Day 1: Cincinnati is surprisingly busy on a Sunday morning. There are lots of shirtless men in orange hats walking around with cases of beer. The smell of barbecue and truck exhaust fills the air. Must be a fooseball game in town! After grabbing a cup of coffee, I decided to hoof it around town […]

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 […]

This is the 3rd time that I have attended the Higher Education Web conference. It will also be the 3rd time that I will present. However, this is the first time that I arrived without any major screw ups! In 2007, while traveling to Rochester, NY – the airline lost all my luggage. Luckily, I […]

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 […]

I just updated to WordPress 3 – took all of 3 seconds. Great work Ma.tt et al!