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Greg Wilson: Old Dogs Are Suspicious of New Tricks

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There was a brief flurry of email on the DrProject list this week about using JSON instead of XML for communication between clients (in our case, browsers and the occasional client-side script) and servers.  The…

Greg Wilson: A Question for the Class

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To what degree (if any) are the software developers who wrote the code involved in this tragedy responsible for what happened?  To what degree (if any) should they be held accountable?  Compare you answer to what…

Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned

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Or, in the case of software tools in education, always a step behind, but for a good reason. David Wolever recently wrote about how SVK has made his life better; he thinks it’s less painful to use than Subversion, and…

Greg Wilson: Italian, Latin lit, French lit, and Computer Science

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News story: the College Board told U.S. teachers in an e-mail yesterday that four underenrolled Advanced Placement courses will be eliminated after the 2008-09 academic year… The courses being cut — Italian, Latin…

Greg Wilson: Summer Plans for Software Carpentry

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The Software Carpentry site is still getting a lot of traffic, despite my neglect:

This summer, I’d like to:

Convert the site from static HTML pages to a wiki to make it easier for people to contribute content and…