The first thing I looked for after successfully migrating my old blog content to WordPress was some new plugins. The plugin ecosystem for WordPress has always impressed me with it’s diversity and range. The first two plugins I installed have actually changed the way I think a little bit about Read more »
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Meet the New Blog, Same As The Old Blog
I spent a fair amount of time this past weekend working on this site. While the new look is probably obvious, the more significant change was the move to WordPress. When I set up this blog in 2005, I was spending a significant amount of time developing Web applications in Read more »
Why Open Rubrics?
In my past few posts, I tried to shed a little light on my interest in an open data model for educational rubrics. If you’re new to the general concept of a rubric, there’s a fine summary on Wikipedia. So what do I mean by an “open data model”? Let’s Read more »
Why many Microformats begin with ‘h’
I’ve been spending some quality time with several Microformats as part of my work for DealerPeak. We’ve been adding semantic attributes, including hCard, hProduct, and hListing, to the pages generated by the DealerPeak Automotive Dealership CRM/CMS system. During a recent redesign of the car listing page, I was adding hCard Read more »
Towards an Open Rubric – Part Two
In part one, I related the shambling development project to build an online generalized rubric builder/application tool, codename:”Rubricator”, at the IST Solutions Institute at Penn State from 2007-2008. The official project met an untimely demise as a result of a college reorganization. While this certainly wasn’t the first technology project Read more »