I had the opportunity to work with Ryan Smith again recently. He’s been putting in serious work on on his website (Richmond Cemeteries) and is now turning a portion of that work into a book (Death and Rebirth in a Southern City: Richmond’s Historic Cemeteries). Ryan came by to talk a bit about pictures for […]
Category: Workflow
Get the PDFs – Google Search to Google Folder
Here’s a neat little pattern that might interest others. We got a version of the question below yesterday. Is there a way to automatically get the links from the search linked below into a spreadsheet? https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aedu+filetype%3Apdf+syllabus+education&oq=site%3Aedu+filetype%3Apdf+syllabus+education Then, from there, is there a way to automagically get the pdf files into a Drive folder? Step 1: […]
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Gravity Forms Registration – Add User to Multiple Sites
You’ve got a scenario where someone is signing up to multisite via Gravity Forms’ user registration plugin. The following function will automatically add them to as many additional sites as you’d like. […]
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Digital Survival Skills
This was a presentation the other day on basic skills to survive in today’s digital jungle. The summary description is below but it feels kind of pompous when I read it now. I will likely revise it in some way in the near future. I do like the core idea that there’s a lot of […]
For Want of an API . . .
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
100 Copies Loop
We’re doing year two of the Social Work Portfolio in Google Docs. I am opting to do the creation/duplication of the main files on the computer end rather than the Google Drive/Scripts side of things because of all the hassle from last year. You can read more about the full failure here. This AppleScript will […]
Email Templates in GMail
Another quick and easy option if you end up sending similar patterns of responses via email. We also use a more aggressive option that uses form submissions etc. but this one doesn’t require anything more than GMail account. […]