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Archive for April, 2009

[Friday Links] The … Edition

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

Not sure why I still name these weekly editions… They are a list of links from the week, good ones at that. Enjoy.

A Crash-Course in WordPress Plugin Development – Nettuts+
We ♥ Icons : Mac, Windows and PNG icons of the finest quality!
Minimalist jQuery: 11 useful plugins under 4K | jQuery Plugins | [...]

[Friday Links] The Inauguration Edition

Friday, April 10th, 2009

An exciting week with the presidential inauguration and all. Quite a bit going on in the web world too. Here is just a snippit. Enjoy.

Accessibility is more than “possible to access”
iPhone Development: 12 Tips To Get You Started [HTML & XHTML Tutorials]
Dynamic Drag’n Drop With jQuery And PHP
Heidi Adams Cool – [...]

Presidential inauguration and ustream.tv – overwhelming success

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

Yesterday was president Noren’s inauguration ceremony. In addition to the traditional event promotion we did a few new things on the web.
Full width homepage banner
Because of the stature and importance of this event, we decided to take up some special real estate normally reserved for emergency messages.  We placed a banner in the morning letting [...]

[Friday Links] The Fast Week Edition

Monday, April 6th, 2009

This week flew by, not as many links as usual but still some great ones. Enjoy, let me know if I missed any you found interesting.

10 Useful Flash Components for Graphing Data
File stream wrapper is overwritable in PHP | Alex @ Net
Build a Better Tooltip with jQuery Awesomeness – Nettuts+
Real programming [...]

Publicizing our extended web presence

Saturday, April 4th, 2009

For the past year we have been present on quite a few social networks. We started out with Twitter last year then moved to Facebook and beyond. We made it a point to not promote our presence on these sites and see how fast they grew organically.
Recently I have been going around campus talking with [...]

April Fools: Degree in “Reflective Science”

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

This year we decided to have a little fun for April Fools Day. We decided that a degree in “Reflective Science” would be appropriate for a University. Of course we don’t have and don’t plan on offering a degree in reflective science but it did catch some attention. The link we gave out went to [...]