I ought to be something else, but have been bothered by two items regarding our often used RSS2JS (allows humans to use RSS by cut and past JavaScript, processed by a PHP middle ware script). It hinged upon the defunct, gone, and un-documented OnyxRSS Parser. It could not handle Atom feeds, and since Blogger is […]
I can’t use my favorite words “share” and “open” too much, though these days… well, I will skip the droll comments. There, its twice in the title. This post started and is mostly (at least when I start writing, I tend to wander) about sharing [openly] a very nifty service / feature / tool for […]
I’m amazed the gears still turn on some of my old web sites. Sure, the old HTML still works, I have a conference “paper” on the web I did in 1994 that still functions. But it does not really provide more than static information. I smiled at seeing a tweet from friends in New Zealand […]
Insert here placeholder for dogfooding metaphor That’s my weak play at irony. I’m fleshing out an idea for a project I hope to start tinkering with; normally I might want to have a bit more to show before talking about it, but oh… the irony. The name for it came to me while driving around […]
May will be “MLX” month. Or “Mad Mad Mad” month. We will be madly tinkering to try and ready an open source version of the Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX).
It has not been of lack of interest that has kept this from happening, but shortage of time, staff (we are a team of 1.5 developers and plenty of other projects lined up in addition), and mostly, nightmares of having to actively support software development, something I have no experience or great desire to take on.
So this will be a first, semi-informal outline of ideas for “openMLX”, a request/offer/plea for those interested to get involved (maybe a sanity check). We will be working on a first prototype from one of our test servers, and run a test MLX for another department in our area, and (paws crossed), some sort of announcement at the June 2004 New Media Consortium Summer Conference
So here goes a few items on the table…
