Friday Link Post: School’s Out For Summer
May.16, 2008 in
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Classic Alice Cooper, I remember playing that back when I was a DJ at WRPI, that was good times. I’ve been puttering around this week, just hanging out before my summer co-op starts on Monday. Of course, I have had lots of time to find cool links for you:
- Archana’s Blog
I am writing this from Austin Java where I just helped my friend Archana get all set up on WordPress. She is another student at UT, and is involved in UTweet and Texas Ventures, check out her blog! - Migas in the Morning Homesick Texan
The Homesick Texan has a cool post about one of my favorite “Texan” dishes, Migas. I’ve been eating a lot of them recently; usually when I make them, I just do onions in the pan first, then add eggs and let them cook for a second before adding salsa and then tortilla chips (the best come from El Milagro). I serve the whole thing in warm tortillas as a breakfast taco. - Blackboard Hearts Facebook Geek Stew
Alan has got a story about the course management suite Blackboard creating a Facebook application that will sync up with the Blackboard installation at your school to send notifications from Blackboard to Facebook, as well as some sort of roster functionality. UT has not updated Blackboard to version 8, but that is supposed to take place next week; stay tuned for an update when I test the Facebook application then.For the first time in a really long time, I felt a twinge of excitement that was associated with Blackboard
- Workin’ at the Internet Cafe - Laptop Dilemma Alt Text
Funny pondering about what to do at a coffee shop when you have your laptop and you need to get up and go to the bathroom - do you leave your computer unsupervised?It’s not that I think the guy next to me is going to steal my laptop — he’s already got one, and his is generally nicer — it’s just that I don’t think he’s going to do a damn thing if a desperate-looking hood and/or thug walks right up and grabs my iBook.
Have a great weekend folks and don’t forget to tell your friends about davidgiesberg dot com!
May 17th, 2008 at 8:38 am
UT’s Blackboard will most likely not heart Facebook. Too many issues with sending Category-I Data and passwords through third party servers. It’s almost guaranteed that ISO will reject it.
May 17th, 2008 at 9:33 am
I can’t imagine that Blackboard didn’t have that sort of data security in mind when they set up the system. I’m not super familiar with how facebook app security is set up or how Blackboard implemented their sync feature in BB8, but the impression I get is that BB Sync is a big deal for Blackboard, so something will need to work out here…