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Ctools and IFS

I emailed Scott Moore regarding Krysta's blog post Link: Hail to the Victors: DocuShare. He wrote a pretty good response about some tools I didn't know could be used for group work. Check it out here.

How Cool are We?

Blog is the word of the year!  It is, even though I didn't know there was such a thing!  How cool are we for being bloggers?  Woohoo!  Article Here

XML's growing pains- ADTmag.com

I read this article that kind of tells the story of the X-team we read about in "XSLT for Dummies" Link: XML's growing pains- ADTmag.com. and it kind of explains Jtrana's Question about why everything is so complicated.  Those who developed XML had different needs and thus developed different parts of it to fulfill them.  We are looking at a subset that seem to be commonly applicable in business, which is more and  more being conducted over the web.

BIT in general seems to really be about showing us what is possible given some tools that have been developed--not exactly what we should do.  Certainly it's easy to go out and buy a solution for a business process, but I'm glad we are gaining some knowledge of what is possible so that some day as a decision-maker I'm not left at the whim of some vendor as Bud pointed out. 

Gray-haired Inboxes

This article Link: Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea. suggests that Korean young people are treating email like many of us think of snail mail or telephone calls. The communication form they say is becoming too formal and slow in terms of response time. I tend to agree that in a world where I shut my instant messenger off less than my lights, it's definitely time to rethink what is acceptable communication for business. Sociologists will likely have a great time dissecting how the anti-social college students that you can best reach by IM are affected long term, but I'm about ready to trade in my stodgy inbox for something closer to free flowing communication.

Two Questions Regarding Final Project

I'm wondering the exact date that the final project is due?  I'm not sure when "the day of the final exam" is.  Also, the project 2 description/requirements say that "you will likely not be able to implement all of the functionality you think you need to" and "most people will choose to implement just a subset of the functionality listed in the requirements."  Can you explain what this means in terms of how you will grade?  What might we not be able to implement?  What is reasonable to just describe what is left to be done?  I'm confused as to what is expected.  What does it mean to "mock-up" what you didn't implement?

coffee-addelement_literal.xsl

In coffee-addelement_literal.xsl, in the bestwith tags the value-of select = taste, I beleive it should be equal to bestwith.

Blogonaut: RissRoss: The Dream Team

Link: Blogonaut: RissRoss: The Dream Team. In regards to RissRoss's first question...are we going to be using any other namespaces than the one to define and XSL document? There seems to be a little section of each chapter (at least 4 and 5) describing the commands used to interact with namespaces in the XML documents.

Kornstein999: Project 2 will be fun

Link: Kornstein999: Project 2 will be fun. And I speak for Mike's Group memebers in saying that we are happy he feels this way! No one can complain about having a guy in the group that wants to dive head first into XSLT. lol, just kidding around, I'm sure it will be fun.

basic.p63-2.xsl

In Bud's file basic.p63-2.xsl you need to add a closing tag </xsl:template> after the line that says "The Template People." to get the stylesheet to run on miniscore.xml

Blogonaut: Hail to the Victors: Blogs as the catalyst for promoting bottom-up change

My thoughts on the discussion between Krysta, Bud and RissRoss Link: Blogonaut: Hail to the Victors: Blogs as the catalyst for promoting bottom-up change are that perhaps, instead of using blogs to communicate up and down in an organization between management and the front line, the communication technique should be used laterally as a way to share IC. Many times people will come up against problems that aren't neccessarily suggestions, but are more so questions that others in the organization may be able to answer from experience. Instead of an email out to a large group asking for help, blogs could be a good exchange where employees could seek guidance.