This is an interesting article regarding how you know what you don’t know, and what to do about it.
McGee’s Musings » Circles of knowledge and boundaries of ignorance
Monitoring your curiosity consists of becoming aware of terms, tools, topics, and techniques that you are encountering in your environment, yet are not part of your current [...]
The Stingy Scholar – Course Catalog
The Course Catalog lists free online courses from reputable universities and institutions. Every selection contains multiple classes – usually a full semester – complete with with audio and video. It’s just like being there. Only without the hot sorority girl in the [...]
The rainbow interface isn’t pretty, but the content more than makes up for the sore eye. This is a great collection of resources to find free online books from a variety of different sources.
Free [...]
Appropriate Process
Appropriate Process is about tailoring all aspects of software development process so that the process is appropriate to the situation.
A process should be as agile as possible, and as robust as necessary
The selection of the appropriate software development process for an organization and a project can make the difference between success and failure.
The [...]
ProjectSteps: Pete’s Estimating Laws
This week’s posting was found at Project Connections.com. While meant to be humorous, it has many facts that need to be kept in mind when estimating [...]
Textbook Revolution: Education Improvement Internet Library
The Education Improvement Internet Library has free material to help students learn, teachers teach, and everyone improve our educational system. Free books, audio and video materials, and other material provide students with learning skills help and teachers with academic subject background material and both general and subject-related teaching skills [...]
10 Unbreakable Rules for Project SuccessMark Lilly and Tim Rahschulte
Why
do so few projects succeed? Despite the decades of increasingly complex
attempts to manage projects, far too many managers overlook the 10
Unbreakable Rules for Project Success. As outlined below, these common
sense guidelines hold the key to increasing your success rate and
delivering greater consistency across your project’s lifecycle.
Rule #1: [...]
FSI Language Courses
Welcome to fsi-language-courses.com, the home for language courses developed by the Foreign Service Institute. These courses were developed by the United States government and are in the public domain.
This site is dedicated to making these language courses freely available in an electronic format. It is an independent effort to foster the learning [...]
I have been remiss in updating this blog recently, between travelling, excessive work, and starting on my dissertation. Partially in response to that, and partially as an effort to keep my committee up to date, I have created a new blog where it is my intention to document my daily efforts and struggles through this process. [...]
Free educational resources roundup – Lifehacker
Check out these useful little nuggets of knowledge:
Free audio and video from LearnOutLoud
Get free e-textbooks from Textbook Revolution
Find free courses with OpenCourseWare Finder
Free classes from MIT
Get free webcasts from Berkeley
Learn guitar with your iPod
Teach yourself music theory
Learn to [...]
Textbook Revolution: Introduction to Probability
A PDF of an in-print probability textbook by authors from Dartmouth and Swarthmore. The website also has links to many other useful probability resources online, including a complete course on the subject. The book has everything you’d expect a print textbook to have, including a professional layout, plenty of illustrations, [...]
Plain English Campaign: Free guides: How to write in plain English
So what’s plain English?
First let’s say what plain English isn’t and destroy some of the myths about it.
It’s not ‘cat sat on the mat’ or ‘Peter and Jane’ writing. Almost anything – from leaflets and letters to [...]
