Miscellaneous
October 24th, 2007 — 3:29 pm —Just a collection of recent thoughts:
Feedburner Pro Now Free
If you’re taking advantage of Feedburner but didn’t want to shell out the cash for a Pro account it’s now free. This is kind of old news but if you didn’t know before, well, now you do. It’s interesting to see what’s clicked on.
jQuery UI Is Pretty Cool
So we’re looking to add a table builder to slate. Basically the pipes are too difficult for our users. I’ve been sketching out a number of ideas. I was even working on a draft version within our current snippet framework before realizing it wouldn’t work since we needed to render TEH within it. Now I’ve mocked up a crazy UI but I think it’ll be pretty cool. We’re looking at jQuery UI for our JS widgets. I also like the idea of using it for our new resource reorganize view. Be sure to check out the jQuery UI demos.
JSON Is Cooler
Keeping track of the data for each table cell in table builder I thought was going to be a bit of a nightmare until Chris showed me JSON. Used it a little bit and I’m really liking it. I had found a method to POST JSON data and I have to find that link again. Is that kind of thing included in Rails 2.0?
Some Uni Home Pages
During the day a co-worker forwarded me a link to the University of Oxford home page. Pretty cool, simple design. Make sure to click “This is Oxford.” Some more examples (and I’m strictly looking at design):
- Azusa Pacific University
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln really like this one
- Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkely just so unusual for a college/dept. page
- Humboldt State University simple
- Seattle University
- UMass Amherst
- Carnegie Mellon
- Cornell
- University of Notre Dame of course ;)
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jQuery UI is pretty cool… I’ve used the Accordion, Selectables, and Tabs (Tabs being my favorite).
Is this the link you were thinking of? With that object, you can do @JSONRequest.post(url, data, callback, timeout)@, and it will supposedly serialize the data (javascript object or array) into JSON text.
As far as Rails 2.0 is concerned, I don’t know much aside from the @to_json@ method.
This is the page I was looking for Re:JSONRequest.post. The one you have is just the proposal so the concept can be included in future releases of JS. I found that someone had actually implemented it. Haven’t really tested it yet though.
You are too kind. I had not seen the oxford design. Wow. Talk about simple. I like it.
We all really like the ND design. Personally I think it’s nice to see something different. So many school are going boxy with a big picture (and we’ll prolly do that too) that pushing the envelope is nice to see. Hope you entered the CASE awards for the site.
Here’s another one to add to the list: http://www.denverseminary.edu/.
Nice. Added to our internal list :)
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