Newcastle will be taking 7000 fans to Barnsley this weekend. I'd like someone to name another club in this country, from any league, that can say they have an away following like NUFC. This is exceptional even by our standards!
HWTL
I've been searching for a decent and, most importantly, simple wiki solution now for the past few weeks. I needed something easy to use and manage for Snaggr's documentation. All of the potential software I found were either too bloated or too shithouse to use.
Maintaining documentation using a simple medium with a decent built-in search and suggest system is pretty important. Especially when it comes to writing pages upon pages of instructions and standards for something that's constantly changing and growing. I shouldn't have to think about how to use the software, I just want to fucking post shit and easily organize it.Even though I'm on a pretty tight, self-imposed, deadline for the API, I actually took the some time off yesterday and began writing my own wiki solution on top of the Kohana framewok. Three hours into it I decided to take a small break and search around on the net for other APIs I could potentially integrate into Snaggr. I happened upon a nice little service named Ember.According to Ember it's:"... the best way to share your design inspiration with the world - from webpages to screenshots, design to illustration, Ember is built for creatives looking to build an online design scrapbook."
Ok.
Well, the screenshot and illustration part caught my attention and I quickly discovered they provide a simple API. Unfortunately, according to it's online documentation, it doesn't support text-based search, but that's besides the point of this post. I noticed that Ember's support documentation is externally hosted by another service; Tender Support.Apparently, it's by the same guys who created Lighthouse, which is an issue tracking system I used to use. I really liked working with Lighthouse and figured if it's by the same guys, Tender Support must be alright as well. I signed up for the 30 trial and began working.Tender pretty much has everything I need to get the documentation up and running quickly. It's also very simple manage all your data. It even has built-in discussion forums for support and feedback as well as issue tracking. This is perfect for API support when things go wrong. So, what the hell, I liked it so much signed up for the basic plan.A very large chunk of the API documentation has already been completed and I'm hoping to get most of it done by this weekend. Hopefully, if all goes well, I can get a few people together to begin testing the API out.Stoked!
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Yesterday I read a very interesting post by Silvia Tolisano (@langwitches on Twitter) where she explains that as a teacher trying to implement 21st century teaching, you can often feel as you are in your own bubble"floating in a different dimension or even on a completely different planet"! In her post, she refers to a German saying “Allein auf weiter Flur stehen” which means that "one is walking a lonely hallway with no one around or even running away as they see you approach". This is exactly how I often feel in school. I mean, my school is deeply lacking technology but even though, I know that technology is not the only mean to become a 21st century teacher. It is all about sharing and collaborating, which you can do even if you don't have the latest technology at your fingertips. I feel that I am only/ mostly sharing good practice with my wonderful PLN on Twitter, Google Reader, Facebook, now starting on Google Wave, but very rarely in school!
Silvia Tolisano along with her Twitter network has created this wonderful picture which exactly describes my feeling at the moment.
"There are three ways to contribute to this image by adding keywords describing how the inside and outside of YOUR bubble looks like.
Offensichtlich freuen sich Beatallica auch schon auf die Tour:
#support local ri businesses
@EastsideMarket @furryfriendsri @oceanstatedogs @QOHProvidence @ridogwash @sneakerjunkies @STAProvPlace @VsJewelers
http://storymash.com/u/dr3arms/madenedu/ strange and cassandra meet for the first time! but what of the fate of dr. linker?
es gibt etwas, über diesen Mitmorgan, den gesagt zu werden, den ich selbst zu ziemlich gezogen bin. zuerst scheint Morgan Gavin, ein gelegentlicher, geisteskranker, tröpfelnder Idiot, ohne Wissen der Weltaußenseite seiner eigenen Vorstellungen zu sein. aber, da ich fortgefahren bin, zu lesen, was auch immer er auf meinem posterous bekannt geben wollte, werde ich häufig erinnert, dem die zutreffende Geniementalität, Lügen hinter den häufig zu viele Zeit irrtümlichen Mentalität festsetzt. aber dieses selbstverständlich in etwas alle, das wir gemeinsam haben. Morgan ist tatsächlich ein Mitintellektueller, obwohl ich nicht seine Kritiker bezweifele, denn ihnen werden ihre Meinung dieses Mannes außerdem erlaubt.
seine Fähigkeit, einen Plan zu organisieren, der zu seinem Wort zutreffend ist, ist unmissverständlich. aber ich fürchte dieses mal, er habe ausgedehnt vorbei seine Reichweite in seinen Versuchen an ansammelnder Unterstützung. dort für, Tanne das erste mal, werde ich helfen, die schlafenden Riesen vom politischen, vom Blogging, vom Forum und von den Zeitungsriesen zu erwecken.
wenn überhaupt es gab, bemannt eine angemessene Ursache für das Sammeln hinter diesem Aktionsplan, es benötigt für die Ursache des Gebens von Stärke zu denen sie. ich habe den Punkt ohne Rückkehr gesehen, und es ist ein wundervollster Anblick zu diesen alten Augen. geben Sie diesem Mann den ganzen Unterstützungs-, die er damit dieses unterhaltsamste, muss ehrgeizigen und extravagantenplan bitte arbeiten, wie er ihn sieht. für die, die mit heraus sind, treiben Sie an, wird es auf Arten gewinnen, denen sie nie mögliches gedacht haben.
ich möchte meine Hand nach Deutschland, beim Erwecken verlängern und sammelte und verbreite seinen Plan über ihrem schönen Land! LEBEN LANG DAS GROSSE GENIE! LEBEN LANG DIE IDEALE DER GLEICHHEIT, DER GERECHTIGKEIT FÜR DAS SCHWACHE UND DES WOHLSTANDES FÜR DIE BENACHTEILIGTEN!
Mentorship programs should be mandatory in schools.
Every student can benefit from this. Most are lost at least at one point in time about "what they want to do when they grow up", or what they seek to achieve in life, and I think the extra guidance and support from a mentor could really help the individual. Even for the fortunate(?) few that know what they want to do at in early stage, the mentor would be able to help them get there.
Support from family and friends is always nice, but they may not be knowledgeable about the industry of interest, and it helps to hear advice from a insider's perspective. While there will probably be a small cost to establish a mentorship network, I don't think it would be difficult to find mentors who want to help students, and the small cost would be well worth the taxpayers' money in the long-term.
