Tag: portal

  • Luminis: Forcing CSS/JavaScript Updates to Clients

    [[innerindex]] Introduction I gave a talk at SunGard Summit in Anaheim this spring on Plymouth State‘s portal (myPlymouth). There were a number of really great questions that came up following my presentation, one of which is the topic of this post: “How do you force a client’s browser to always use the correct version of…

  • Art: Turkey Sketch

    I’ve begun the design of custom headers for holiday themed portal action in Plymouth State University‘s portal. Here’s a quick turkey sketch I did with my Wacom tablet in preparation for a Thanksgiving themed header. I’m still a little undecided on what I plan to do with the header as a whole. I have a…

  • Summit 2007 Presentation Proposal

    Like Zach, its time for me to submit my Summit Presentation Proposals. My plans for submitting presentations for Student Query v2.0 and Course Query v2.0 were smashed when competing priorities at work prevented me from pushing forward with those projects. They remain in the same state as last year. Regardless, I still have one presentation…

  • Valve: Portal

    From Xboxyde: Valve just released this first trailer of Portal, their very experimental first person puzzle game announced with the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Half Life 2/Team Fortress 2. Clearly Prey gave the Valve developers some very nice ideas about how use this cool technology. After watching the trailer…wow. This game looks awesome.…

  • Google Widgets

    In my recent post on Windows Live Gadgets I shot down Google because they hadn’t already created their own widget/gadget engine for creating hosted…well…widgets. It seems they were waiting because they could do it better. Today I found out through Slashdot that Google released their version. Their widget API is available here. At first glance…

  • MSN Start & Windows Live Gadgets

    MSN Start and Windows Live, which are competitors for Google/ig have jumped ahead of google and are now offering a repository for developers to create XML/javascript based ‘gadgets’! There are two types of gadgets. A remotely hosted gadget, where a site like MasterWish would create a gadget and make the URL to the gadget’s XML…

  • Windows Live

    I just read an article over at Slashdot about Windows Live. It seems that Microsoft has decided to attempt to clone Google/ig, while currently Microsoft’s “Windows Live” is simply a mimic, they promise to have much more. What’s Google/ig? Its a drag and drop portal-like web app that aggregates rss feeds and some handy tools;…