Mapping a Book Tour with Google Maps Recently a mutual friend of Jennifer 8 Lee’s put her in touch with me for help with a Google Maps utility for her new book’s blog. The book, called The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, comes out today, and she wanted help setting up a little map of her book appearances. The map is up [...]
Programmatic Dojo Drag and Drop While Dojo 1.0’s release improved the documentation available for the dojo toolkit, I still often find myself having to resort to reading the source code itself to get things working. In particular, dojo’s documentation for the programmatic use of some of its widgets and utilities seems to be lacking.
As part of the uPortal 3 [...]
Calendar Portlet Released I’ve added the initial version of Yale’s new Calendar portlet to the JA-SIG source code repository. The portlet aggregates calendar content from multiple sources and displays the resulting events in a simple list view.
The portlet was designed with uPortal in mind, but as it follows the JSR-168 portlet specification, it should be able to be [...]
Feedback Portlet Released The initial version of the user feedback portlet developed at the JA-SIG Winter Unconference has been added to the JA-SIG source code repository. The portlet allows users to provide simple feedback about the containing portal, and also provides an administrative view of the content.
The portlet was designed with uPortal in mind, but as it [...]
Google Maps Search Plugin Search Google Maps a lot? I’ve posted a new Google Maps search plugin for Firefox. You can download it here.
Getting Organized for a New Year I’ve never been much of one for New Year’s resolutions, but I do need to get a little more organized. Since I’m a mac user, I’ve been trying to get more of my schedule and todo-list into iCal.
I especially wanted recurring todos: a daily reminder to take a vitamin, a monthly checklist of bills [...]
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