http://www.stevenchoy.com/wordpress Teaching, Learning, Software, Computing, Web, Tech, and Culture Tue, 07 Aug 2007 00:48:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just find KnowledgebasePublisher (2.0 BETA1) released. It can be put into a LAMP (Linux+Apache+MySQL+PHP) platform to run it. After looking at the demo site and some live sites that use it, I also want to give it a try. KnowledgebasePublisher is an opensource knowledge base software, FAQ software, or just ... http://www.stevenchoy.com/wordpress/knowledge-base-software-in-php/ What is Snap Preview Anywhere? Snap Preview Anywhere enables anyone visiting your site to get a glimpse of what other sites you’re linking to, without having to leave your site. By rolling over any link, the user gets a visual preview of the site without having to go there, thus ... http://www.stevenchoy.com/wordpress/try-snap-preview-anywhere-in-wordpress/ Google announced that Google Gadgets can now be embedded on your own webpage. I try to embed a few of them for my initial exploration on it. http://www.stevenchoy.com/wordpress/try-google-gadgets-on-wordpress/ Finally, my attempt to do instructional blogging has put into action. I used WordPress to build a course blog for teaching of Software Engineering. My minimal expectation is a place for me to archive the teaching and learning of the course and to support student learning during the course of ... http://www.stevenchoy.com/wordpress/i-practise-instructional-blogging/ The following lists a number of web applications that allow you to create online forms and help you collect and track data via the Web. I am very interested in this area and will take a closer look at some of them. FormSpring - Make Online Forms for Free; The easy ... http://www.stevenchoy.com/wordpress/online-form-builders-and-business/ I support using plain English in writing. I started to practise writing in plain English for some time. Here are the main ways to make writing clearer: Keep your sentences short Prefer active verbs Use ‘you’ and ‘we’ Choose words appropriate for the reader Don’t be afraid to give instructions Avoid nominalisations Use positive language Use lists where ... http://www.stevenchoy.com/wordpress/write-in-plain-english/ I record down a number of great Wordpress themes I found recently. It is for sharing and future reference. Flickred - by WP Designer - Live Demo Beach House - by Beach House - Live Demo Brajeshwar - by Brajeshwar.com - Live Demo WPAndreas07 - by Phoenixrealm - Live Demo LivingOS-Alpha ... http://www.stevenchoy.com/wordpress/six-wordpress-themes-i-like-recently/ activeCollab is an open-source, web based collaboration and project management tool. I am excited about it after reading some materials from the web. Here I record down the steps I installed it on my newly installed Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) LAMP Server. I only use Putty (login as root ... http://www.stevenchoy.com/wordpress/install-activecollab-on-ubuntu-server/ I record down the steps I installed phpMyAdmin 2.8.2 on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) LAMP Server. They may be useful for my future reference. I can also pass this post to my friends who need to install phpMyAdmin on their web servers. Please be reminded that the following steps are ... http://www.stevenchoy.com/wordpress/install-phpmyadmin-on-ubuntu-server/ I learned from my friend that e107 is a promising open-source contents management system (CMS). It received very favorable comments as well as ever increasing supports from the community in recent few years. I once was a fan of PostNuke and then Mambo. He commented that the project activity of ... http://www.stevenchoy.com/wordpress/is-e107-good-for-building-a-school-website/ The following are three PHP scripts for creating and maintaining web-based Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) systems. They are all free of charge and can use MySQL as database in the backend. I also try to google them to see if there are any example websites that make a good use ... http://www.stevenchoy.com/wordpress/php-scripts-for-creating-and-managing-faq-systems/ I did not go to here to record what I read and learned for more than one month, since I was quite busy in my day job as well as busy building a number of new websites in my spare time. Here is the first one that I would like ... http://www.stevenchoy.com/wordpress/use-wordpress-not-to-blog/ Recently Google introduced a new tool called Google Trends that helps find facts and trends related to search and news. I played it for a while and found the following interesting fact. I asked: Which country cares more about Hong Kong? Google Trends said: Singapore. I asked: Which country cares more ... http://www.stevenchoy.com/wordpress/which-countries-care-more-about-hong-kong-and-her-universities/