I was working on Sakai help yesterday and decided that using CouchDB might be the way to go if I ever got some time to try to replace Sakai’s default help system. (more…)
December 10, 2008
November 18, 2008
couchdb
Stumbled across couchdb thanks to the Sakai devel mailing list. Looks cool, but I need to use it before I can get my head around what it might be able to do. I think a good toy application that will also be useful is to code up Mike’s glossary using it. That would be good because the limitation of a wiki is that when you want to add links to existing pages, you have to guess or whatnot, and anyway a wiki is not a glossary. I just want a dynamic, editable, cross-linked glossary. That isn’t hand-generated!
October 30, 2008
If you’re not a Socialist, you’re antisocial!
My goodness maglev PRT is an astoundingly stupid idea.
September 24, 2008
Wacky Ideas
So I was writing an email and considering the different strengths of Transims/Matsim vs a microsimulator, and I wrote that Transims can help us analyze big policy questions like what if we replaced all of the freeways with bike lanes. (more…)