Feb
16
2010
Wordpress is working on a new theme for 2010, called “Twenty Ten”
http://2010dev.wordpress.com/
The new theme supports a lot of built in options for customizing the banner, background, and typefaces. Kubrik was a great starting place for a lot of <= 2.8 themes, but with 2.9 and 3.0 coming out, it’s time to embrace the upgrade. Go Wordpress team!
Comments | tags: template, theme, wordpress | posted in Design, Web Development
Feb
2
2010
Dear Google Apps admin,
In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.
We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers on the Google Docs suite and the Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010. After that point, certain functionality within these applications may have higher latency and may not work correctly in these older browsers. Later in 2010, we will start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar.
Google Apps will continue to support Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Firefox 3.0 and above, Google Chrome 4.0 and above, and Safari 3.0 and above.
Starting this week, users on these older browsers will see a message in Google Docs and the Google Sites editor explaining this change and asking them to upgrade their browser. We will also alert you again closer to March 1 to remind you of this change.
In 2009, the Google Apps team delivered more than 100 improvements to enhance your product experience. We are aiming to beat that in 2010 and continue to deliver the best and most innovative collaboration products for businesses.
Thank you for your continued support!
Sincerely,
The Google Apps team
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Comments | posted in Web Development
Jan
14
2010
The WFU Energy 2010 Conference has launched: http://energy2010.wfu.edu/
Comments | posted in Design, Web Development
Jan
4
2010
A todo list for finalizing your Wordpress site
- Set up a Robtos.txt
- Burn your feed (feedburner) or disable RSS
- Create a google XML sitemap
- Add stats to footer
- Add webmaster tools meta tag
- Install E-mail shroud plugin
- Install TinyMCE Custom Config Plugin (add stylesheets and remove h1 tag)
- Install TinyMCE advanced and set up allow line-break option
- Install The Future is Now Plugin
- Install WP Super Cache
- Make sure that your Privacy Settings allow search engines
- Install a backup plugin like wp-db-backup
To be continued . . .
Comments | tags: wordpress | posted in Web Development
Jan
4
2010
The second, more official launch of the BB&T Center for Capitalism at Wake Forest University was today

We tried launching the site for the first time back in August but there were too many revisions to make. It’s looking much better now.
Comments | tags: capitalism | posted in Design, Web Development
Jan
4
2010
Thought I’d post this here, too:
I wanted to share a facebook application I just learned about. It adds a tab to a facebook “page” that shows twitter updates:
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=53267368995#/apps/application.php?v=wall&id=53267368995
It was difficult to find, I didn’t realize it was possible. For a long time I thought facebook only allowed you to push your FB updates to twitter, and not vice versa.
Hope you find it useful. They have a free and pro version. I’m using free.
Comments | tags: facebook, social, twitter | posted in Design, Web Development
Jan
4
2010
It looks like the willshouse.com is a bit more popular, especially internationally, than I had anticipated. Here’s a map of the last 500 visitors as of today.

Comments | tags: blog, map, wordpress | posted in Web Development
Jan
4
2010
Google is celebrating Newton’s Birthday today with a poppy javasript falling apple. Google recently added javascript to their homepage with the fade in / fade out of the text around the edges. Google usually adds cool graphics for holiday’s like Issac Newton’s Birthday but they have decided “what the heck,” we are already using javascript on the homepage, let’s add something else. I think it’s kind of delightfully tacky.

Comments | tags: apples, google, issac newton, javascript, newton | posted in Design, Web Development
Jan
3
2010
I just learned about Feed Icons – “The Home of the Standard Web Feed Icon”

Comments | tags: icons, rss | posted in Design, Web Development
Jan
1
2010
I love this subnet mask calculator

The IP Subnet Mask Calculator enables subnet network calculations using network class, IP address, subnet mask, subnet bits, mask bits, maximum required IP subnets and maximum required hosts per subnet.
Comments | tags: subnet | posted in Software, Web Development