GitHub Training
An introduction to GitHub for those who prefer the web browser and graphical clients.
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O'Reilly Atlas
Push-Button Publishing Is Here. Write. Design. Publish. It’s That Simple. Unlike other authoring platforms, Atlas is proven to work in a professional editorial and production environment. We’ve used Atlas to write and produce hundreds of O’Reilly books, and we’ve refined the system so that you can create professional-quality versions of your content in print, digital book, and web formats. Look no further: you’ve found the service for creating the next generation of books.
Locus Online Perspectives » Cory Doctorow: Wealth Inequality Is Even Worsein Reputation Economies
Reputation is a terrible currency. Currencies need to serve as units of account – so you can price everything from vintage Star Wars figures to anti-fungal cream and calculate their total worth. They need to serve as media for exchange, so that someone who has Kenner Star Wars figures and needs anti-fungal cream can convert one to the other. They need to serve as stores of value – so you can convert your action figures to something more stable that you can use in your dotage, in case Star Wars ceases to be cool in another 50 years. Reputation is pretty much useless for any of these things. Instead, they’re literally popularity contests: ‘‘more people like me than you, so I win and you lose.’’ In theory, this kind of jerky behavior will cost you reputation – but in reality, many people are delighted to treat such jerks as ‘‘strong, decisive people who tell it like it is.’’
Certification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Certification refers to the confirmation of certain characteristics of an object, person, or organization. This confirmation is often, but not always, provided by some form of external review, education, assessment, or audit. Accreditation is a specific organization's process of certification.
4 open source chat applications for team collaboration | Opensource.com
Recently, Slack has quickly become the darling of software development circles, leading to displacement of many other tools. An article in The Next Web earlier this year proclaimed "Slack is quietly, unintentionally killing IRC," and this switch has also come to many open source communities. The developers behind Wordpress, for example, have switched to Slack for their team communications. But Slack is a closed source SaaS tool, and it's far from the only name in the game. In fact, open source might be critical to your business chat needs. If you work with sensitive information, or need to make sure that all communication stays behind a firewall, self-hosting might be your best option. And access to the source helps you ensure that the communication between you and your team isn't seeping out of your control through some nefarious addition to the codebase. Let's look at four open source alternatives, from old classics to brand new, that might be a good fit for you and your team's chat needs.
How I Organize Evernote: A Peek Inside My Personal System
But Evernote can quickly become unwieldy if you don’t have a system for using it. It doesn’t have to be complex, but it does have to be intentional. My own strategy has evolved over time.
Every Fucking Bootstrap Website Ever
a parody of web design
fcingolani/wordpress-juxtapose: Wordpress Plugin. Adds a [juxtapose] shortcode to embed Northwestern University Knight Lab's JuxtaposeJS frame comparisons.
Wordpress Plugin. Adds a [juxtapose] shortcode to embed Northwestern University Knight Lab's JuxtaposeJS frame comparisons.
Mac Kung Fu: Massively speed up Time Machine backups
Time Machine and its network-equipped brother, Time Capsule, are superb innovations. They make backup seamless, invisible and easy. They’re also slow. Really slow. I’ve had to wait before I put my MacBook Pro to sleep sometimes while a backup finishes and, of course, the initial backup can literally take days. Here’s how to fix that.
Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV: Varying Vagrant Vagrants is an open source Vagrant configuration focused on WordPress development.
Varying Vagrant Vagrants is an open source Vagrant configuration focused on WordPress development.
THE WALK OF LIFE PROJECT
HYPOTHESIS: "WALK OF LIFE" BY DIRE STRAITS IS THE PERFECT SONG TO END ANY MOVIE
Anatomy of a Tweet
Badge List - Digital credentials for organizations
Helping organizations turn achievements into web-based credentials.
:: Pindex ::
Pindex is a pinboard for learning. Collect and discover the best material.
NYC Gifathon
I spent a month in New York City where I animated a new GIF every day for 30 days, inspired by something that happened during my stay.
Education – Hypothesis
Whether you are teaching web literacy and having students read, write, and participate on the Internet, or are simply teaching a traditional text like a poem or article that just happens to be online, you and your students can use Hypothesis to collaboratively annotate these course readings. Here are some resources to help you get started today:
Emojicode Documentation
Emojicode is a delimiter-less, object orientated, imperative, high-level, hybrid language. Its language fix points and methods are emojis. Emojicode has a focus on integrating systems well, being Unicode compatible, and providing a stable and consistent interface. Emojicode aims to be the first high-level programming language that uses Emojis to structure the program and its flow.
Fold-Ins, Past and Present - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
Al Jaffee's fold-ins for Mad magazine, from the 1960s to the present, in interactive form.
Antispam Bee: An Effective Alternative to Akismet – SpinPress
Antispam Bee is one of the biggest Akismet competitors in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory, with almost 1 million downloads so far. In my opinion it’s also the most powerful alternative as the freely available plugin uses many different techniques to identify spam messages.
TRACY R. TWYMAN | The Real Meaning of “Et in Arcadia Ego” and the Underground Stream
These words may have first appeared in a painting by Il Guercino (c.1618) of the same name. Throughout the Renaissance, this phrase was used as a sort of code word for “the underground stream,” an invisible college of kindred souls who secretly shared their esoteric knowledge with one another, passing it around Europe via a network of secret societies and mystery schools, often utilizing its arcane symbolism in works of art and literature. Such symbolism shows up, for instance, in the works of Rene d’Anjou, Giordano Bruno, Leonardo da Vinci, Nicholas Poussin, and many others. The authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail(Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln) describe thusly the symbolism of the underground stream:
Vector Free - About Vector Free
Vector Free is a vector site with free vector graphics, images, illustrations, backgrounds, icons, symbols, clip art, logos, cartoon characters, buttons, silhouettes, design templates, brushes and patterns. Need original vector footage for your next design? Download cool vector stock images for free in Illustrator format and use them for your website, blog, posters, flyers and other creative projects.
wordWar by Dr.Wicked
wordWar is a competitive writing game that lets you challenge your friends to see who can get their first draft done fastest. It's a word sprint with rules and a virtual referee.
Write or Die 2
Write or Die is an application for Windows, Mac and Linux which aims to eliminate writer's block by providing consequences for procrastination and, new to this version, rewards for accomplishment. Historically Write or Die has specialized in being the stick in the carrot/stick motivation continuum, but it's time to experiment with encouragement.
How to Embed an External RSS Feed in WordPress Posts via Shortcode
Well in this article, we will show you how to embed an external RSS feed in WordPress posts via shortcode, so you can keep your list posts relevant.
Every Frame a Painting on Vimeo
film analysis so good
Playful Annotation in the Open
Curious about what’s happening here? Let me briefly sketch some context. First, INTE 5320 Games and Learning is an online graduate course at the University of Colorado Denver’s School of Education and Human Development. Second, the course is designed so that student learning occurs across networked and open settings and practices; from our use of Twitter (follow #ILT5320), to student blogs (and this blog, too, as our public home), to our use of Hypothesis (an open annotation platform that we use for annotation-as-discussion of course readings). And third, I’ve begun writing about students’ deep dive into the practices of open annotation. As an antidote to the (dying) discussion standards of online education, most students readers have responded rather favorably to Hypothesis.
The Victorian MOOC - Hybrid Pedagogy
This is the story of how Anna Ticknor in her fiftieth year, and over two hundred women volunteers, leveraged the postal service — the most advanced, accessible and democratising information technology of their day — to provide support, education, opportunity, and resources to women regardless of race, location, class, or financial disposition. Women who were actively, explicitly, and implicitly excluded from education. It’s the story of an edtech revolution that came to be called the “Silent University” — The Society to Encourage Studies at Home, founded in 1873.
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100+ Interesting Data Sets for Statistics - rs.io
One thing is certain, anyways. Some of us are drowning in data, most of us are oblivious, and some lucky few are surfing on it. We can do things that we couldn’t in the past (e.g. without Project Gutenberg, neither of my two analyses of the relationship between creativity and compression would have been possible.) And that got me wondering: just what other interesting data sets are out there? As part of my research, I decided to put together this sort of guided tour, a curated list if you will — adding a bit of structure to the firehose’s deluge.
A Short History of the Index Card
Index cards are mostly obsolete nowadays. We use them to create flash cards, write recipes, and occasionally fold them up into cool paper airplanes. But their original purpose was nothing less than organizing and classifying every known animal, plant, and mineral in the world. Later, they formed the backbone of the library system, allowing us to index vast sums of information and inadvertently creating many of the underlying ideas that allowed the Internet to flourish.