Presenters Jesse Lavery – Allegheny College Location: Skyline II As a small office (or office of one) tasked with managing your institution’s website, social media accounts, and teams of co-workers and work study students, there’s a LOT to keep track of and not enough time in the day to deal with it. What if we […]
Presenters Chad Killingsworth – Missouri State University Location: Pavilion Ballroom East JavaScript has moved from providing minor interaction to a full scale development platform. Major application such as Gmail and Google Calendar have hundreds of thousands of lines of code all written in JavaScript. Mobile browsers have full featured browsers but performance and memory constraints […]
Presenters Nikki Massaro Kauffman – Penn State University Location: Broadway If content is king and user experience is crucial, what can we say about the experiences of people who author content? What makes a good authoring experience, why should I care, and how can I improve my authors’ experience with the CMS? The fundamental purpose […]
Presenters David Cameron – Ithaca College Location: Skyline II Where does our time go? Somewhere in the middle of our overlapping project deadlines, meetings, and daily emails, we are all just trying to do good work, but it’s hard to keep up. We do our best to stay organized with productivity apps and calendars and […]
Presenters Aaron Maturen – Saginaw Valley State University Location: Pavilion Ballroom East It’s possible to make a structured, consistent, API that can handle changes to logic and the schema. Sure, it seems like a good plan to dump everything out of the database today, but what are you going to do when something changes down […]
Presenters Stephanie Guay – Duke University Location: Pavilion Ballroom West After navigating the waters of not one, but 3 different CMSes for the same set of websites, Guay shares her insights into what works, what doesn’t, what’s great and what’s just plain dumb about Drupal, Plone and WordPress. She’ll even talk about her experiences making […]
Presenters Gaurav Gupta – Virginia Commonwealth University Location: Broadway WordPress is a powerful CMS but it can also be used to build fully functional prototypes. Headway theme’s drag and drop visual editor allows you to create and experiment with different layouts including fixed width and responsive designs. Use the prototypes to collect feedback, test for […]
Presenters Marcello Prattico – Syracuse University Location: Pavilion Ballroom East Yo, Grunt and Bower are new ways to help you streamline you site/app building process. Grunt is a task manager that can do lots of cool things like compile you SASS into CSS, move files around, compress files etc. Yeoman is a site/app generator. Do […]
Presenters Chris Nixon – University of Arkansas Location: Pavilion Ballroom East We generate lots of content and manage lots of data in disconnected ways. The University of Arkansas started a project a few years ago called the Campus Data Project. A not seksi name for an incredible foundation with a REST API that lets users […]
Presenters John Britton – Github Location: Skyline III In this hands-on talk, we’ll introduce Git and GitHub. We’ll demonstrate how GitHub is used in classrooms as well as campus IT departments. You’ll learn how to make your first contribution to a project on GitHub. We’ll show you how to contribute via the command line, the […]