Monthly Archives: August 2009

cURLing with Alfresco’s and Google’s Data APIs

Posted on August 29, 2009 by Karl

Jeff Potts: Curl up with a good web script (interacting with Alfresco’s Document Manager via CMIS and Atom) Google Data APIs: Using cURL to interact with Google Data services Bonus: commandlinefu.com: Update twitter via curl as Function

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Questions regarding Inquirer and Daily News plans to charge readers of their websites

Posted on August 22, 2009 by Karl

I was contacted by someone who teaches journalism for my thoughts on Daily News and Inquirer plans to charge readers – how they might affect local bloggers who often link, comment, or refer to the news from those online publications. … Continue reading →

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Link: Setting OS X Terminal colors

Posted on August 20, 2009 by Karl

Infinitered: “A black OS X Leopard Terminal theme that is actually readable” (thank you!)

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Thank you Les Paul (and Les Paul’s mom)

Posted on August 16, 2009 by Karl

Les Paul passed away last week, and I just wanted to post this little piece of thanks and to share something about his story that I had heard before, but seems extra relevant to my personal exploration into education and … Continue reading →

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Top Gear’s James May rides to the edge of space in a U2 spy plane

Posted on August 8, 2009 by Karl

YouTube: link:

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Reading List: Getting Started with Alfresco SURF

Posted on August 3, 2009 by Karl

Goal for today is to absorb the following: AlfrescoWiki: Surf Platform AlfrescoWiki: Deployment Configurations benh: SURF Part 1 – Getting Started benh: SURF Part 2 – Pages and Navigation benh: SURF Part 3: Alfresco WCM Content Back in February, there … Continue reading →

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Making a good case, or how to disagree

Posted on August 3, 2009 by Karl

Paul Graham created a “disagreement hierarchy” that is an outline of arguing technique, from most base, to most complete. I’m hesitant to say “most effective” because as we’ve seen online – he or she with the most links can win … Continue reading →

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Quotable – out of context – but worth it – on maybe why Bill O’Reilly is more popular than Bill Moyers?

Posted on August 2, 2009 by Karl

Alan Kay on comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.beginners: Re: Smalltalk Data Structures and Algorithms: What is wrong? Why is mere opinion so dominating discussions held on the easiest medium there has ever been that can provide substantiations with just a little curiosity and work? … Continue reading →

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