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May 2009
April 2009
Baccarat Basic Strategies
by baccaratlinks
Basic Strategies On Winning At Live Dealer Baccarat - by Dan The Poker ManLive dealer baccarat is not hard to play and has one of the highest payouts of all casino table games. Baccarat is one of the simplest ones to understand. It is in fact a simple ...
How to Make Money on the Internet
by teleprofessionals
Learn how you can earn an income on the internet. Tips, advice and strategies to increase your internet income and build a successful home business.
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March 2009
Application Platform Strategies Blog: REST in Action: Recovery.org
by karlcow
George Thomas was kind enough to post his slides describing the architecture of the recovery.org web site. The site is built using Drupal, and relies on REST, Atom, XForms, XHTML, RDFa, and SPARQL.
February 2009
December 2008
16 Useful .htaccess Tricks and Hacks For Web Developers : Online Marketing Blog - Website Development & Website Marketing tips and Strategies
by srcmax
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Here in this blog post I have come up with useful 16 tips and hacks to configure your web server.
November 2008
david nunan - presentations
by tadeufilippini
I have given over two hundred and fifty presentations at national and international conferences. These include plenary addresses at conferences in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, and Brazil. Here are the selected papers from my recent presentations. You can view the PowerPoint presentations by clicking on the titles.
Energizing your classes: A learner-centered approach
Brazil, July 2005
Developments in Curriculum Evaluation, Renewal and Design - PowerPoint slides
ELICOS (English Language Intensive Courses for Overseas Students Association) Directors of Studies Conference, 13 May, 2005
What makes a good language learner? - PowerPoint slides
TESOL Conference, Long Beach, California, USA, 31 March - 3 April, 2004
Nine steps to learner autonomy - PowerPoint slides
Plenary speech, Shantou University, China, 13 March, 2004
ELT Curriculum, IT and learner autonomy - PowerPoint slides
Featured presentation, KOTESOL Conference, 18-19 October, 2003
Analyze it! - An introduction to systemic-functional linguistics - PowerPoint slides
Invited speech, Sophia University, Japan, 10 October, 2003
Strategies for successful listening and reading development
TESOL Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 24- 29 March, 2003
Adding value to the ELT curriculum through IT - PowerPoint slides
Plenary speech, The 9th TESOL Arabia Conference 2003, Al Bustan Rotana, Dubai, UAE, 12 - 14 March, 2003
Learning styles and strategies in the ESL classroom - PowerPoint slides
Plenary speech, Illinois TESOL 29th Annual State Convention, Chicago, 28 February - 1 March, 2003
What is task-based language teaching? - PowerPoint slides
Teaching writing - PowerPoint slides
Teaching reading - PowerPoint slides
Teaching listening in a second language - PowerPoint slides
Featured speech, The 4th Pan-Asian conference, Taiwan, November 2002
English as a global language: counting the cost - PowerPoint slides
Spotlight presentation, TESOL, Salt Lake City, April 2002
Performance-based approaches to the design of ESL Instruction
Plenary presentation, Spain TESOL, Madrid, March 2002
On platform power: museums, authority, digital culture
by karlcow
My personal take is that the digital strategies and representations of a museum and the physical museum itself can co-exist but be different.
October 2008
Urban Screens Melbourne 08
by maxray
舉辦Urban Screens研討活動，展示新科技與新創意。
1. Art, Technology and Public Space
2. Urban Screens and Public Space Broadcasting: A New Public Sphere?
3. Strategies for Urban Regeneration
4. Cross-Cultural Public Networks
September 2008
Getting rid of strings (3): take your app settings to the next level
by ms_michel
In the previous parts of this series I talked about the problems with literal strings in source code and presented different strategies to avoid those problems. In this episode I'll explain how we can leverage the power of the Castle DictionaryAdapter to improve the way our applications access their app settings
August 2008
Marketing Tip of the Day... Daily!
by zacheos
Get a free tip every day on marketing strategies and principles. Develop your understanding of marketing and expose yourself to new ideas, theories, and research. Development of your marketing skills are just a daily tip away.
Monitoring performance and availability of an apps ecosystem
by BlueVoodoo
Focus on strategies and techniques for monitoring the performance and availability of an application's supporting and dependent services. This includes the underlying host operating system, the operational database, and messaging infrastructures. The article concludes with a discussion of performance data management issues and data reporting and visualization.
July 2008
Royal Pingdom » Forget about hacking - your servers might get stolen
by kasi77
When it comes to security, there is often a focus on the software side, thwarting hackers and other virtual threats such as viruses and worms. When it comes to uptime and availability, focus often rests on redundant power, clustering, and other similar strategies. We often forget about something that can put a stop to any operation: good, old-fashioned, real-life robbery.
June 2008
Into the Book: Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies
by knann
This is an outstanding resource....
Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Your class can watch our engaging 15-minute videos, and try the online interactive activities.
Behind the Lesson provides teachers with information and teaching resources for each strategy. Watch our 10-minute professional development videos, and explore the Web site for lesson plans, video and audio clips, downloads, and more.
CAST: Learning Tools
by knann
UDL Editions by CAST are classic texts from world literature presented in a flexible online interface that provides just-in-time, individualized supports for struggling readers, and added-value features that engage novice and expert readers alike.
Learning features include leveled supports to build reading strategies and help readers understand the elements of the author's craft; a Texthelp Toolbar for accessibility and language features; context-specific multimedia glossaries and enrichment activities; and multimedia background resources.
Cast Strategy Tutor
A free online tool to support students and teachers doing reading and research on the Internet, ages 10 and up. Strategy Tutor helps students read, research, collect and understand information better and more efficiently. For teachers, Strategy Tutor provides a way to easily create web-based lessons embedded with research-based, highly effective learning strategy and vocabulary supports.
Cast UDL Book Builder
Free online tool enables educators to develop their own digital books to support reading instruction for children aged 3& up. Teachers create, edit, and save resource-rich texts. Terry, an animated character, guides educators as they write text, choose images, and develop scripts for the prompts, hints, and models that will help build young readers' skills. Copyright 2006-2008, CAST. Please send comments or suggestions to
May 2008
Increase code reuse and enhance performance
by BlueVoodoo
More strategies and best practices for modern ORM tools. Learn base domain entities, behavior in the domain model, and more-advanced features of a generic DAO. They also share strategies for enhancing data-retrieval performance with the domain model.
Direct Linking Strategies - How to make big money on Google Adwords with direct linking secrets
by peloponi
Direct Linking Strategies - How to make big money on Google Adwords with direct linking secrets
April 2008
How to use mp3 blogs | New Music Strategies
by garret
How artists can use mp3 blogs to help promote their music.
Strategies and best practices for modern ORM tools
by BlueVoodoo
Although many developers use object-relational mapping (ORM) tools for their applications' persistence tier, some are confused about how to use them and duplicate code unnecessarily. This article covers the basics of a consistent, concise domain model and persistence tier.
