easy, thanks to ruby-stemmer and the excellent classifier gem. The canonical example:
(Link: Bayesian Classification on Rails | Logan Koester)
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ai, bayesian, ruby, rubyonrails
You can create multiple projects and manage them easily from one place. Create project iterations/phases, and manage users and all spec items for every project. You can even invite your clients to see their project’s progress.
(Link: Project Tracking Software – Less Projects)
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collaboration, for:blakebyrnes@gmail.com, projectmanagement
A key lesson Jigsaw has learnt however, is that when you empower team members with a certain level of responsibility they will often exceed your expectations and perform above and beyond.
If as a project manager you have trust issues with team members and feel uneasy delegating key tasks to them, but at the same time clearly have a packed work schedule building death traps, you could start by delegating lower risk tasks to test the water.
(Link: What Jigsaw Can teach Us About Project Management)
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humor, management, projectmanagement, tweet
Are you looking some new social icon sets for your next project? You are at the right place here where you can catch 12 newest and awesome social icon sets. Especially, they are all free for download. Some of them are free for personal use only but others can be used without restriction.
(Link: 12 Awesome, Fresh And Free Web Social Icons Sets)
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icons
Pentaho Corporation is the commercial open source alternative for Business Intelligence (BI). Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition provides comprehensive reporting, OLAP analysis, dashboards, data integration, data mining and a BI platform that have made it the world’s leading and most widely deployed open source BI suite. Pentaho’s commercial open source business model eliminates software license fees, providing support, services, and product enhancements via an annual subscription. In the years since Pentaho’s inception as the pioneer in commercial open source BI, Pentaho’s products have been downloaded more than three million times, with production deployments at companies ranging from small organizations to The Global 2000.
(Link: Pentaho Corporation is the commercial open source alternative for business intelligence (BI).)
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bi, opensource, reporting
Version control for Adobe Photoshop
PixelNovel Timeline is a revolutionary version control system built for designers who use Adobe Photoshop. Timeline features a unique user interface that allows you to always see the file’s history and save file versions and get file versions without switching from the main Photoshop window.
(Link: Timeline – Version control for designers – PixelNovel)
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photoshop, plugin, svn, versioncontrol
One of the coolest things about MinuteBase is that it’s editable by others so if someone misses a meeting they can add their thoughts later. Completed meeting minutes are easily emailed, and you can also download a PDF for your files.
MinuteBase can do a whole lot of things, so if you work in a meeting-intensive environment you’ll definitely want to check it out. The free plan allows for one administrator, 25 MB of storage, and PDF export; premium plans offer more features and benefits. While the app is in beta, all the plans are free, so head over and check it out now.
(Link: MinuteBase Creates Agendas and Manages Notes for Your Next Meeting – Note Taking – Lifehacker)
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meeting, minimtg
