- Author: Dave Krause
The new Master Gardener Volunteer Management System is complete and has been launched into beta testing. We budgeted a month to give the system a total facelift and add dozens of features, and give or take a few days, we met that goal.
The most difficult part of programming at ANR CS is also the most vital part of WAT (*rimshot*) we do. Bryon, Karl and I actually support the systems we build.
For instance, I might be waist-deep in complex code, trying to figure out how to create recurring events in the new VMS calendar, and the phone will ring. The caller might be a new employee at a county office who needs help adding images to a their Web site.
The caller could...
- Author: Dave Krause
The Web Action Team started a new project yesterday: the Master Gardener Volunteer Management System.
Sound exciting? You BET it is!
The system is more than a few years old and punches you in the retinas when you look at it. Additionally, the always-vocal Master Gardeners and Coordinators have rallied for an improved feature set for quite some time.
Well, the time has come. The time has come today.
Besides a getting a full cosmetic makeover, the code is getting the equivalent of a Web enema. I'll be introducing more CSS, stricter adherence to accessibility guidelines and a host of new bells and whistles.
We've slated March for this project, so look for an update in June.
- Author: Bryon J. Noel
We all like new features. In fact if something is not new and improved well then we start to think of it as old even if it is the best thing available. Now I know that will never happen to the wonderful ANR Blogs. Everyday they are new with new stories and articles, but today I get to introduce the Blogs with more power than ever before! Today the ANR Blogs have been energized with Flash video! Yes, this means you can add your most powerful Flash FLV video file to the Blogs so others may see!
To power up your own Blog with Flash video simply upload your FLV file and it will be included in the post. Yes! It's that simple! Blog away! I hope this little sample gives you a taste of what the almighty ANR Blogs can do!
- Author: Bryon J. Noel
Part of my job on the Web Action Team (we need a theme song to go along with the name) is to maintain the ANR search engine. For this we are using a Google Mini search appliance. Which is wonderful as it does it's job very well. On a daily basis I recieve an update letting me know how our ANR search engine is performing. Every now and then, I get one like I got this morning; which is a little different than usual... Without knowing what the normal output is lets see if you can spot the abnormality below...
System Status: OK
Machines Status: OK.
Disks Status: OK.
Temperatures Status: OK.
Crawl Summary:
- Author: Dave Krause
Right now, I am sitting in Cynthia Kintigh's portion of the web tools workshop. Although we haven't gotten to the "how you can use this information" portion of the show, so far it's been an interesting overview of marketing.
My stomach is so sour from candy, scones and coffee that I may have to only eat one burger at In-n-Out today.
Cynthia just covered branding. The ANR and UCCE brand is diverse and difficult to convey concisely.
I just ate some Whoppers. They are my favorite treat to eat during movies. I'm not sure what the brown coating is on the malt ball, but I'm fairly certain it's not chocolate.
Now Cynthia is covering templates, asking if people like them or not. I'm making a list of the...
