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Not much new to report. I did a little work on the class wiki front page making it look a little bit neater but it still seems like there are several different definitions for the same thing. I think people are nervous of taking down other peoples stuff but really we only need one definition written up in our own words instead of quoting another page. Actually going there now it looks like it’s been cleaned up a bit more. It is an open wiki so anyone who wants to can go there and edit it however they see fit.
I did find some interesting stuff in the world of AJAX this week. It’s been out for a while but I just found out Google has a toolkit where you can write a program in Java and it will convert it to AJAX. It’s called the Google Web Toolkit and it’s something I’m going to be taking a look at since the majority of my programming experience is in Java. http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/ They have tutorials and what not so I’m going to check some of it out when I get some of that precious free time.
Continuing on this week I basically just did some review of the chapter 3 material. I think that is what we are going to be going over this week and am not sure how far the class got last week. That was the night that my eyes and head were being ultra sensitive to light. Not sure if was exactly a migraine but I think that’s one of the symptoms. So next week I should have some better updates for you since I’ll actually be in class this week to do some good old fashioned learnin’.
This is just a test of the CIT 499 Blog. This is only a test. Had this been a real blog entry I would have probably been complaining about something.
After much stress about the Web 2.0 paper I finally finished the editing on it minutes before it was actually due. I still feel like I’m probably missing several things dealing with grammar and flow but overall I’m happy with the result. I guess at this point I have to be right?
We were also supposed to work on the wiki collaboratively. I did this several weeks back which means my edits are probably going to be at the bottom because at that time no one had really touched it. I hope that doesn’t impact my grade. I went back to check and it seems like some of the stuff I had changed and edited had been removed or changed so significantly that I can’t tell if I did anything at all. At least my page on Social Media with the examples I gave went untouched.
Unfortunately even though I’m on campus right now I’m feeling pretty terrible with a migraine so I think I’m going to head home and send the prof an email apologizing for skipping out. We are going over chapter 3 tonight and while I can read the book and look at the examples from the chapter online all I want I’m going to miss the lecture which always clears up any confusion but I’d rather not be miserable in a basement lit with fluorescent tubes staring at a computer screen all night. Hopefully my class will understand.
For your reading pleasure I’m including the paper I wrote. Feel free to check out it out if you are curious about what web 2.0 is as well as social media. If you have even the slightest idea though it’s probably a waste of you time to read as it is very basic.
