Monthly Archives: August 2007

Again. I gave three presentations on Thursday morning for our District Technology Integration Day. I was really proud of the first talk I gave called “Effective Presentations”. I tried to channel Presentation Zen and Guy Kawasaki and share it with … Continue reading →

It seems like everyday I receive an e-mail that (to me at least) deserves a flaming response. Almost daily I find myself wanting to unleash all of my pent up rage at someone or something via e-mail. When I receive … Continue reading →

The end of summer that is. Summer is bliss at a school district. The office is quiet. The phone rarely rings. I can devote plenty of time and attention to big projects. What would take days during the school year … Continue reading →

My YouTube clone is coming along nicely so far. The next step is to set up a database to store information about each video such as a title and description. I’m using MySQL for my application. Here’s a command to … Continue reading →

The first step in building my YouTube clone is making sure all the programs on the server work. If you remember from yesterday, I’m using FFmpeg and JW FLV Player. Here are some great instructions for installing FFmpeg on a … Continue reading →

Yesterday I talked about choosing one framework to use to build web applications. I decided that the best way to evaluate them was to build a simple application. Not long after I wrote that post, the perfect application basically fell … Continue reading →