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2012 Conference

Securing the Open Source CMS Doesn’t Take a Dissertation

Securing the Open Source CMS Doesn’t Take a Dissertation Chris Wiegman, Web Developer, St. Edward’s University We are talking about protecting the brand not just the data. Open source does not mean amateur. Yet open source CMS systems are not designed to keep critical dates secure. Yet there are numerous add ons etc to help […]

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​Your CMS is the Elephant in the Room

Your CMS is the Elephant in the Room Jeff Abuzzahab, Web and Multimedia Lead, University of Minnesota Jeff Abuzzahab is going to tell us about the elephant in the room. Downton Abbey = HigherEd “don’t rock the boat.” Put people first and then content – worry less about a unilateral CMS deployment. They spent years […]

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2011 Conference

Plug It In: Writing Better WordPress Plugins #heweb11

View Session Description and Presenter Bio Photo by MetalRiot, Flickr. Thought I can’t talk for everyone, many developers would agree that WordPress is for real. It flexes, scales, and, generally knocks the socks off other CMS or blogging systems. But there are times you need to extend WordPress with a plugin, and Curtiss Grymala, from the […]

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2011 Conference

Swingin’ with Sinatra: Small Apps Fast #heweb11

View Session Details and Presenter’s Bio. Photo courtesy Wikipedia. A recap of this session will be posted shortly.

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2011 Conference

Feeding the Beast: Fostering an API Culture #heweb11

View Session Details and Presenter’s Bio. I’m going to just start with the takeaways: Developing relationships is key — with other developers, with IT teams, with content owners.   It makes doing your job easier. It takes work … it’s worth it. COMMIT to the openness of your data Create RELATIONSHIPS with other developers on […]

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Rip Into Your Site With jQuery #heweb11

View Session Description and Presenter Bio Jason was a pinch-hitter for this session about miscellaneous jQuery bits – and provided us with 45 minutes of demoing jQuery live on various website. The purpose of the demo was to show some ways you can use jQuery in a development/debugging sense — as well as just some […]

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2011 Conference

Making a CSS Framework that Works for You #heweb11

View Session Details and Presenter’s Bio. Photo by #avril# (pause), Flickr. This happens: You pick up that project from four years ago and know that all the CSS needs to be re-done. Honestly, though, you’d probably rather scream into a pillow than rewrite everything from scratch. Dan Sagisser, who lead’s Minnesota’s web standard’s group, has a […]