Lori Packer Web Editor, University of Rochester Surprisingly few people in here. I bet all these (after lunch) sessions are the same. Have the Heweb attendees all fallen into food coma? Obstacles: 1) Twitter is easy to mock – weird vocabulary and people don’t get it. 2) They know, but they don’t know. 3) Shouldn’t […]

Brian Panulla Independent Consultant, Panulla Information Systems Right On – another person from Portland! Why do we need a new web? Semantic Web is not a new web – it’s the infrastructure. It is not: Semantic HTML Warmed-over AI (well not completely :) Magic – there are many ways to do this. Why do we […]

Kristofer Layon Designer, University of Minnesota Introduction Here today to make a case for native apps. Designing apps with Web Standards An orientation to iTunes Connect Walk away with apps that work (not just a demo) iOS Table view != HTML Tables please calm down everyone :) 3Billion (with a B) downloaded to date. NimbleKit […]

You can also control your social world through the API. As you might expect Facebook has an extensive API. Personally, though, I am more of a Twitter fan ;) The API for twitter used to be simple. You could simply pass a username and password to issue most commands. Here, we are adding a friend […]

Media is cool and all, but don’t forget about the raw data. With Google Analytics’ Data API you can parse and display that juicy data. For the PHP people, I would highly recommend using GAPI (Google Analytics API PHP Interface) to simplify things! The following is used to display the most read pages on our […]

Player API You can control the playback of a video using the YouTube Player API. Here is an snippet from YouTubeCC.com. The full script is located at: caption-scripts.js var ytplayer = null; function onYouTubePlayerReady(playerId) { // set up player ytplayer = document.getElementById(‘videoplayer’); ytplayer.addEventListener(‘onStateChange’, ‘onytplayerStateChange’); ytplayer.addEventListener(‘onError’, ‘onPlayerError’); } . . . // return focus to video […]

Displaying Photos Displaying photos is easy if you use a plugin to simplify the Flickr Services API. This example uses a local copy of jQuery Flickr by Daniel MacDonald. Here is what the example looks like live. You will need your own API key. Even Better The following is a function that I set up […]

Displaying Lets get started with a simple map using Version 3 of the Google Maps API. Here is one straight from the documentation: example with marker Google Maps JavaScript API v3 Example: Marker Simple Dynamically Displaying Now here is an example that is much more complex. Not only does it add infowindows, custom icons and […]

At Portland Community College we have a huge student body, a gigantic amount of Web content, and a tiny little Web team trying to manage it all. Over the years, we have built a collection of custom Web apps to help us out. These work well, but take time and massive resources to maintain. All […]