The first days of a semester are always big for students and for hits to the Wayne State Homepage. 40,500 visitors the first day and 36,500 the second.
We are lucky in the fact that our hosting environment is setup to regularly respond to this amount of bandwidth. That is not to say we don’t have [...]

The newest version of PHPSimpl has been released and we have updated the code on the production web server. The release bring some much needed features to the framework and a few bug fixes.
We know this is not a widely used framework because we take an active role in its development and feature set. (We [...]

We are testing a new feature on the WSU homepage. It is designed to allow for quick access to the most common WSU sites right from the search field.
It works by using the characters typed into the search box on the homepage and comparing them with the site index. It finds the top 5 matches [...]

Google Reader has been one of my best friends for a while now and its a great way to keep up with industry leaders and trends. I unfortunately subscribe to >100 feeds and each day scan for interesting articles, I read a lot of them. :-/ Once and a while I come across a few [...]

Yesterday I started working on the redirect in the .htaccess for the homepage. The quick links on the homepage are redirected using ModRewrite then pushed through a php file that logs the action. This lets us monitor their usage so we can make sure the best possible links are available in this drop down. Here’s [...]

Over the past two months have been slowing down our client work in an effort to focus on the universities main homepage and central university tools. Being the second day of work things seem to be going as planned, we squashed a few bugs in the homepage and are discussing additional features to the child [...]

With the new year comes new endeavors. 2008 has started and we are back to work, here is a few things we are bringing with us.

Welcoming Nick West to the team! Nick as worked as a student assistant for about a year and has been hired full time.
A blog dedicated to the daily work of [...]