SubscribeConspicuous Absence
It’s more than halfway through January, and I’ve made pitifully few posts. I’ve only one book in my meme so far (though, in my defense, I’m currently reading five books, with a sixth to be added soon).
It’s a cop-out, I realize, but I’ve been terribly busy lately. This previous week was my [...]
Using YUI compressor in a web project
Last year, I moved our small programming department from using JDeveloper and editing shared files directly on a network drive to using Netbeans 6.x and a proper version control system (Subversion).
After the initial learning curve, this has all been going swimmingly. I merged my first development branch into the trunk yesterday, and this branch [...]
Creating an admissions dashboard
This entry pertains to work done in the context of my employment. Please remember, however, that any opinions expressed on this blog do not necessarily reflect those of my employer or co-workers.
The Problem
Admissions needed help. They had been moved from their former product, Exeter, to Banner’s native admissions module. But Banner’s interface [...]
Blockquote metadata extractor 1.2
My little blockquote title|cite extractor for jQuery has been updated just slightly when it appeared to have funny results. It may have to do with the element.attr() changes introduced in jQuery 1.2.6.
It’s not a particularly disastrous bug or anything, but I’ve altered the code to check string lengths instead of looking checking for null.
Get [...]
Adventures in California
I write today safely back in the Midwest after spending about 5 days in Anaheim, California (for which see my previous post). My purpose in California was the annual Sungard Summit, a very large gathering of customers of Sungard Higher Education, mostly Banner users. It’s a markedly different kind of conference than the [...]
SunSpider
Last December, I read Jeff Atwood’s write-up about SunSpider, a new Javascript benchmark created by the makers of WebKit/KHTML.
The world of Javascript is an interesting one right now; it seems like most major browsers are on the eve of a major new release, many with new (& improved JS engines). With WebKit’s [...]
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