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Ry’s Git Tutorial - RyPress
Ry’s Git Tutorial - RyPress
Ry’s Git Tutorial is a complete introduction to distributed version control with a focus on practical command line usage. We explain Git’s robust branching, merging, and collaboration capabilities from the ground up, so prior experience with centralized systems like SVN or CVS is not required.
#git#tutorial#evernoted#ccc
·rypress.com·
Ry’s Git Tutorial - RyPress
The Shape of Design by Frank Chimero
The Shape of Design by Frank Chimero
What is the marker of good design? It moves. The story of a successful piece of design begins with the movement of its maker while it is being made, and amplifies by its publishing, moving the work out and around. It then continues in the feeling the work stirs in the audience when they see, use, or contribute to the work, and intensifies as the audience passes it on to others. Design gains value as it moves from hand to hand; context to context; need to need. If all of this movement harmonizes, the work gains a life of its own, and turns into a shared experience that enhances life and inches the world closer to its full potential.
#book#design#ds106
·read.shapeofdesignbook.com·
The Shape of Design by Frank Chimero
Overview - Tin Can API
Overview - Tin Can API
The Tin Can API (sometimes known as the Experience API or xAPI) is a brand new specification for learning technology that makes it possible to collect data about the wide range of experiences a person has (online and offline). This API captures data in a consistent format about a person or group’s activities from many technologies. Very different systems are able to securely communicate by capturing and sharing this stream of activities using Tin Can’s simple vocabulary.
#api#ccc#evernoted
·tincanapi.com·
Overview - Tin Can API
YouCanBook.me
YouCanBook.me
YouCanBook.me is booking software that integrates with your Google or iCloud Calendar. Get a personalized scheduling page so your customers can book you online.
#productivity#calendar
·youcanbook.me·
YouCanBook.me
Beyond Assessment - Recognizing Achievement in a Networked World ~ Stephen Downes
Beyond Assessment - Recognizing Achievement in a Networked World ~ Stephen Downes
ePortfolios and Open Badges are only the first wave in what will emerge as a wider network-based form of assessment that makes tests and reviews unnecessary. In this talk I discuss work being done in network-based automated competency development and recognition, the challenges it presents to traditional institutions, and the opportunities created for genuinely autonomous open learning.
#badges#eportfolio#ccc#evernoted
·downes.ca·
Beyond Assessment - Recognizing Achievement in a Networked World ~ Stephen Downes
Relatively Interesting 25 GIFs that explain how things work - Relatively Interesting
Relatively Interesting 25 GIFs that explain how things work - Relatively Interesting
Ever wonder how a zipper works, or how a crocodile can jump straight up out of the water, or how a dog can lap up water while standing up?  These are some of the most important questions facing humanity – no doubt.  Here are a collection of 25 animated GIFs that explain how things work…  from zippers to spiders; violins to plate tectonics; and braces to dandelions;  and more.
#animatedgif#ds106
·relativelyinteresting.com·
Relatively Interesting 25 GIFs that explain how things work - Relatively Interesting
The Periodic Table of WordPress Plugins
The Periodic Table of WordPress Plugins
Over 35‘000 WordPress plugins have been contributed to the WordPress.org Plugin Directory. Millions of websites are powered by these plugins, developed and maintained by an amazing open-source community around the globe. This table showcases the 108 most popular WordPress plugins, ranked by the number of active installs
#wordpress
·plugintable.com·
The Periodic Table of WordPress Plugins
- Creative Commons
- Creative Commons
This toolkit covers the elements for a basic Creative Commons platform integration, including aligning legal terms to CC tools; installing the CC license chooser; displaying CC licensed content with the correct logos and links; and how to communicate CC to your users.
#creativecommons
·creativecommons.org·
- Creative Commons
Global Day of Design
Global Day of Design
Students need to make, build, and tinker. The Global Day of Design is one-day that focuses on using the Design Thinking process in school. Our goal for the Global Day of Design is to inspire a transformation in schools around the world to incorporate design into an every day practice with our students.
#ds106#design
·globaldayofdesign.com·
Global Day of Design
P2PU | Get CC Savvy
P2PU | Get CC Savvy
Learn about Creative Commons licenses and how they work You: Are an awesome citizen of the web. Want to share your work with others. Want to use stuff that people have shared with you. This challenge: Will familiarize you with the range of Creative Commons licenses, which grant permission to the world to use creative work in specific ways. Will get you started on the road to CC savvy with a few short videos and activities. 
#creativecommons#ccc#evernoted
·courses.p2pu.org·
P2PU | Get CC Savvy
API Blueprint | API Blueprint
API Blueprint | API Blueprint
API Blueprint is simple and accessible to everybody involved in the API lifecycle. Its syntax is concise yet expressive. With API Blueprint you can quickly design and prototype APIs to be created or document and test already deployed mission-critical APIs.
#api#json#ccc#evernoted
·apiblueprint.org·
API Blueprint | API Blueprint
Don’t think about how you can ‘badge’ a course, think about the assessment design and what you want to achieve | MASHe
Don’t think about how you can ‘badge’ a course, think about the assessment design and what you want to achieve | MASHe
I think there are also indirect benefits that badging systems can lend themselves to. I talked/written previously about how we’ve used ‘check-in’ as a way for learners to discover who else is active in the course. Some would perhaps argue that these types of activities undermine the rigour of badging systems. I would argue learners understand that ‘checking-in’ is unlikely to impress an employer and consequently not even feature in a portfolio. So why then would they bother claiming it? In a distributed networked world we have to find other ways of saying hello. The other aspect of badges I think is often overlooked is it’s an opportunity to revisit the assessment design. Within higher education there is still heavy reliance on end loaded high stakes summative assessment. Back in 2007/08 I was fortunate to work for Professor David Nicol on the Re-Engineering Assessment Practices Project (REAP). David’s work has gone on to inform a number of follow-up projects and other research.
#badges#ccc#evernoted
·mashe.hawksey.info·
Don’t think about how you can ‘badge’ a course, think about the assessment design and what you want to achieve | MASHe
Thoughts on an API-First WordPress | CSS-Tricks
Thoughts on an API-First WordPress | CSS-Tricks
The following is a guest post by Eduardo Bouças. We all know WordPress is a CMS, but here Eduardo thinks about using it only as an API for content. No front end at all, just URL endpoints that return JSON for use anywhere else. This doesn't detail a comprehensive solution to doing this, it's food for thought with some example code to get you going on a custom solution. If you want to get started developing on a system like this right away, WP REST API is the most robust project with the most momentum.
#wordpress#api#cms#ccc#evernoted
·css-tricks.com·
Thoughts on an API-First WordPress | CSS-Tricks
A Guide to Creating and Hosting a Personal Website on GitHub | Jonathan McGlone | Librarian, Front-End Developer, Digital Publisher, Project Manager, Music Enthusiast, Web Noodler.
A Guide to Creating and Hosting a Personal Website on GitHub | Jonathan McGlone | Librarian, Front-End Developer, Digital Publisher, Project Manager, Music Enthusiast, Web Noodler.
This guide is meant to help Git and GitHub beginners get up and running with GitHub Pages and Jekyll in an afternoon. It assumes you know very little about version control, Git, and GitHub. It is helpful if you know the basics of HTML and CSS since we'll be working directly with these languages. We'll also be using a little bit of Markdown, but by no means do you need to be an expert with any of these languages.
#blogging#github#ccc#evernoted
·jmcglone.com·
A Guide to Creating and Hosting a Personal Website on GitHub | Jonathan McGlone | Librarian, Front-End Developer, Digital Publisher, Project Manager, Music Enthusiast, Web Noodler.
Charles Web Debugging Proxy • HTTP Monitor / HTTP Proxy / HTTPS & SSL Proxy / Reverse Proxy
Charles Web Debugging Proxy • HTTP Monitor / HTTP Proxy / HTTPS & SSL Proxy / Reverse Proxy
Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers (which contain the cookies and caching information).
#privacy#web
·charlesproxy.com·
Charles Web Debugging Proxy • HTTP Monitor / HTTP Proxy / HTTPS & SSL Proxy / Reverse Proxy
Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack | WIRED
Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack | WIRED
REAL-TIME CHAT APPLICATIONS have been around since the earliest days of the Internet. Yet somehow, despite the enormous number of options, the workplace chat app Slack has surged in popularity. After just two years in business, the company now boasts 675,000 paid users, 2.3 million users overall, and annual revenue of more than $64 million. Slack’s growth has shown that even seemingly ancient technologies like chat can still be improved, particularly when it comes to using instant messaging for work. But Slack has the limitations that all proprietary cloud apps do. Your data lives on someone else’s servers. Customization is limited. You have to trust that Slack the company will make the changes you want to Slack the app and not make changes you don’t want. Open sourcers are trying to beat Slack at its own game by providing features it doesn't yet have. That’s why the open source community has been racing to build better versions of Slack, even though countless open source chat apps exist already. In fact, Slack alternative Mattermost and Rocket.chat topped the Black Duck Rookies of the Year report, an annual list of new open source projects that attract the most developers and produce the most code.
#slack#ccc#evernoted
·wired.com·
Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack | WIRED
Anonymous Credentials - Microsoft Research
Anonymous Credentials - Microsoft Research
Anonymous credential systems allow users to authenticate themselves in a privacy-preserving manner. In a credential system, a user Alice can obtain credentials from an organization, and then at some later point, she can prove to the organization (or any other party) that she has been given appropriate credentials. In an anonymous credential system, she can do this without revealing anything else about her identity. In fact, we can even guarantee that if she uses her credential a second time, no one will be able to tell that the two interactions involved the same user.  Not only is it impossible to identify Alice; there will be no way anyone can trace Alice's transactions. Our research has focused primarily on using new developments in proof systems (such as the pairing based constructions of Groth, Ostrovsky and Sahai) to design credential schemes which rely on weaker assumptions, allow users to perform a wider range of transactions anonymously, or prevent users from abusing their privileges.
#credentials#privacy#security#ccc#evernoted
·research.microsoft.com·
Anonymous Credentials - Microsoft Research
The Emergence of GitHub as a Collaborative Platform for Education
The Emergence of GitHub as a Collaborative Platform for Education
The software development community has embraced GitHub as an essential platform for managing their software projects. GitHub has created efficiencies and helped improve the way software professionals work. It not only provides a traceable project repository, but it acts as a social meeting place for interested parties, supporting communities of practice. Recently, educators have seen the potential in GitHub’s collaborative features for managing and improving—perhaps even transforming—the learning experience. In this study, we examine how GitHub is emerging as a collaborative platform for education. We aim to understand how environments such as GitHub—environments that provide social and collaborative features in conjunction with distributed version control—may improve (or possibly hinder) the educational experience for students and teachers. We conduct a qualitative study focusing on how GitHub is being used in education, and the motivations, benefits and challenges it brings.
#education#github
·alexeyza.com·
The Emergence of GitHub as a Collaborative Platform for Education
From Collaborative Coding to Wedding Invitations: GitHub Is Going Mainstream | WIRED
From Collaborative Coding to Wedding Invitations: GitHub Is Going Mainstream | WIRED
With 3.4 million users, the five-year-old site is a runaway hit in the hacker community, the go-to place for coders to show off pet projects and crowdsource any improvements. But the company has grander ambitions: It wants to change the way people work. It’s starting with software developers for sure, but maybe one day anyone who edits text in one form or another — lawyers, writers, and civil servants — will do it the GitHub way.
#github#ccc#evernoted
·wired.com·
From Collaborative Coding to Wedding Invitations: GitHub Is Going Mainstream | WIRED