Logging Activity With The Web Beacon API — Smashing MagazineThe Beacon API is used for sending small amounts of data to a server without waiting for a response. That last part is critical and is the key to why Beacon is so useful — our code never even gets to see a response, even if […]
Month: July 2018
Accessible ACF-Based Tooltip Dictionary
We have a bunch of world language professors prying at the edges of Pressbooks. One of the requests yesterday was to be able to create a mini-dictionary of target language words at the beginning of sections written in that target language. Mousing over the words would show their English equivalent. The intent is to have […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2018-07-15
St. Louis Uber driver has put video of hundreds of passengers online. Most have no idea. | Metro | stltoday.comJason Gargac, of Florissant, livestreams videos of his rides as an Uber and Lyft driver in greater St. Louis without his customers’ knowledge. This screencap from Gargac’s channel on the livestreaming website Twitch shows him transporting […]
Workshop to Event Workflow in WordPress
I have been doing little other than semi-real web development for three weeks across a number of projects. It’s a level of sustained practice/work that I’ve probably never done before. Who knew that kind of focus could actually result in fairly dramatic improvement? One of the projects is the reconstruction of our ALT Lab department […]
iFrame Height
We have a site on rampages.us that’s being used for the creation of world language OER modules. They’re using H5P and a variety of media elements with some text to give context etc. The goal was to be able to embed these pages on another WordPress site that is running PressBooks on another server. There […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2018-07-08
Super Punch: “ECOT, Ohio’s largest online charter school, officially closes”lies and theft in online edu . . . similar to lies Temple’s business dean engaged in This sun-chasing robot looks after the plant on its head – The VergeChinese roboticist and entrepreneur Sun Tianqi has made it happen: modding a six-legged toy robot made by […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2018-07-01
The U.S. Air Force learned to code—and saved the Pentagon millions“We don’t want to be anybody’s outsource app development organization forever,” says Keith Salisbury, the vice president responsible for Pivotal’s work with the federal government. “We want our clients to understand what we do and how we do it, and most importantly, why we do […]
Filtering WordPress Titles
As you may have seen here before VA passed a bill saying universities can’t have student email visible without written consent from the student. We had a legacy site that had student emails as part of the title structure for the posts. We had stuff titled stuff like This is twwoodward@ecuniv.edu post or This is […]
The ENVS Site Documentation & Program Syndication Aside
We’re on our way to building an interesting knitting of sites for our Environmental Studies program. Imagine a tiered connection of syndication that moves from student portfolio sites at the base through courses in the middle and up to the program at the top. It’s a pyramid of aggregation where the metadata can be added […]
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WordPress Multisite Network Footer Plugin
We needed to put a data privacy footer link on all our rampages sites. To do that I added this code in our generic network activated plugin. Then we realized we’d need to skip that occasionally for particular sites and that’s why we ended up adding a loop to skip sites by ID. It could […]