Long time, no blog.
I know. I know. I have no excuses. Well, no good ones, anyway. Instead, I offer some brief updates about what’s been going on lately. Events Calendar Upgrade I wish I had better news, but the truth of it is that the project is delayed. As you may recall, our timeline initially had a September [...]
Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.
Two entries into the University Events Calendar project and I am already having trouble coming up with good quotes for my post titles. This does not bode well for yours truly. (The above, by the by, can be attributed to Charles Schultz.) The calendar project, I’m pleased to note, proceeds apace. We had our official [...]
Q: What do you get when you cross a kangaroo with a calendar?
A Brief History Lesson First, the earth cooled. Then, Joel Seligman (former director of Campus Information and Visitor Relations), Chris Manly (former Nexus of All Things Cornell (TM)) and myself (former youngster) sat down in the Day Hall board room and hammered out a requirements document for the very first version of the on-line University [...]
Three for Thursday
A Whole Lotta Limbo After a long evaluation and consensus-building project, Bedework has been chosen as the infrastructure for the new university calendar. I’ve only just started poking around in it, so I don’t really have much to say just yet. Look for a Summer implementation in one form or another. Many, many details to [...]
panoply (noun) a splendid display
It used to be that the big images on the Cornell Home Page were called “campaign images”–the idea being that the space would be used in organized ways to further any of several specific goals. Examples of this are (but are not limited to): the series of images we run every year in conjunction with [...]