BuzzLion for the week of July 22

Posted on July 27, 2007 
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A look at what has ETS staff abuzz and gets people talking for the week of July 22…..

Vicki Williams is looking for your thoughts on the question What should we measure?.

“When we begin a project or initiative, we should always determine in advance what we want to accomplish and how will we know whether it is successful or not. Often, though, we are at a loss to know what it is we should measure or what data to collect to help make that determination.”

Pat Besong talks about how he FINALLY learned XML and how that helped him with a fairly complicated project.

“What I learned about XML is that it will create an array of nodes automatically if you ask it for all the childNodes at a given level of the XML file. I was able to easily home in on the data I needed once I understood this concept. XML had always sort of escaped me before, but now I can really appreciate what you can do with it.”

Michael France tells us some of the things you can do on an iPhone while stuck at the airport.

“This week, I am attending O’Reilly’s Open Source Conference (OSCON 2007) in Portland, OR. This is the first opportunity that I have had to travel with the iPhone. So far, it has been an invaluable travel companion.”

So you just started a blog; but how do you make it interesting? Elizabeth Pyatt gives some tips that will build your readership.

“Once you pick a theme for your blog, you may find it is easier to start writing. One of the nice features of the Blogs at Penn State is that you can begin more than one blog, so you can decide if you want to separate different aspects of your life or keep them together.”

Cole Camplese ponders life and thinks out loud about some great things coming out of ETS in the very near future.

“I am thinking about things from space design to new tools to support faculty and student collaborative opportunities. Much more on that in the coming weeks. I am in the midst of writing up several new project descriptions … there are some exciting things on the horizon!”

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