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[Friday Links] The Eventful First Week Edition

Saturday, September 5th, 2009

So this was an eventful week, something new every day.

Monday-Tuesday was a power outage at the main C&IT data center
Wednesday the Board of Governors meeting where the budget was approved
Thursday the high traffic due to the first day of classes took down Blackboard
Friday came with a water main break at Warren and Cass which stopped [...]

[Friday Links] The Rush Week Edition

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

So its rush week, not the Greek rush but get everything up before students start the fall semester. So as we are crossing all the t’s and dotting all the i’s here is whats going on outside in the rest of the world.

Ultimate Usability Testing Toolkit
9 WordPress Hacks to Encourage User Interactivity
PhpSecInfo: Similar To phpinfo() [...]

[Friday Links] The CRM Edition

Friday, August 21st, 2009

This week was all about customer relationship. As students were ramping up for the beginning of classes they started paying their bills and complaining about it across the web. Luckily @waynestate is here to work with them through the process.
Enjoy the short list of links this week.

Creating a Relative Time Function | Dev Tips | [...]

[Friday Links] The Bitter Sweet Edition

Friday, August 14th, 2009

A bitter sweet week with new beginnings, Rob Vrabel starting back in our department and sad endings, Jake Williams, our summer Biztech summer intern leaving. It’s been a crazy few weeks as we race to get everything up before school starts so I have missed a few link lists so I compiled a kick butt [...]

[Friday Links] The eduWeb Edition

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

This last week a lot of the higher education web workers were at the eduWeb conference in Chicago. Unfortunately we could not make it but were able to follow the whole conference on Twitter, Slideshare and Flickr.

Carsonified ยป 20 Steps to Better Wireframing
CHART OF THE DAY: How People Share Content On The Web
jHtmlArea – The [...]

[Friday Links] The CSS3 Edition

Saturday, July 18th, 2009

Another big week for talking about HTML5. The web is advancing the everyone is on board. Just wish IE6 would fade away, I posted a quick overview of wayne.edu statistics this week and still ~20% of all traffic is from IE6. Enjoy these links of the week.

IS HTML5 READY YET?
John Resig – HTML 5 Parsing
HTML [...]

[Friday Links] The HTML5 Edition

Saturday, July 11th, 2009

The week flew by and a ton of stuff got done. You can see from our recently launched sites we have been putting up about 3 per week this month, we are very proud about this. Looks like the other web workers have also been very busy, checkout the links below to see what has [...]

[Friday Links] The Fourth of July Edition

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

This week has been crazy in the office. Although we have been pumping out sites and updates believe it or not there is more to come. Additions to the calendar for Welcome Back Week, FOCIS announcements and big things from the office of development. Stay tuned as we break it down for you.
In the mean [...]

[Friday Links] The Summer Edition

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

Its the first day of summer and Fathers Day. Not a ton going on this week but some great resources. No real theme, they seem to be all over the board. Enjoy.

Rails Magazine Issue 3 – Print Edition Available
MIT/Stanford/Syracuse Team Develop New PHP Intepreter-Based XSS and SQL Security Tester
Symbol Signs Collection
HTML [...]

[Friday Links] The WSUP Edition

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Do you know WSUP? Find out Fall 2009. Enjoy these links of the week.

Check My Colours – Analyse the color contrast of web pages
Designing for Sign Up (video & slides)
Sending an XML document object to PHP with jQuery
“Good enough” instead of “absolutely perfect”
40 Stunning Ubuntu, Mac, and Windows Wallpapers | [...]