Edward Bilodeau

12:36 - Programming without computers: In their article Computing in post-war Afghanistan (Communications of the ACM, 49(2), February 2006), Uldal and Marjuan provide an interesting insight into the state of that country's computer science education in the 1990's, a situation that has thankfully improved.

Monday, February 13, 2006

22:23 - Clearing the decks: In the next two weeks I have to get a lot of work off my plate. I expect my energies will be focused on things other then this site. Having said that, one is always in need of distraction.

Friday, February 10, 2006

21:51 - RSS on McGill.ca: Although there are no orange RSS icons anywhere, McGill's events calendar has had an RSS feed for a few years now. Here's the feed URL if you are interested. A good number of the events are open to the public, so if you are nearby, it might be worth checking out.

Wednesday, February 08, 2006

09:16 - Developing E-learning Expertise in Higher Education: Although academia is often perceived as existing somewhat apart of the rest of society, today’s institutions of higher education are under increasing pressure to modernize. Like any other modern organizations, universities are expected to make extensive use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to deliver education. These increasing expectations, combined with limited resources and increasing calls for accountability, have created within the university a real need to develop expertise in the field of e-learning.

Monday, February 06, 2006

09:46 - IE7 support for RSS: Most of the commentary I've seen on IE7's support for RSS has been based on camparisons with news aggregators like RSS Bandit and Bloglines. I don't think this is fair or useful.

Sunday, February 05, 2006

22:34 - Same ol', same ol': Those of you who peruse my pictures on a regular basis have probably determined that I take a fair number of them going to and from work. Looking back over them, I can't help but notice a certain monotony creeping in.

15:56 - IE7 to fix object bug: According to this What's New in Internet Explorer 7 page, IE7 will handle nested object tags properly (i.e. it will ignore the inner object if the outer object is understood).

Saturday, February 04, 2006

13:46 - Stay close: CBC: Embassies set ablaze over caricature. While I'm not well read enough to know the history of violence incited by images, I have a low enough opinion of humanity to know that this probably isn't the first time it has happened. That doesn't make it any less absurd.

Wednesday, February 01, 2006

20:39 - The Importance of People and Tacit Knowledge to Knowledge Taxonomies: Taxonomies are typically offered as solutions to help organizations deal with information overload. By developing and imposing a classification system onto their vast and ever-growing collection of information, the organization hopes to make it easier for its employees to locate the information they need. Knowledge taxonomies take this idea further, mapping the organization's knowledge so that it can be more effectively accessed and applied. While information taxonomies can be very challenging to implement, knowledge taxonomies are even more so.

10:35 - IE7 to do away with CSS hacks: In preparing for the web development course I'm teaching this semester, I've had to delve back into the world of CSS hacks. Most recently, I was looking at how to use the object tag in an document that validates as XHTML Strict, something which requires a CSS hack to work properly across major browers.

Edward Bilodeau: Archive: February 2006

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