Category: DesDevHack
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Plumbing Project: Yahoo! Pipes for Aggregating Comments across a Syndicated Course Blog
So last week I mentioned that after figuring out how to display comment counts on syndicated posts, the next hurdle was to figure out how to display the most recent…
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Displaying Comment Counts on Syndicated WordPress Posts (using FeedWordPress)
So here’s something neat that I figured out how to do on Jim’s DS106 class (soon to be available on my own course site). As you may know, both sites…
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Creating a (Rube Goldberg) Digital Storytelling Assignment Repository
Jim’s already done a pretty good job of summarizing the approach I took to building a tool for his online DS106 class which allows visitors to submit assignments. But I…
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Faculty Academy Web Site Unraveled: But. Um. Why?
It occurred to me after I published yesterday’s post that I should probably talk about why I think it’s important to do all the things I was trying to do…
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Faculty Academy Web Site Unraveled: Using Free & Open Source Tools for a Conference Web Site
Over the next week or so, I’m planning on putting up a bunch of posts about the work I did this year on the Faculty Academy Web site. Every year,…
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WP as C(ontent)MS: Square Peg, Round Hole Anyone?
These days, I feel like I spend a great deal of my time figuring out how to tweak WordPress to work as a simple but elegant content management system. In…
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A Data Sandwich: Dabble DB, Google Spreadsheet, and Exhibit
I had such high hopes to do some serious blogging over our two week Christmas break. I have about a dozen posts brewing in my head, and I’m just trying…
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DTLT Revamp: Custom Fields Are Your Friends
This post is the second in a series that I’m writing about my experiments with redesigning the DTLT Web site. You can read the introduction here. You can see all…