Archive for February 16th, 2006


on February 16, 2006 in Uncategorized No Comments »

Lizzy made me do it! Okay, not really. She kindly requested that I update my journal so here I am babbling on and on about not much of anything. Okay, I guess I do have a rant to make. It seems that some people are really fond of Chalk & Wire. I can understand that it makes creating ePortfolios nice and easy. At least it makes creating “nice looking” portfolios easy. Unfortunately, they create these online and then they want to put them on CD. So, some people went out and bought an application to download the portfolios on a PC. Of course, they want this installed “as soon as possible”. Unfortunately, asap doesn’t mean much when we have a large number of other “asap” tasks already in the works. So, me being a nice guy and all, I came up with a free solution for the Macs that uses the wget command-line utility. I even spent some time to create a nice-looking GUI for it that even shows progress! I suspect this will be easier to use than (insert Windows app name here).
Well, that’s all for now. Maybe I’ll post more this weekend.