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Mike Malloch
- One line bio: I am director of software here at KnowNet and one of its founders. My mission is to help create really compelling and powerful tools for sharing and building knowledge.
- Location: Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2HF, UK try googlemap
I'm originally from Nova Scotia, on the East Coast of Canada [ map ]. I've lived and worked in Edinburgh and Manchester, but I've spent most of the last 15 years in Bangor, Gwynedd [maps ].
I am a software architect / engineer / designer / dogs-body / director here at KnowNet. I've been in computer science since about 1980, so I guess this is my career, but I feel as if I'm only doing this for childcare/mortgage money, and that when I grow up I'll be a philosopher or writer, or maybe a carpenter :o) Before that I was a freight-handler for the CNR for 10 years, going to university as a mature student to study Math when the big layoffs of the late 70's hit the railroad. I'm married to the wonderful Hilda. Two of her children are still living at home: Jake and Florence. I have 5 great and talented kids of my own, mostly grown-up now, living in Canada and Scotland.
Recent posts
- A debugging helper - use this form to send Mike your browser info
- 17-January-2007 This blog entry contains a little button which you can use to send Mike your browser information
- Thanks vry much Lucy - looks good!
- 01-December-2006 Got the file!
- ooops - now the new behaviour works in Internet Explorer as well :o)
- 09-August-2006 Please try again if you tried in IE last night and did not see the behaviour
- I've improved the behaviour re viewing more-info for items near bottom of the viewpane
- 08-August-2006 When you click for more-info near the bottom of the visible area of the page, the page will now scroll so that the entire more-info box is in view
- New version (v 6 beta) of Qualifications Crossing Boundaries web interface
- 18-June-2006 I've just posted a new version of the corssing boundaries interface - version 6 beta. This has improvements to the controls for choosing columns, and offers an alternative, plain, styling.
- Latest version - v 4 beta - of the Crossing Boundaries interface
- 19-May-2006 I've just posted version 4 beta of the Qualifications can cross boundaries interface
- Printable / preview-able PDF versions of the presentations
- 29-March-2006 I made a quick and dirty conversion of the powerpoint slides to PDF files on white backgrounds, suitable for printing. I'm posting them as attachments to this reply.
- A new and more interactive version of Qualifications can cross boundaries - a rough guide to comparing qualifications in the UK and Ireland
- 23-March-2006 This is a new and much more interactive version of the Qualifications can cross boundaries leaflet. In this version, all of the qualifications, levels, frameworks and organisations are clickable for more information.
- Illustrating in-this-site embedding of google videos
- 08-March-2006 Alan and Jamie Brown have been posting video to the google video service, and link to it from elsewhere in the NGRF. This post is just here to illustrate that you can also embed a player for each video help at google video.
- The latest version of the Rough guide
- 09-February-2006 The problem Alan noted with the QualsCrossBoundaries interface - the relative positions of scottish levels 8-9 vs irish level 7 - has been fixed...
- you can add a comment directly from the interactive version's interface
- 02-February-2006 I've added a feature whereby you can add a comment about the version-1 alpha mockup directly from the toolbar of the mockup
- A first interactive mockup for the Qualifications can cross boundaries information
- 02-February-2006 I have just posted a preliminary mockup interactive version of the Qualifications can cross boundaries content. Please check it out, and let us know what you think by commenting on this weblog entry or by posting a new entry with your views and ideas.
- FAQs / discussions by fine-grained row X column comparisons
- 02-February-2006 To me, the killer fature of an onlineversion would be to have links from 'deep' in the information / comparisons so that users could read fine-grained FAQs and participate in specific discussions.
- Qualifications can cross boundaries - the existing PDF leaflets
- 02-February-2006 This post begins the introduction of the work we are doing to create a dynamic, online version of the information presented in the leaflet(s) "Qualifications can cross boundaries - a rough guide to comparing qualifications in the UK and Ireland". I attach the PDF leaflets for Scotland, Ireland, and England, Wales & Northern Ireland. Subsequent posts will begin the explanation and presentation of options for "live" web interfaces.
- An example of filecasting - you can download the attached file direct from your feed reader
- 21-November-2005 This post demonstrates the merits of "filecasting" as a way of sharing files. If you add an attachment to a weblog post, it is made available in the RSS 2 feed for direct downloading from your feed reader. And since our discussions also support the 'editing APIs', you can also post and attach directly from a weblog editor. No-one need ever even visit the site!
- Guidance | crossref.org : : the reference linking backbone
- 21-November-2005 This post tracks back to a post in another weblog. By simply using the 'blog this' bookmarklet, you can continue discussions in other places, even other systems. Discussion no longer needs to be tree-shaped!
- Welcome to the Work Related Learning weblog
- 21-November-2005 This is a demo post, really. It's here just so that there is something in the blog before I show it to the team!
- Summary of broken links - part 1 : Link Objects
- 11-November-2005 Steve has created this list of possibly problematic links - links that do not return an http status of 'OK'
- Mike has posted detailed notes on pulling bookmarks from del.icio.us into any content
- 01-November-2005 This is just a reminder that Mike has posted copious instructions on the quick, dirty and general ( ie useful ) way to pull bookmarks from del.icio.us into any content you can edit.
- hmmm... try pasting these urls into your feed reader
- 02-October-2005 I cannot be sure, but think maybe you're not using the feed URL for this content. The URLs for several of the feeds are outlines below, in this reply.