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Hpricot, a fast and delightful HTML parser (for Ruby)
Hpricot is a very flexible HTML parser, based on Tanaka Akira's HTree and John Resig's JQuery, but with the scanner recoded in C (using Ragel for scanning.) I've borrowed what I believe to be the best ideas from these wares to make Hpricot heaps of fun to
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Google Video (Screenscraping) RDoc Documentation: Ruby object-oriented interface to video content on Google Video. As GV has no formally exposed API, we make use of the lovely Hpricot to parse desired data from the Google Video web pages.
[does someone track gv's markup pattern as in apple sherlock of old?] Functionality includes: retrieve a list of current top videos| search for a list of videos matching a set of search query parameters| retrieve full detailed info on a specific video
/APIs/google APIs/screenscraping resources/documentation services/videologging rubyonrails knotes-issues to-do to-evaluate resources/tech-tracking -
'Learning guide' for every UK child | BBC NEWS | Education [Jan 4 2007]. Every child in England should have a "learning guide" to see that they benefit from new, personalised education, an expert group has said [2020 / Gilbert Review ]
'Pupils should learn how to be better learners, aided by their teachers and parents and perhaps "active retired" people. The role of the national curriculum and of exams should be reviewed. Education Secretary Alan Johnson: no child to be "left behind".
/news report interview policy/UK policy/elearning policy/eportfolios elearning/personalised PLE PLE-TEL-project for:ngrf for:alharris for:workplace_ple_project -
REST Eye for the SOA Guy | Steve Vinoski, IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 11, no. 1, 2007: 'I try to explain REST from the viewpoint of someone steeped in SOA, with the intention of helping SOA people understand the value the REST camp so rightfully touts
'Unfortunately, many SOA developers are far too quick to dismiss REST because it doesn’t fit with their favorite tools, because their favorite programming language doesn’t directly support it, or because they believe REST is just HTTP. Even if you bel
/recommended journal-article journals/online architectures/REST architectures/service-oriented theory/architectures analysis resources/hard-lessons for:opendock for:alharris for:stephentufail for:scottbwilson for:cdmilligan -
WikiEducator: community resource supported by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) for the development of free educational content. Founded by Wayne Mackintosh. Esp for eXe-created content. Also a collaboration-space for funding proposals etc.
Wikieducator was initiated in Dec 2006.. practical solution for collaborative authoring collaborative authoring capabilities o Mediawiki software; eXe's capabilities to recontextualise wiki content using educational elements called instructional devices
/elearning/open-content resources/collections elearning/materials exe wiki projects/nz projects/commonwealth policy/open-content elearning/interoperability for:alharris for:opendock for:olegliber for:scottbwilson for:cdmilligan for:mc_dip -
Exemplary Collection of Open eLearning Content Repositories | WikiEducator - good and growing annotated list of open learning resource services/projects/sites. as of jan 4/07 79 entries in 16 sections
'focus on best practise examples: "packaged" course units | stand alone material for eLearning content production (pictures, videos etc.) | internet encyclopedias/archives with open access | community developed material (eg. free textbook, wikieducator)
/elearning/open-content resources/collections elearning/materials wiki elearning/interoperability for:opendock for:alharris for:mc_dip -
2020 Vision: Report of the Teaching and Learning in 2020 Review Group [PDF 55pp, 212KB] - full report of Gilbert Review
'The key challenge for the Review Group was to consider how the education system, not just individual schools, might enable learning and teaching to meet pupils’ needs most effectively. Our recommendations focus on what is needed to effect systemic chan
/pdf-file report policy/UK policy/elearning policy/eportfolios elearning/personalised PLE PLE-TEL-project for:ngrf for:alharris for:workplace_ple_project
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