We wanted to be able to know whether people signing up for Ram Pages were faculty or not but didn’t want to add fields for them to fill out. VCU has an online phonebook with faculty emails in it but there didn’t appear to be a way to hook into an API. But you can […]
Month: October 2018
Weekly Web Harvest for 2018-10-21
It only took Oz govt transformation bods 6 months and $700k to report that blockchain ain’t worth the effort • The RegisterHe also reiterated the relentless nature of the vendor push. “A lot of the big vendors are pushing blockchain very hard, and internationally most of the hype around blockchain is coming from vendors and […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2018-10-14
Notes of Cabinet Meeting on Edmond Charles Genet, 2 August 1793. The Presidt. was much inflamed, got into one of those passions when he cannot command himself. Run on much on the personal abuse which had been bestowed on him. Defied any man on earth to produce one single act of his since he had […]
Weekly Work Log
As I’ve done in the past, I’m going to try to document what went down this week. Unlike the past, I’m actually doing this for an internal purpose so I think we’ll keep after it better. The challenge will be walking the line between giving enough context to make it useful to the 4 people […]
Clean Google Doc Cut/Paste into WordPress Editor
If you cut/paste from a Google Doc into the WordPress WYSIWYG editor you get more than I want. Mainly a bunch of inline CSS that sets the font weight (see below). This is a pain because it’s going to take priority in CSS land and undoing it by hand is a hassle. Some internet wandering […]
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Live Action CSS Editting
Jeff did a nice intro to HTML/CSS course today and made a chunk of solid CodePen resources. I did one small example but I got to the scoped contenteditable something that I’ve been waiting to use since I saw it come up a few weeks1 Anyway, new to me. What it lets you do is […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2018-10-07
An Airbnb guesthouse of horrors – The Boston Globe “Sorry about the confusion. Life’s too short for me to give you an explanation. Have a nice time in LA.” “I just know” replaces systematic reviews at top of evidence pyramid“After much research and deliberation, we feel we cannot ignore what a parent or conspiracy theorist […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2018-09-30
DeVos’ security detail projected to cost up to $7.7M during the next year – POLITICOThe Marshals Service said the final cost of protection for DeVos in fiscal 2018 was $6.79 million. Dork Money Defeats Dark Money on Twitter: “This 6.5 MB Bloomberg article injects targeted code into your browser and pings back to a suite […]
Top Hat Content Rescue Bookmarklet
We have more and more people building things in Top Hat. Top Hat has some useful features (and a very aggressive sales team) but it’s not a place that makes it easy to get your content out. I am working with some of our biology faculty who have gotten an Open Stax textbook in there […]
Real Life Math or Window Ad?
Windows come in many shapes and sizes. Some commonly used shapes for windows are circles, rectangles, squares, triangles, pentagons, and octagons. Source: www.pella.com One of those amazingly horrible attempts at making something “real world” in a textbook. This is a high school math textbook. The source for this staggering information is a website that sells […]