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| TITLEDC-2005: Metadata Vocabularies in Practice DESCRIPTIONInternational Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2005) University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain September 12-15, 2005 [Call for papers and conference information] Metadata based on standards such as Dublin Core are a key component of information environments from scientific reposito... SUMMARYpublishing to education and e-government. DC-2005 aims at bringing together several distinct communities of vocabulary users: * Users of metadata standards such as Dublin Core and Learning Object Metadata (LOM), with their...... |
| TITLESelling Oprah and Howard Stern DESCRIPTION Quick quiz: What do Howard Stern, Oprah Winfrey, and Paul McCartney all have in common? Answer: All three are baby boomers... that's the generation born between January 1, 1946 and December 31, 1963. And when you're marketing to baby boomers, keep this marketi... SUMMARYage, their eyesight gets worse. The King of Copy reveals how to guarantee that your ads get seen by this powerful group of spenders at... ... |
| TITLECobol is to Java as Java is to what ? DESCRIPTIONI mentioned earlier I've been teaching Java to people steeped in Cobol, mainframes, batch processes, and procedural programming. Just how steeped is an interesting question. The first two days of the training project are over, I've made the acquaintance of the group, not one "slow" person in the ... SUMMARYechnology, even from afar. An interesting aspect of such a project is figuring out how to present, so that they make sense, aspects of the Java language that would strike no one as particularly "novel", that so many developers take for granted - but that nevertheless represent a sizeable gap with respect to Cobol. For instance, based on previous experience with students who had a similar background, I knew I might need to explain how the call stack worked, before introducing heap allocation as a further complication. I showed the slide with a picture of the stack and asked if t... |