At our final official Praxis meeting, I shared an overview of my experience as project manager with the rest of the team, and I thought I would share some of those same reflections in a short series of blog posts. This first post reflects on some of the more technical and organizational aspects of project…. More.
MLA14 Roundtable on the Praxis Network: Rethinking Humanities Education, Together and In Public
[Cross-posted from my personal site] I’m delighted to announce that our proposed roundtable on the Praxis Network has been accepted for the 2014 MLA Convention. Here are the details: Session Proposal How can humanities programs better equip students for a wider range of careers, without sacrificing the core values or approaches of the disciplines? While…. More.
Announcing Neatline 2.0-alpha2!
[Cross-posted with dclure.org] We’re pleased to announce Neatline 2.0-alpha2, a second developer-preview version that gets us one step closer to a stable 2.0 release! For now, this is still just an testing release aimed at engineers and other folks who want to experiment with the new set of features (for more information, check out the…. More.
Neatline Time 1.1.3 Release
Thanks to Neatline Time user nancymou, we’ve addressed a bug in Neatline Time where fields added by other plugins to the advanced search form were not recognized by Neatline Time. (In nancymou’s case, the other plugin was Exhibit Builder.) So we’ve put together a bugfix release, version 1.1.3, that addresses this issue. Download Neatline Time…. More.
Graduate Fellows Forum: Lydia Rodríguez
Graduate Fellows Forum: Lydia Rodríguez The Time Has Come: Ethnography, Gesture Research, and Digital Technology Lydia Rodríguez PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology Scholars’ Lab Fellow Respondent Dr. Eve Danziger Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology University of Virginia Summary: In Western societies, time is usually perceived as a linear progression of events, but not all cultures…. More.
Testing asynchronous background processes in Omeka
[Cross-posted from dclure.org] I ran into an interesting testing challenge yesterday. In Neatline, there are a couple of controller actions that need to spawn off asynchronous background processes to handle operations that are too long-running to cram inside of a regular request. For example, when the user imports Omeka items into an exhibit, Neatline needs…. More.
Neatline 1.1.3 Maintenance Release
This morning, Kiyonori Nagasaki noticed that one of the remote API’s used by the Neatline 1.x releases went offline, which had the effect of breaking exhibits that included the SIMILE Timeline widget. To fix this, we just posted a 1.1.3 maintenance release that patches up the timeline problem and also includes a couple of other…. More.
Interactive CSS in Neatline 2.0
[Cross-posted with dclure.org] Neatline 2.0 makes it possible to work with really large collections of records – as many as about 1,000,000 in a single exhibit. This level of scalability opens up the door to a whole range of projects that would have been impossible with the first version of Neatline, but it also introduces…. More.
Arduino Rainbow Hack
The following was co-authored and co-hacked with Claire. Claire and I went to the Arduino Hackday hosted by the Scholars’ Lab on Friday. We had no idea what we were getting into, which made it all the more fun. Jeremy brought in a bunch of Arduino kits of all shapes and sizes, and various people…. More.
Announcing Neatline 2.0-alpha1!
[Cross-posted with dclure.org] It’s here! After much hard work, we’re delighted to announce the first alpha release of Neatline 2.0, which migrates the codebase to Omeka 2.0 and adds lots of exciting new things. For now, this is just an initial testing release aimed at developers and other brave folks who want to tinker around…. More.
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- Reflections on Project Management I
- MLA14 Roundtable on the Praxis Network: Rethinking Humanities Education, Together and In Public
- Announcing Neatline 2.0-alpha2!
- Neatline Time 1.1.3 Release
- Graduate Fellows Forum: Lydia Rodríguez
- Testing asynchronous background processes in Omeka
- Neatline 1.1.3 Maintenance Release
- Interactive CSS in Neatline 2.0
- Arduino Rainbow Hack
- Announcing Neatline 2.0-alpha1!