Ezra S F
Ezra S F
@Ezra@www.ezrasf.com
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  • First Edition AWK

    When I first started in IT at Valdosta State, my boss had The AWK Programming Language. My initial dabbling with awk was based on the guidance of this book. I am impressed Amazon has the book in stock. I am impressed the sale price is over $70 (3 pages / $1 while typical is >10…

  • If a Learning Management System Was a Boat…

    I saw a CompSci.ca blog post for If a programming language was a boat… (through WIRED) and laughed at the descriptions of C, ColdFusion, Java, Perl, PHP, and Ruby. Java is a cargo ship. It’s very bulky. It’s very enterprise~y. Though it can also carry a lot of weight. Will carry a project, but not…

  • Gecko Eye

    Gecko Eye, originally uploaded by Ezra F.

  • GeorgiaVIEW Admin Retreat

    GeorgiaVIEW Admin Retreat, originally uploaded by Ezra F. Me working Taken by: Jeanne Ann Davidson

  • Why I Don’t Teach School In Georgia

    Are you less violent than a third grader? Probably so.

  • On Patents

    News of the USPTO reexamination results of the Blackboard ‘0138 patent hit Slashdot yesterday. Naturally, both Desire2Learn and Blackboard are cautiously claiming victory. Certainly, as this is a draft and not the final decision, the next 60 days could result in significant changes to this preliminary decision. We will just have to wait and see.…

  • National Debt

    Saw a graph showing the United States national debt color coded by presidential party. The intent is to illustrate how Republican presidents are the big spenders. Unfortunately, all too many Americans believe presidential candidates when they claim they will do some action or another. The farce is the President of the United States sends a…

  • Acks

    Does everything need to be acknowledged? Or can we just make some assumptions that you saw it, if applies, then you respond, I am thankful for taking up your time. I think this would save time.

  • Wrong Number

    A ticket our Blackboard technical support manager marked as really urgent was picked up by another technical support person who left a note about calling me. Except, the familiar phone number called wasn’t my office number or even my cell number. Nope, it is the office number at my previous job. Yup. I have not…