Navigating leadership, higher ed, and technology.
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The Return of Odysseus
After a long and arduous process over the past two months I finally purchased my development laptop. Oh, you thought this was going to be about Greek mythology? Sorry, I just happen to use Greek mythos for my computer and networking names and Odysseus has been the name of whatever laptop I currently have with…
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Content and Mission
I am currently in the middle of reading Clout, a book by Colleen Jones, and a sort-of-companion-book to Content Strategy for the Web by Kristina Halvorson. First, if you haven’t read these two books and work with web content at all, you should pick both of them up and read them. There is so much…
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Which browsers do you support?
I came across this older blog post today and it got me to thinking about which browsers you, as a web developer at the university level, support. The author had some nice graphs in there which listed which browsers he supports and to what extent he does. I’m writing mostly to get my own thoughts…
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Untethering your iOS Device
Listening to the most recent This Week in Tech, I heard the same thing from certain panel members that I hear from tech journalists all of the time: I just don’t want to plug in my iPhone/iPad/iPod into the computer (or something like that). The want/need for an untethered experience for your iOS device seems…
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Firefox Moving to Chrome’s Dev Model
Firefox is moving to Chrome’s development model of rolling releases, getting away from the large, cumbersome release schedules that have been the norm for the project for a very long time. Of course, the first thing they need to do is release Firefox 4, finally, and then ramp up the new production model to try…