Dec
17
Wordpress MU, Muah!!
December 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Wordpress MU has become an indispensable tool for building out vanity and other stand alone sites outside of the established .NET/ASP Content Management System (CMS) used for our main site.
I have been able to implement a variety of sites, from simple to complex, thanks, in part, to the availablity of free plug-ins that allow [...]
Nov
20
DrupalCamp Philadelphia: A Tasty, Open Source Success!
November 20, 2008 | 1 Comment
I’m really happy that Nathan Gasser and Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg made this happen in Philadelphia. The sessions were divided into Beginner and Experienced. I sat through all but one of the novice sessions and was inspire by, not only the great number of attendees from the East Coast, but by the passion for Drupal displayed [...]
Jul
17
Drop it Like it’s Drupal!
July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Ok, Drupal is Sexy and it’s Hot! I just spent two days at the Higher Education Web Symposium 2008 hosted by UPenn Medicine. First, the UPenn staff did an amazing job. Kudos to UPenn and in particular Ben Adams, the choreographer of the event!
I was lucky enough to meet Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg, a Drupal Evangelist - [...]
Feb
8
The Buzz: Create Your OWN Social Network
February 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I recently joined the University Webmasters Social Network (http://cuwebd.ning.com/) on NING. The flexibility that Ning, and similar (what I call) “SockNet” sites has big and positive implications for smaller Universities in particular. One-stop centralized do-it-yourself solutions like these can be leveraged in a variety of ways to bring University communities closer together: [...]
Sep
24
One Laptop Per Child UPDATE: BOGO - Buy one get one!
September 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Update on the One Laptop Per Child initiative: Starting on November 12, 2007 - you can help by buying one and donating one.
Aug
23
One Laptop Per Child Project Continues to Inspire
August 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment
This project that offers laptops, the XO, to the underdeveloped countries of the world is truly astounding on both a humanitarian and a technological level. A surprisingly well-written and insightful review by a 12-year old appeared in August of this year.
How It CONNECTS
This box connects wirelessly to the ‘net and other XO users [...]
Aug
10
iPhone for the Ubuntu Crowd
August 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment
This Open Moko Neo 1973 Linux handset is probably what the iPhone SHOULD be: a gadget to freely tweak and customize. the Open Moko software is in very early ‘pre-alpha’. It’s about the size of a Treo 700, with a significantly longer screen ( not wider) VGA display supports 640 x [...]
Jun
25
I Just Got Free Tuition at M.I.T.
June 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment
… ahem. Ok, let me clarify: I’m a virtual student over at ocw.mit.edu.
The OpenCourseWare site at M.I.T. gives me access to over 4,000 free online courses. For some reason, I’m hooked on the Psych. lectures in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences area. I listened to all of Intro to Psych 2004.
Prof. Jeremy Wolfe is [...]
Jun
17
Drupal Rules!
June 17, 2007 | 1 Comment
Very excited about learning my way around Drupal! Started playing around with PHP, installed Drupal on the server using the cPanel, and went to town installing a whole bunch of modules. I’ve slowly started migrating the flat-footed flat-filed static-cling tristatevelo.com site into a home-grown content management system personalized for the team. I have not been [...]
Jun
15
WordPress Virgin No More!
June 15, 2007 | 1 Comment
Gosh. It’s been feeling like I’m the last kid on the block to start playing around with all the open source goodies out there. WordPress: I have arrived at your door! I really want to start creating my own themes. I also want to play around with Drupal since I’ve been told by friends in [...]