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Scary Maven message
I'm making changes to the Stellar Images JSP pages, and using Maven for the first time to install my changes on our dev server. While watching all of the maven messages scroll by this one caught my eye:
[INFO] Exploding webapp...
Yikes! That doesn't sound good. Sure enough I did explode the application, too. Instead of boom it sounded like HTTP Status 500.
Hampshire College OCW
I just learend about Hampshire College OCW. It's extremely cool that this is a student-led initiative, and i hope they can take it far.
I left a big picture comment on their weblog.
I'm glad to read your thought on how OCW interacts with a course management system. One of our priorities at MIT is improving the flow of course content from our internal course management system (a mashup of a homegrown system called Stellar and Sakai) to OCW. Another angle to consider in the long term is improving the flow in the other direction. How can an instructor teaching a course (say an intro to Victorian literature) take advantage of the materials that are in their local OCW? And what about that great Robert Louis Stevenson module in the Tufts OCW, how can they bring that in to their course?