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Engaging responses to emerging technologies: Successful transitions
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Engaging responses to emerging technologies. This is an informal blog from the EGRET team. Allow me to introduce myself. I'm William Billingsley. A computing and HCI researcher and engineer, and I am one of the developers who has temporarily taken over development of Talks.cam, at least over the next couple of months. However, rather than just say "hello world", I thought it would be worth saying something about the transitioning process. For Linux or Martin Dougiamas. For Moodle. Rod Johnson. The trade ...
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Engaging responses to emerging technologies: that's August gone!
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Engaging responses to emerging technologies. This is an informal blog from the EGRET team. With Talks.cam helpdesk and jira bug-tracking set up, and Talks.cam hosted on our institutional servers here at CARET, we are making progress with the EGRET plan. We've had Talks.cam helpdesk tickets coming in, and it's been interesting to start to figure out both how to handle these in the short term and how to extend our helpdesk offering through the project. Tuesday, September 02, 2008. As a particular example&#...
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Engaging responses to emerging technologies: HCI 2009
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Engaging responses to emerging technologies. This is an informal blog from the EGRET team. EGRET and Talks.cam are excited to have been invited to present at the HCI 2009. Conference Open House on 2nd September 2009. This is the 23rd British Computer Society conference on Human-Computer Interaction, and a very prestigious event. We're lucky to be there, and looking forward to meeting lots of new people (and potential Talks.cam users! As the conference site says:. Monday, August 03, 2009. The latest from ...
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Engaging responses to emerging technologies: Final IRET meeting
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Engaging responses to emerging technologies. This is an informal blog from the EGRET team. Yesterday, Verity Allan and I ventured to Birmingham for the final IRET. Programme meeting. It was great to have a focus for our thoughts on institutionalisation of software and the issues around communicating our project outputs. The venue (the Studio. In Cannon Street) was unusual but pleasant, with good snacks and paper with aeroplane folding instructions which I personally enjoyed - after the event! JISC Innova...
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Engaging responses to emerging technologies: Summer days, drifting away
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Engaging responses to emerging technologies. This is an informal blog from the EGRET team. Summer days, drifting away. So, what's been happening on EGRET lately? Many people involved with the project have been on summer holidays. A lot of fascinating examples of issues relating to institutionalisation of software, particularly with reference to CamTools. Do comment below if you have any suggestions for great apps we should think about! Friday, August 22, 2008. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Looking ...
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Engaging responses to emerging technologies: Academic Networking Challenges
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Engaging responses to emerging technologies. This is an informal blog from the EGRET team. Read our latest report. On the challenges of academic networking when recommending events, commenting on events, and noting attendance at events is involved. Tuesday, August 25, 2009. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A blog for the EGRET project, which is being run at CARET. At the University of Cambridge. Funded project, part of the institutional responses to emergent technologies programme. JISC News Web Feed.
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Engaging responses to emerging technologies: Rake aborted! Unknown database
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Engaging responses to emerging technologies. This is an informal blog from the EGRET team. This is a boring technical post, but useful if anyone else Googles the same issue). While trying out an upgrade of Talks.cam to Rails 2.2, I happened to perform a RAILS ENV=test rake db:drop. I was a little concerned, then, that every rake task, including RAILS ENV=test rake db:create . Then complained Rake aborted! Unknown database talks2 testing. Tuesday, December 09, 2008. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Engaging responses to emerging technologies: Quiet releases and moving on
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Engaging responses to emerging technologies. This is an informal blog from the EGRET team. Quiet releases and moving on. We saved the bigger changes we've been making - such as the ongoing upgrade from an old version of Rails to something closer to current - for a later release when we'd be feeling braver. So larger changes are to come, and new features will arrive that might yet stir a cheer. Thursday, January 22, 2009. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). At the University of Cambridge. As a particular ...
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Engaging responses to emerging technologies: BarCamb2
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Engaging responses to emerging technologies. This is an informal blog from the EGRET team. I was at BarCamb2. Last Friday - a day of interesting talks and demos, held at the Sanger Centre near Cambridge. Last year I'd given a presentation about AlertMe.com. Thanks to Matt Wood. For organising another great event! Monday, August 04, 2008. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A blog for the EGRET project, which is being run at CARET. At the University of Cambridge. Subscribe to this blog. JISC News Web Feed.
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Engaging responses to emerging technologies: The data structures of Talks.cam
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Engaging responses to emerging technologies. This is an informal blog from the EGRET team. The data structures of Talks.cam. As part of EGRET, and looking forward to future work involving talks and events, we've documented the data structures of Talks.cam so that others can understand how the system works. You can read this functional description here. Wednesday, August 05, 2009. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A blog for the EGRET project, which is being run at CARET. At the University of Cambridge.
