GlowPlus: Understanding Social Network Integration
In a recent Holyrood magazine article, John McCarney (head of education services at RM Education – the current Glow provider) demonstrated a …
Glew Scalability and Security
Earlier today I read a great piece by Paris Gourtsoyannis of Holyrood magazine. The item was focused on what happens next with …
GlewTiles UI – an OpenSource alternative
The aim of Glew was always to develop a system to bring together the best of the web and OpenSource and free …
All that glitters is not gold: RM Unify
Aww, it’s a cute kitty There is no denying that RM Unify is pretty. I’ve had the interface as my Glow front …
#Glew – an open platform for learning with Single Sign-On
About me As many people will know, I am a web developer as well as a teacher. I have a history of …
Rebuilding CompEdNet
I recently spent a lot of time updating CompEdNet – the Scottish Forum for Computing Science Teachers. This post is a potted history of the site and a little information about what was involved in creating it’s most recent incarnation.
Toolbars go to Beta
Ok, this is exciting. My Consolarium/Glow Toolbars are now in beta. New features include a login manager which automates/remembers you Glow login and automatic URL shortening using the glo.li service.
Internet Explorer and Firefox Toolbar Alphas (with integrated Glow Search)
I’ve created two toolbars, one for Internet Explorer and the other for Firefox. These are for the Consolarium mainly but they also include links to other LTS content. These toolbars link to the Consolarium Blog, LTS Online Service, the Glow Blog, the Glo.li short url service etc. The best thing about the toolbar, as it stands, is that it integrates with the new Glow Search and, just like the Google Search bar, it will keep track of your search history.
Making Glow Better with glo.li
I’ve been busy hacking together some code to allow GlowBlog users and Glow users to access glo.li to make their own short urls. We all know how long Glow urls can be and wouldn’t it be great if there was a web part which automatically generated a short glo.li address for any page that it was added to?
URL shortening for the masses?
Today in about 15 minutes I set up my own URL shortening service using http://bit.ly/pro. This free service from the guys at bit.ly allows me to use a custom short domain for any and all shortened URLs I create using their service. I can also use my API key with apps like Seesmic on Android and TweetDeck on iPhone to automatically create my own shortened URLs on those platforms.
