The Project As part of the web team, I create and update dozens of pages every week. However, our newest launch, the updated PCC Foundation site, is something special.  Marketing had designated the foundation a co-brand. Meaning that it needs to maintain a strong relationship to, but is not a subsection of the college. This […]

Derek Tonn, mapformation, LLC I skipped this one before, but several people have been raving about it. The session is supposed to go beyond “save for web”. Clip art kills! The extra bandwidth wastes electricity for unnecessary graphics. 8-bit png is better for logos the gif… It compresses better and smaller. Interesting. JPG remove exif […]

Beck Tench, Duke University OK, I needed to see what beat me for the best of ;) Actually, I am very happy not to be presenting this morning. Last night was a very late night. “Really, really dense information and really, really diverse audiences.” She suggest that you can solve that by creating role based […]

Changing Web 2.0 from Passing fad to Development Methodology Kyle Bowen, Manager of Information, Purdue University Looking at buzzwords of yesterday: Webmaster, Information Communication Highway “The buzzwords of today are the litmus test for tomorrow.” But, are there any lessons that we can learn. Create many small releases: under promise and over deliver. Web applications […]

Michael Dame from Virginia Tech It turns out that today is the 6-month anniversary of the tragedy where 32 were lost and dozens of others were injured. The presentation was one of the most inspiring talks that I have ever been to. Michael is a great speakers and did simply amazing work during the aftermath […]

It showed up before lunch and the front desk at the hotel notified me. I never heard from the airline. Everything is fine, but I have no idea where it has been.

Carmine Granucci, Yale University Yale purchased their search appliance about 2 years ago. Because of the load (500,000 pages), they decided to go with the appliance vs. the mini. Price: $20,000 for 1,000,000 pages + extra for 24/7 support. The administration pages look exactly the same as our google mini box. Collections and front ends […]

Martha Gabriel, University of Brazil Unfortunately, Martha is currently stuck in Brazil and could be here in person. Fortunately, the staff here was very creative. They networked up an audio connection and she is currently giving her presentation inside of second life.  How appropriate! For a little while, our avatar (whose point of view is […]

David Anderson, University of Buffalo He starts with a little back history and then jumps into showing an example of Webalizer. But his internet connection was not working. Current the program he uses is Mach 5 FastStats – it took them about 4hours to churn over a year of data. Plus it has some cool […]

Understanding Hydraulics Using Haptics Michele Adams, Armstrong Atlantic State University Haptics: Working with the sence of touch. Haptic devices allow the user to interface with a virtual environments like they were really there. You can feel the virtual items. Devices include pens, gloves, etc… Applications: Medical remote surgery virtual simulation training telemonitoring Entertainment online gaming […]