I’m beginning to suspect that the folks at MindJet have a secret plan for world domination. MindManager is rapidly evolving into a platform for doing the hard part of knowledge work and this is one more example.
I’ve lately found that I am spending more and more of my ‘think time’ working inside of MindManager. I’ve [...]
Some interesting thoughts on how mindmaps can work in the context of case-based learning.
I'll admit to long-term biases in favor of case-based learning properly
done. I come by these biases having worked all sides of the experience;
case method student, case writer, and case-based discussion leader.
Doing it well can be exceptionally powerful. Doing it poorly is [...]
This is an exciting addition to the upcoming BlawgThing conference. I've been using and advocating mindmaps
for years (I have one 26-year old hand drawn mindmap near my desk that
I used to organize my studying for exams at the end of my first year of
business school). MindManager was the first, and in my view still the
best, [...]
I posted something recently talking about how I am using my laptop as a test bed for various Web 2.0 ideas ( Experimenting with Web 2.0 on my laptop ). Several people have asked for more details on that environment.
Here is what I am running today:
Hardware: IBM T41 with 1GB of memory [...]
Wordpress Theme Toolkit.
Here’s a nice little toolkit. If you’re not the best PHP programmer in
the world, then this might be for you. It simplifies some things that
might be hard for a PHP novice. From the author’s mouth: Adding an
admin menu in your theme ensures that end users can customise things
without editing source [...] [Blogging Pro]
Wordpress Plugin: Image Zoom.
Now this
is one pretty durn cool plugin. It allows the users of your website to
zoom in on an image if they want. All they have to do is click on the
image, and voila!, it’s zoomed. Anyway, it’s very cool stuff, so check it out.
[Blogging Pro]
Dowload of The Day: BartPE.
BartPE is a free utility that lets you build a live CD-based copy of Windows XP that can be used for data recovery.
Bart's PE Builder helps you
build a “BartPE” (Bart Preinstalled Environment) bootable Windows
CD-Rom or DVD from the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003
installation/setup CD, very suitable for PC [...]
WP plugin: LinkNotes. WP plugin: LinkNotes Produce footnotes in Wordpress blogs.
[Weblog Tools Collection]
WP Plugin: Amazon Media Manager (New Version).
WP Plugin: Amazon Media Manager (New Version) with added cooler
features and internationalization. For those uninitiated, The Amazon
Media Manager lets you add items from Amazon's catalogue to your
wordpress blog. It keeps a list of things you've added, too, so you can
choose what to display, how to display it and more [...]
If I ever get around to it, this might be useful
Advanced Bash Scripting Guide.
An in-depth exploration of the art of
shell scripting. A “must-have” guide for sys-admins, web-developers and
programmers working on Unix-like systems.
This tutorial assumes no
previous knowledge of scripting or programming, but progresses rapidly
toward an intermediate/advanced level of instruction . . . all the
while [...]
