Web Services

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  • Gribly suggest as you type

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    We just added an exciting new feature to the Gribly: search suggestions as you type.

  • ColorFlashing with jQuery Enchant

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    Widgets, buttons, and doodads are always vying for one’s attention. So, if something is very important, what options does a developer have that will effectively and unobtrusively grab the user’s focus?

  • Campus Electricity Usage

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    We have revamped the campus electricity usage page that Core Services released last March with a new look and a new feature just in time for the National Campus Energy Challenge 2008.

  • Events on the TV

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    We recently put a new system live that pulls events from the college calendar to the closed-circuit channel 8 on campus–which includes the television sets in the campus center.

  • Did You Mean… Search Suggestions in the Gribly?

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    Finding people in the Gribly just got a lot easier. That’s right, you will now get helpful suggestions that may help you find who you are looking for, especially when you don’t know how to spell someone’s name.

  • New Profiles Browsing Features

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    We just added a few nice features to make browsing the new profiles an easier and richer experience. We hope that these features will encourage visitors to explore the profiles and get to know some of the personalities on campus. You can now browse profiles by department or by tag. We also added a visually…

  • Introducing Profiles

    Introducing Profiles

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    We have just put on the finishing touches on the first version of a new profile system that will allow faculty and staff to create a “professional profile” via their web browsers. We’ve tried to keep the form fairly simple and easy-to-use, supplementing the user-provided information with details gleaned from our master database system. The…

  • A web page editor for the rest of us

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    For the last eight years, Gustavus has been asking web publishers to use GoLive to create, edit and maintain their websites. After countless hours training, supporting, troubleshooting and consoling our friends and coworkers, we’ve decided that the madness has to end. We’ve been exploring web-based content management as means to simplify the site maintenance process.…

  • Fixing broken PNG uploads with MediaWiki

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    Our Technology Services wiki is powered by MediaWiki—the same software that powers Wikipedia. So far, most things have worked relatively well for us. Even a few upgrades have gone pretty smoothly. The problem However, when we moved to a new server last week, we were stuck with a puzzling problem. Any images in PNG format…

  • A world of new possibilities

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    This week, we were able to retire our old web servers and move to a new set. Since a server’s purpose is to serve content at all times, it isn’t something that you can just casually upgrade like you can a personal computer. It takes a great deal of planning, forcing you to consider how…