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 […]

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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 […]

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Workshop to Event Workflow in WordPress

Will Wonka asking you to tell him again what WordPress can't do.

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 […]

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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 […]

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The ENVS Site Documentation & Program Syndication Aside

Example WordPress editor view for the custom post type publications. Indicates various specific entry fields that help keep authoring easy and structured.

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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