12 March 2009 · Jeff McClurken’s recent post, “Writing a Strategic Plan for Academic Technologies and Libraries,” asks a really great question: If given the task of writing a strategic plan for a small institution, what would your top academic technology goals be? After teaching several undergraduate courses, and while currently teaching a graduate course, I’ve thought about my own goals at a classroom-level, and I think these goals could be applied to a broader strategic plan for a university. Continue reading…
New (and Updated) WordPress Plugins
12 January 2009 · I spent a little time this weekend updating some plugins I’ve had in the hopper. First, Zac Gordon and I updated ScholarPress Courseware to work with WordPress 2.7. Many thanks to Zac for helping to update Courseware’s interface elements to match 2.7′s admin theme, and for adding an easy date picker to the schedule edit [...] Continue reading…
Part Four: Front-End Development
11 October 2008 · 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 [...] Continue reading…
THATPodcast
27 January 2008 · 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 [...] Continue reading…
In the Works
14 November 2007 ·
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.
Listing Pages with WordPress
24 August 2006 ·
For you WordPress geeks out there: I’ve recently had the need to list the child pages of a particular page in addition to listing those same pages once you visit a child page. In this case, I only have one level of child pages