That’s it, I’m fed up – I’m calling out Flipboard for blatantly disregarding ownership of content, costing me money without providing a return, and reducing my advertising revenues. Now don’t get me wrong, I only make a few quid out of my website, so this is not a massive problem to me (let’s face it, [...]
Blackboard is an academic tool, used by hundreds of educational establishments worldwide. It is a highly adaptable, extensible database back-end and web interface front-end. On paper it is quite simply phenomenal, in practice however I suspect it’s the worst ‘web-app’ designed by man. Hit the link to find out why.
This is the first in a series of posts by our new guest author Josh. Check out his website, and his Twitter. Now firstly let me say this, I am a hardworking student, and I want an awesome degree grade, very badly. However, I will not pay a lecturer any money over what I already [...]
Yep, there we go, I said it. There is nothing that I hate more than AJAX. Not very “Web 2.0″ of me, is it? Well, not exactly. That’s because this rant isn’t about asynchronous Javascript and XML. This is about people who use AJAX interchangeably with “Javascript”, who think that AJAX means their website looks [...]
Somehow I ended up on the Blackboard admin mailing list. I got a particularly amusing e-mail today, that recommended that non-university computers are not upgraded from IE7 to IE8 because they have “found some problems, [sic] when people access Blackboard with it.” They also mention that “[ITS] have done what they can to stop you [...]
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