I know. The title is pure click-bait. That’s part of why this blog is so wildly popular.1 I’ve been building a new portfolio site2 and I think some of this is kind of interesting even if it sounds boring. There are a few different goals in play. One challenge is to create a site that […]
Read More… from Portfolio Work – Interweaving the Personal API
This is an experiment focused on getting content chunks from a Google Spreadsheet into a drag/drop web interface for manipulation then back to a Google Form (could be skipped but I did left it so people could add/alter other form elements as desired) and then spitting out the final product as a Google Document. The […]
I had a spreadsheet that entered blank cells when there was more than one admin for a WordPress site. So if Site_1 had two admins, I’d get two rows of data. The first row for the site would have- siteURL | siteTitle | siteAdmin but the second row for that site would have something like- […]
Read More… from Google Script to Copy Row Above to Blank Row Below
Radioactive is the book that VCU’s first-year students are reading. It’s an interesting book with interesting art and collage playing a major role in the design. I hadn’t really looked at it until this morning but I ended up in a conversation and an idea came to mind. “What if we could deconstruct elements of […]
Some people don’t have websites handy or their blogs won’t allow iframe embeds. They should still be able to have their students do stuff and get it all in one place. This is the Internet! And this tool is meant to deal with that. You can see a working example with three submissions (via a […]
flickr photo shared by Kecko under a Creative Commons ( BY-ND ) license Man. This was a slog and really highlighted gross inadequacies in my conceptual understanding of pretty much everything. That being said, with an end-around, it works. The whole thing is below but there were really two pieces where I got stuck and […]
Before Mark left us for the green dusty start-up fields of Austin TX we had a conversation about creating a better, faster way to do our examples page. The idea of having a resource like this is always popular but people don’t add content.1 My current belief is that it’s because it’s a hassle and […]
The challenge as initially laid out was to let students log the miles they walk and have those miles show their progress from Richmond VA to Key West FL on a map. I found quite a few ways not to do this- mostly because I was attacking the problem in the wrong way. I wanted […]
Richmond is going to host this bike international bike race in a few months. The more interesting part, for me anyway, is going to be 25 one credit courses each using the energy and activity of the bike race to power a particular disciplinary/interdisciplinary exploration. In the meantime, we wanted to make a coming soon […]
I set myself the slightly odd challenge of creating a few interactive poems using JavaScript elements. I plan to do this every so often for a while.1 Each creation will have my own poetry,2 an image, and some element of JavaScript driven interactivity that relates to the poem. The theme came about because I was […]