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Simple index card says it all (from Common Craft blog)

http://www.commoncraft.com/simple-index-card-says-it-all Thought some of ya'll might appreciate the pithy point of this card. Next time I'm in front of a whiteboard trying to explain why a page with 800 links on it isn't very easy to use I'm going to draw this graph! :) Continue

Added by Charlie Morris on November 16, 2009 at 5:13pm — No Comments

NC State's Accessibility Needs Survey

Please take a few minutes to fill this survey as its goal is to evaluate campus wide accessibility needs and set some priorities. Since this is the time for license renewal, a quick response would be appreciated https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGlkUklQeTB5MHV0dV9yMEg4THVNYUE6MA Saroj Continue

Added by Saroj Primalni on November 11, 2009 at 11:19am — No Comments

Google's Commitment to Accessibility

This recently popped up on Google's blog, though it would be an interesting read for some of you…

"We regularly develop and release accessibility features and improvements. Sometimes these are snazzy new applications like the a new talking RSS reader for Android devices. Other times the changes aren't flashy,

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Added by Mike Vysocka on October 20, 2009 at 8:55am — No Comments

Web Accessibility Survey Results

In December 2008 through January 2009, WebAIM conducted a survey of preferences of screen reader users. [They] received 1121 valid responses to the screen reader survey... http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey/ Enjoy, Mike Continue

Added by Mike Vysocka on October 1, 2009 at 9:00am — 2 Comments

Remotely Download Google Ajax Libraries with PHP

David Walsh, who blogs almost entirely for PHP, CSS, MooTools, & jQuery, has made an excellent post about how to download some of the Google Ajax Libraries with PHP. http://davidwalsh.name/download-google-ajax-libraries While there are certainly many advantages of having Google serve the file for you, by grabbing the latest copy with PHP and storing it locally for your own use, you can then compress all of… Continue

Added by Mike Vysocka on September 30, 2009 at 1:21pm — 1 Comment

Google Chrome Frame - IE Passes Acid 3?!

Check it out, it's pretty neat. It requires a meta tag to activate, but it might be a way for people who are stuck with IE6/7 to get a real browser experience. http://blog.chromium.org/2009/09/introducing-google-chrome-frame.html Continue

Added by Jonathan Champ on September 24, 2009 at 10:16am — 2 Comments

LAMP packages for RHEL5

For anyone running LAMP servers on campus, based on RealmLinux/RHEL5... OIT has started providing a yum repository dedicated to modern LAMP software that has been compiled for the RHEL5 environment. The primary reason for doing this ourselves is that RHEL5 base is painfully obsolete, and our previous 3rd-party repo has stopped maintaining updates. Full details are available on our documentation site here: http://xteams… Continue

Added by Charles Brabec on September 18, 2009 at 3:30pm — 8 Comments

iPod Touch clones?

I sometimes check out the cheap mp3 type players to see if any have added WiFi. The idea being that it with Skype it could be even cheaper than the cheap prepaid cell I use, and give browsing access as well. We discussed something about this on the email list in connection to the iPod Touch. I came across this, <<a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/08/myfi-plus-ipod-touch-almost-equals-iphone/" target="_blank">http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/08/myfi-plus-ipod-touch-almost-e… Continue

Added by Mitch C. Amiano on September 10, 2009 at 3:38pm — 2 Comments

Outreach Technology Looking for Part-Time Help...Again!

We are once again in need of some part-time help! We need a student help us with some of our application development for about 10 to 20 hours per week. The work will be contributing to some of the applications we have in development using PHP5, Zend Framework, Javascript (jQuery), MySQL, CSS, HTML, and XML. We can offer $15/hour. If you know of any students that might be interested in this opportunity, or you are a student interested in this opportunity, send a resume and something written in P… Continue

Added by Garrison Locke on September 10, 2009 at 8:20am — No Comments

Set Raleigh on Fire! #IgniteRaleigh 2009

Last night was the inaugural #IgniteRaleigh event at the Lincoln Theater downtown. If you are not familiar with what Ignite events are, the gist is that presenters have 5 minutes and 20 slides to talk about something. "Entertain us, but do it fast". It is basically a week-long conference worth of presentations, ideas, entertainment, and networking in 2 hours! #IgniteRaleigh had 15 presentations, some good, some bad, some amazing! There wer… Continue

Added by Jason Austin on August 6, 2009 at 8:46am — 3 Comments

A little off the beaten path

Via the 37 signals blog comes this interview with Wendy Kopp, the C.E.O. of Teach For America There are so many great nuggets of wisdom here that 37 Signals highlights, but I love these two most of all: About… Continue

Added by Jason Young on August 5, 2009 at 10:31am — 1 Comment

alt attribute v. title attribute

Love these nuance kind of questions about HTML and browsers. Recently I got a request from a faculty about any "trick" to make Firefox display alt attributes in images as tooltips. This is the default behavior for IE6,7 but no other browser. I'll not re-write the article that informed my response to this faculty, but there's a fantastic discussion about all this on 456 Berea St. Basically, h… Continue

Added by Charlie Morris on July 31, 2009 at 8:30am — 1 Comment

Open Conference Systems

We have been working, over in Engineering, on creating an instance of the Open Conference Systems (OCS) conference management system. We are now moving into an open Beta phase with the application. OCS allows conference organizers to handle all aspects of a conference from a call for papers to organizing attendees. It has the ability to be skinned, though we have removed most of them as they only changed color schemes. Dan Green's team in… Continue

Added by Damian Hall on June 25, 2009 at 10:00am — 6 Comments

New Tool to manage jQuery scrollable content... "TWSS"

TWSS: The Web Slide Scroller I've just finished making a test-able version of a web-based tool that allows you to manage the content for a use with the jQuery scrollable plugin. Did that make sense? Check this out for an example: http://www.ncsu.edu/project/njyoung-dev/dev/scrollable/ The tool allows you to upload thumbnails (the navigation bar), images for the actual slide, and manage the content as well (text, pub… Continue

Added by Nick Young on June 22, 2009 at 3:10pm — 9 Comments

Using Billboard? Help us advertise our new tool.

We've just created a billboard sized (1366x768) advertisement for our new Engineering Campus Map tool. If you are using billboard and would like to include our slide, we would greatly appreciate it. http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/maps/billboard/ Thanks, Mike

What is Billboard? Billboard is a delivery system for displaying URLs on a digital sign or screen saver. Created at NC St… Continue

Added by Mike Vysocka on June 11, 2009 at 1:30pm — 1 Comment

JQuery, PHP, and Screen Scrapes

Here's an interesting PHP snippet that will allow you to parse information on someone else's website using JQuery-like syntax to crawl the DOM. http://sourceforge.net/projects/simplehtmldom/ Without getting too far into the specifics, you can basically say something like: $page = file_get_html("http://www.espn.com/cfb/rankings"); print $page->find("#rankings-table"); Enjoy. Continue

Added by Mike Vysocka on May 1, 2009 at 11:30am — 2 Comments

Campus Map & Directory v1 tool ready for use/review

We've finally moved the Campus Google Map & Directory tool out of beta and into our maps/ root. http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/maps/ Feel free to play around with it. Let us know what you think. Suggestions for improvement? Features you'd like to see in v2? You can link directly to yourself using the following url, but with your own unity id: htt… Continue

Added by Mike Vysocka on April 28, 2009 at 10:51am — 6 Comments

Why your organization's web applications should not look like its websites.

Based on our recent discussions here about the differences between websites and web applications and their design, I wanted to give my two, well maybe ten, cents. This topic is a little more focused than those discussions, so I thought I'd go for the blog post approach. The topic of making your organization's web applications look like the organization's websites has been one that's come up over the past few weeks and is one that I have strong opinions about. It's important to state that I don'… Continue

Added by Garrison Locke on April 22, 2009 at 11:30am — 2 Comments

Web Graphics/Design Position

We've got a summer part time position available starting in May at ITRE: Vacancy Type: Part Time (10-15hrs/wk) Time Period: Summer 2009 Title: Web / Graphics Designer Schedule: Flexible Pay Rate: $12/hr Start Date: Flexible Work Location: NCSU Centennial Campus Closing Date: 5/1/2009 Position Description: The Institute for Transportation Research and Education is looking for a student intern to assist with designing, developing, a… Continue

Added by Greg Ferrara on April 17, 2009 at 12:08pm — No Comments

Can color blind users see your links?

Andy Rutledge made a great post about considerations you should make when styling text links for color blind users last year. I strongly suggest you read it. It's not as easy to see the specific color relations in his example, because the colors are applied to small pieces of text. I've extracted the colors he used and published them here: http://people.engr.n… Continue

Added by Mike Vysocka on April 8, 2009 at 12:00pm — 4 Comments

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