Archive for April, 2005
Ah, bliss!
I thought I’ll share this picture, as it helps me to escape from the frustrations of my PhD… serenity now!
Flinders Street railway station
On a recent trip to Melbourne, I was able to snap the City Circle Tram in front of Flinders Street railway station, both are icons of a bygone era.
Just across the road in stark contrast is Federation Square, a complex of distinctive, modern buildings, an irregular piazza, and an atrium.
Mr and Mrs Clout
Now that I’ve got my blog up and running, I can now dig up some pictures to blog about.
I’ll start with this one, taken on 15th January, 2005, of my mate Stephen with his lovely wife Sarah. This was taken at their wedding reception at Sans Souci.
dotFOLIO
dotFOLIO is an ePortfolio system that I am developing as part of my PhD.
An ePortfolio is synonymous to an artist’s portfolio, in which an artist will construct a collection of their works that best conveys their style, skills and talent. In much the same way, an ePortfolio is a collection of evidence that demonstrates a learner’s skills and competencies.
dotFOLIO will soon be released as open source software, and will be made available as an OpenACS application.
Flickr rocks!
This vege display was the winner at this year’s Royal Easter Show.
This is just a random picture from my flickr account. Used it to try out flickr’s blogger integration… flickr rocks!
Hello world!
Hi, my name is Nick Carroll and welcome to my blog!
I am a PhD student at the University of Sydney researching e-portfolios and software interoperability through Web services. I am part of the Web Engineering Group (WEG) and core developer of a soon to-be-released open source e-portfolio application called dotFOLIO.
I have previously worked as a software engineer developing project governance software at Xylogy, and as a software consultant to start-up companies. I am also an active member of the OpenACS (open source web application framework) community of developers.
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