Periodic Fable

Thursday, 28 May 2009

The Animal School

Here's a heartbreaking video called The Animal School. A nice promo from www.raisingsmallsouls.com about how all learners are unique. Maybe it'll even convince me that learning styles do exist!
Labels: education, learning, learning and teaching, online writing school

posted by Helen Whitehead 11:07 AM

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Monday, 18 May 2009

ColdFusion skills dying out?

According to Global Knowledge, a CISCO trainer, there are a variety of IT skills which are dying - in that the demand for these skills is dying. And apparently ColdFusion is one of them. Taking figures from US job postings, Global Knowledge discuss the "death" of ColdFusion:

"ColdFusion users rave that this Web programming language is easy to use and quick to jump into, but as many other independent software tools have experienced, it's hard to compete with products backed by expensive marketing campaigns from Microsoft and others. The language was originally released in 1995 by Allaire, which was acquired by Macromedia (which itself was purchased by Adobe). Today, it is superseded by Microsoft .Net, Java, PHP and the language of the moment: open source Ruby on Rails."
I had many happy years hacking ColdFusion code, but have been meaning to find a better solution for a while now (as soon as I get time to reprogramme all that CF..). I've found that PHP programmers are in such demand I can't find a good one available... Perhaps also I should look at Ruby on Rails, as I've heard good things about it.

Labels: coldfusion, php, ruby on rails

posted by Helen Whitehead 11:59 AM

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Sunday, 10 May 2009

Free advice, ProHelp surgeries, Leeds 5 June, 10am to 12pm

This might be of use to others with non-profit organisations, social enterprises or community groups.

ProHelp has organised a day of Professional Business Advice Surgeries to provide community organisations and social enterprises with the opportunity to get advice on a one-to-one basis from professionals. Advice available:

Accountancy e.g. Insolvency, Public benefit guidance, business planning, financial forecasting, VAT advice
Architectural e.g. Design, planning permission
Legal e.g. Employment, contracts, IPS or CIC's, alterations to governing documents
Marketing e.g. Branding and advertising
Property e.g. valuations and lease agreements
PR advice

Taking place at Tiger 11, Unit 1, Ground floor, Hillside, Beeston Road Leeds LS11 8ND 10am to 12pm.
5th June

For further details or to book a place, contact Jo Crossley on 0113 205 8202 or email jo.crossley@bitc.org.uk

Labels: social enterprise, support, voluntary sector

posted by Helen Whitehead 10:09 AM

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