Monica Martinez-Gallagher Multimedia Technologist, Portland Community College Monica was supposed to present yesterday. Unfortunatly she was stuck in Albany, so we switched her  to this morning. I feel a little bad for her. Not only because she was stranded, but also because the Tuesday morning sessions are a little sparse (I, for instance, ws out […]

Or, What Happens When Your User-Agent Isn’t A Browser? Jason Woodward | Assistant Director of IT, Administrative Computing, Cornell University Uses wireshark to show what headers look like. What is REST? Representational State Transfer Actions are performed independently of other actions. Do something to a resource and tell me if it worked. Demonstrates with a […]

Building Web Apps That Work Anywhere and Everywhere Jason Pitoniak | Educational Technology Specialist, Rochester Institute of Technology I had to sneak in a little late and the only seat left was near the front. Sorry everyone. Code like it is 1999 Use plain old X(HTML) Follow current standards make sure it works for everyone […]

During lunch I went around and downloaded all of the recordings. The ones that were captured, sound great – unforunatly there may have been problems with a few of the sessions. I won’t know until there is more time to take a closer listen.

UsaeKevin Bischof | Web Producer, Xavier University Kat Hollowell | Web Designer, Xavier University Web team is located in the “information resources” department. They find that this is working really well. hey now have 9 employees and 3 student interns. They designate A, B and C level projects. Currently have dozens of prpjects (I didn’t […]

Using AJAX to Bring in Content on the Fly Richard Orelup: Programming Czar, Valparaiso University I was running around and entered a little late. But, it looks like he is still giving some background on ajax. Can get a flash like interface  without plugins don’t need extra plugins good for programers who don’t understand timelines […]

I didn’t stay out late with everyone at the tower club, but was still up past midnight going over my slides. Then it was up at 6am to get over and set up the recorders in each presentation room. Most of the setups were straight forward. One of the rooms however (the ballroom) did not […]

It took forever, but we got into Springfield around 11:30am. Luis, Karen, Randall and Jake all had workshops starting at 1pm – so Traci and I dropped them at the hotel and we took the minivan back to Avis at the airport. The plan was to take the shuttle back that was being provided by […]

The new vehicle showed up after midnight. I took the next driving shift and got us about 100miles into Kansas. Luis took the following shift, so I curled up in the back to get some rest. Now it is light out and we are only hours from the destination.

So the flight was canceled after hours of delays… No more flights out of Denver. Next possible flight option wouldn’t get to Springfield till late Sunday evening. Who knew that the Denver airport shuts down at 6pm on a Saturday? We decided that it would be better to drive. At 12+ hours it might be […]