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A while back<\/a> I backed Next Generation LiveCode (Open Source) by RunRev Ltd on Kickstarter<\/a> this week RUNRev released the Community Edition<\/a> of LiveCode.<\/p>\n North Lanarkshire, where I work, is just starting to roll out Livecode to the high schools to their computing departments. Although I deal with primaries, this is quite exciting, I am a fairly longtime HyperCard and SuperCard<\/a> user and Livecode shares the philosophy and english like scripting language of these wonderful tools.<\/p>\n Some of the links added to my pinboard<\/a> this weekend:<\/p>\n I’ve noticed SNAP! (Build Your Own Blocks)<\/a> for a while, this Scratch clone, runs in a browser and works fairly well on an iPad. I took it for a brief spin this afternoon.<\/p>\n Sometimes dragging was a wee bit sticky and obviously arrow key message and the like are not present on the iPad, but worth a deeper look.<\/p>\n After updating a couple of simple web apps<\/a> last week, I was greatly impressed by Forecast<\/a>, its not a web app its an app you install from the web.<\/em>, of course in a completely different league from my scratchings, very impressive.<\/p>\n I’ve been struggling to move Radio Edutalk<\/a> away from posterous. Just for fun I tested Justmigrate<\/a> which claims to Move Posterous to Tumblr in few clicks<\/em> and it does: enviable stuff<\/a>. The first 100 posts are free, after that it cost money. I just move 100. (I now seem to have 3 tumblr blogs, one auto posts using ifttt<\/a>, one for animated gifs and now this new one.)<\/p>\n Speaking of animated gifs: The increasingly hairy Doug Belshaw<\/a> (That is not<\/b> him on the left) was collecting animatedgifs<\/a> I did a wee bit of scraping to throw the etherpad list of urls onto a page: Doug’s Gifs<\/a> which should get your laptop fan blowing.<\/p>\n I’ve done a wee bit of webscraping in the past (for instance Which Way?<\/a> which users ScraperWiki<\/a> which didn’t exactly stretch the power of scraperwiki), but this is even simpler, just a php page with a regularExpression to grab all gif urls. I still do not really understand the magic of regEx but you can get a lot from google.<\/p>\n Tweeting my last post here I got a reply from Theo<\/a> pointing to his new blog “Things May Come and Things May Go<\/a> which I’ve been enjoying, this post: Open Education Priorities (Schools)<\/a> asks some good questions of schools, I suspect the answers might disappoint.<\/p>\n![\"Pinboard\"](\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/images\/2013-04\/2013-04-15_pinboard.png\")
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