Loren Heiny talks about concerns about MathPractice and FractionPractice apps.
I have always been concerned about all of the shortcuts available, such as spell checking, which are valuable tools but should not be the replacement for learning skills.
Just as most of the best improve musicians actually have classical training in their background…
just my quick just-came-in-to-look-up-a-phone-#-and-snuck-in-a-quick-look-at-my-aggregator 2 cents on the topic
I loaded my current opml from SharpReader up to Dave Winer’s “Share your OPML” site and it is linked under BlogRoll here on my site. You do have to log in to that site to people’s OPMLs.
I’ve also been fiddling a bit with my site configuration and made just a few slight changes. No biggie.
Don’t be a dope like me and miss the “Templates and Macros” section on the dasBlog site for how to configure your site. Thanks to Erv Walter for pointing that out for me!
Kathleen has an eye-opening post on the use of XSLT for doing code generation vs. doing it via .NET code.
Sean Campbell from 3Leaf, who with his partner Scott Swigart are known as “Early & Adopter” explains why paying attention to Whidbey today is a good strategy. This does not necessarily mean ALL of your attention, but it is one of the reason that I keep telling my user group members to at least take some notice of what’s coming up.
Simon Stewart had an interesting comment in my last post on this that it looks to him as though on the conference front, Microsoft is focused on bringing on board those who have not yet jumped to .NET and then the future products, but not as much on advancing the skills of people who are already pretty deep into .NET. (I hope this is a fair summary of the comment ….but best to read it yourself…)