19
October
My coworker Brian Hall and I came across a posting saying “everyone knows this”, and the this was that you can use a hash to link to an id. Here’s a snippet to demonstrate: My Page With Internal Links Navigation A B C A Some content here that if relevant to ‘A’ B Some content [...]
7
September
Well, I guess the decision that was made at ECU to use the JavaScript API, not the Flash API for Google Maps was ultimately the correct one. According to the Google Geo Developers Blog, the Flash API deprecation announcement has been made. At the time, the Flash API was not chosen due to lack of [...]
27
August
My coworker Brian Hall and I submitted a proposal for UNC CAUSE 2011. I’m really excited that we were accepted! Our talk is titled “A Pirate Looks at Forty (Weeks of Mobile Development)“. We will be talking about our experiences implementing ECU’s mobile web site as well as working with Blackboard Mobile to implement the ECU [...]
27
August
I’ve been saving links to interesting WordPress themes in my Delicious account, and the most recent is a rather impressive theme indeed. It’s called Busby, and it’s got many advanced features. I’ve set the basic options, but will want to explore the nifty image slider that’s a default part of the theme. I also need [...]
27
October
Before getting into the details of styling PDF document components using DDX, I wanted to share two very big “gotchas” that Brian and I experienced: When declaring the DDX element, make sure you copy it exactly, including the (seemingly) incorrect space in the schemaLocation. When testing your DDX using the IsDDX() function, make sure that [...]
27
October
As promised, experiences from working with Brian Hall on the ECU printable telephone directory. We knew we want Adobe Acrobat (aka PDF) files to provide a reasonable platform-agnostic method of producing quality printed output. One of the features that we wanted is a table of contents. That’s reasonably easy using DDX, and you can see [...]
13
October
I’m delighted that my abstract submission to UNC CAUSE 2010 has been accepted. That means I now get to use the lovely graphic they’ve provided My talk is “What’s that Building? Using Google’s Map API to Create a Campus Map. I got to attend UNC CAUSE 2008 (the last held one; last year’s was canceled [...]
13
October
I kept putting off my upgrade, but now I’m finally running the very up to date release of WordPress. After doing the requisite cp -R to make a backup of the files and mysqldump for the db, I pressed the button. Done. And, now I even get notifications about the theme I’m using having an [...]
12
October
When trying to fully take advantage of Adobe Acrobat files using ColdFusion, you’re going to have to delve into the world of DDX. Although several bloggers have linked to the Adobe DDX reference so that ColdFusion programmers can get the full syntax, almost all of the links no longer work due to reorganization of Adobe’s [...]