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Scholar-in-Residence

I’m afraid someone may come along and pinch me, to wake me up from this awesome dream. As Bethany Nowviskie has already announced, I’m going be a visiting scholar for Scholars’ Lab at the University of Virginia for the Fall semester. To say that I’m honored would be an understatement. The work that comes out [...]

Omeka Stable 0.10 Release

For those of you who haven’t heard the news on the Omeka blog or the Twitter feed, the Omeka team has released the stable version of 0.10, and in the process upgraded a few plugins and created some new ones.

Part Five: Maintenance, Documentation, and User Feedback

The last part of these series briefly discusses some things I keep in mind when maintaining a site after launch, some things I document for anyone charged with adding and updating content on the site, and some good things to keep in mind with regard to user feedback

Part Four: Front-End Development

Front-end development involves codes that deals with how things are displayed in a browser. This includes HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Back-end development, in contrast, refers to the development on the code and technologies that the end-user hardly ever sees. This includes PHP, MySQL, XML, Perl, or any other languages that affects how a site works [...]

Omeka Public Beta Release

The news is out: We’ve released Omeka to the public! It’s a public beta, dubbed version 0.9.0, but we’ve made some great progress since the first private invitation release early last Fall.

THATPodcast

As the crew from Digital Campus have already announced, Dave Lester and I published our first episode of our new podcast, THATPodcast. The first show focused on WordPress, and included an interview with Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress, and a screencast covering our plugin ScholarPress Courseware. Even though I had taken a digital history [...]

In the Works

After a few months away from blogging, I’m taking it up again. Here’s a rundown of what I’ve been doing the last few months.