The document discusses how sharing slideshows online can increase learning and collaboration. It provides several tools for publishing slideshows, such as Slideshare.net, SlideRocket, and Zoho Show. By sharing ideas and allowing others to provide feedback, learning becomes more social and authentic compared to traditional school settings. Publishing slideshows online also helps connect with interested audiences and expand discussions.
The document discusses how sharing slideshows online can increase learning and collaboration. It provides several tools for publishing slideshows, such as Slideshare.net, SlideRocket, and Zoho Show. By sharing ideas and allowing others to provide feedback, learning becomes more social and authentic compared to traditional school settings. Publishing slideshows online also helps connect with interested audiences and expand discussions.
The document discusses tools for debugging production applications, including airbrake_tools and air_man for monitoring exceptions, request_recorder for tracking HTTP requests and logs, and ultragrep for searching and analyzing logs, and it emphasizes the importance of understanding exceptions, logs, and reproducing issues before deploying fixes. It also mentions that the author is hiring for Ruby, Ember, and DevOps roles in San Francisco.
FastGettext is a simple, safe, and fast library for internationalization and localization of text in Ruby applications. It provides concise syntax for translations and is 18 times faster and uses much less memory than other i18n libraries like GetText. FastGettext is well suited for most Ruby applications but may not be the best option for building large frameworks or plugins.
For 3.8 billion years, energy from the sun charged the Earth's "battery" in the form of fossil fuels that were slowly accumulated. However, humans have been rapidly consuming this stored energy from fossil fuels over just a short period of time. To recharge the battery, either stop using fossil fuels for another 3.8 billion years or transition quickly to solar energy for a clean, sustainable future.
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This document discusses several projects and tools by Michael Grosser, including:
1) I18nData, a library providing internationalization data for languages and countries
2) Smusher, a tool for optimizing image file sizes
3) store_with_default_protocol, an ActiveRecord extension for setting protocol defaults
4) RPXNow, a single sign-on solution
5) Programming Rubies, rewriting Programming Pearls algorithms in Ruby
The document discusses providing incentives for citizens' participation in lifelong learning and distance learning projects as part of Vision 2020 priorities for MSTTE. Distance learning and lifelong learning incentives are being considered to encourage citizen participation in educational opportunities.
The document discusses several Ruby gems:
- Smusher, which optimizes image file sizes by converting between formats like GIF, PNG, and JPG.
- Has_a_location, which adds location-based functionality like calculating distances between points and default geocoding values.
- Acts_as_feed, which allows models to publish content to RSS and Atom feeds to share updates with other applications and users.
The document discusses the challenges students will face in the 21st century and argues that the current economic and education systems are unsustainable and need to change. It suggests education needs to focus less on competition and more on cooperation, sustainability, and developing students' natural curiosity. It advocates for preparing students with skills like critical thinking to build a green economy that serves people and the planet.
This document summarizes the key findings of a survey about location-based services (LBS) conducted across several countries. The survey found that while awareness and use of LBS is growing, concerns about privacy remain high. Younger consumers and those in the US and Japan are most likely to use LBS. Common applications like maps, weather alerts and finding nearby businesses are seen as most valuable. However, sharing location data with other people or companies raises privacy issues for many users.
A look at how nature provides us with services and how valuing these services is important to well-being. Slideshow from Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, UNEP