A quote from a well known Academic, "pedagogy is a term used to describe the unendless waffling (over many many years) in the academia world to try to justify the fact that they don’t really understand why and how learners learn but are content with modelling and theorizing about their own lack of understanding of the learning process so that the learners (the ones that are actually learning) will have a perceived confidence and trust in them".

Hackers embed flashing animations on epilepsy support forum

There are lots of tips on how to use JScript to customize Dynamics CRM at client-side runtime. Examples include removing the Sub-Account navbar or loading a form tab by default. While these customizations are not supported as the DOM is accessed directly, they are sometimes mandatory to meet client requirements. Finding the element id does not need to be a tedious task, thanks to the IE Developer Toolbar.

1. Press ctrl+N to open the current window and display the IE Menu.

2. Select View, Explorer Bar, IE Developer Toolbar from the menu. The IE Developer Toolbar will be displayed at the bottom of the window.

3. Click on the Inspect button. Hover the cursor over elements and then click to view the elements attributes.

I use Firefox and Firebug so much that I’d forgotten about the IE Developer Toolbar. Sadly, Dynamics CRM does not if open in Firefox. I am at least glad that I remembered about the IE Developer Toolbar.

Justice seems to finally be on the way to prevailing - the PTO has found all of the 44 Blackboard patent claims to be invalid. It is however a non-final action - not sure what this means in legal terms. I hope it won’t be too long before a final verdict is made.

Wondering what impact this will have on the BB vs D2L Trial?

Yay - Adobe has released Photoshop Express. A few years ago this would have seemed impossible, but the boundaries of the Web Browser rectangle are constantly being pushed. Still the features are a pretty basic subset of the full Photoshop, but the product is aimed at an entirely different user.

I link above to the Ajaxian post, because it contains a snippet of the source code. The developers have a sense of humor.

If you ever need a good markup editor, <markitup/> looks like the one to choose. It is robust, customizable and written in jQuery. Html, Textile, Wiki Syntax, Markdown and BBcode are all supported. <markitup/> is of course not to be confused with a WYSIWYG editor by any means, but it can do nice AJAX style previews.

My happiest career moments have come from developing add-on’s for Learning Management Systems, so it is not hard to see why Michael Feldstein’s post on Widgets used to extend the LMS brought a smile to my face. The truth is that there has been a need for a non-proprietary extension framework for the LMS for a long long time. …Even better if the API allows for data persistence.

I hope to build a few simple Facebook apps and then plan to look at Sakai again. I last looked at Sakai a few years ago and this is a good sign that it is moving ahead in leaps and bounds.

I love fossil watches. I just got one for my Birthday

Cayra is a new mindmapping/concept mapping app that produces very nice organic looking diagrams. It is built with .NET, free and only 3.5 Mb (but remember you’ll need .NET 3.5 installed as well). Great for educational use.

I thought my working knowledge of ‘Web Security’ was pretty good. I was terribly wrong!

Google Code has Video Lectures and Programming Assignments on Web Security. I decided to tackle the Assignments first. I don’t think I went too well.

So if you are a Programmer type, I challenge you to take on the Web Security Programming Problem Set.