Delaware Web Developer User Group

The College of Arts and Sciences is using SharePoint as the CMS platform for its public-facing web sites. Why? Come find out at the DeWD meeting on Wednesday, April 18^th at 10:00am in Smith Hall 015.

Per Rich Duggan:

The CAS IT web development team will give a four part presentation:

1) A brief overview of the SharePoint features that make it attractive as a CMS for an academic institution (Rich Duggan).

2) Tour of SharePoint farm configuration and public-facing topology (Mihir Sheth).

3) Introduction to SharePoint custom site design using master pages, page layouts, CSS, web parts, etc. (Trevor Moore).

4) OmniPage – A CAS-designed custom page layout that gives content managers a multitude of presentation options while maintaining adherence to site style requirements (Eric Cantrell).

Doug

We will be meeting in Smith Hall 015 on Wednesday, March 21 at 10:00am.

Eric Cantrell will be sharing some jQuery and jQuery UI goodness with the group.

See you then!

Doug

This month we’ll be meeting on January 18th at the UD UnConference – being held from 9:00am-12:00pm at the Perkins Student Center – Rodney Rm 364.

See you there!

Many thanks to Chris Leonard for leading the discussion on mobile platform development.

Notes & links from the meeting follow:

Test web sites through various devices in Firefox.

1. Download extension at http://chrispederick.com/work/user-agent-switcher/
2. Download and install latest device list at http://techpatterns.com/forums/about304.html

Detect mobile browsers tool. Creates code for detection in Apache, IIS, js, php and more – http://detectmobilebrowsers.com/

Online tools for testing your site as different resolutions

1. Screenfly- http://quirktools.com/screenfly/
2. http://mattkersley.com/responsive/

PhoneGap – http://phonegap.com/about

iPhone/iPad Touch icon generator

http://www.mpowerinternet.com/IPhoneIcon/Upload

Stephanie Rieger: Rethinking the Mobile Web http://yiibu.com/about/site/

BrowserHawk & BrowserHawk-to-Go – http://www.cyscape.com/

jQuery Mobile – http://jquerymobile.com/

Modernizr – http://www.modernizr.com/

WordPress Add-on to format sites for mobile automagically:

• WPTouch – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wptouch/
• WP Touch Pro version – http://www.bravenewcode.com/store/plugins/wptouch-pro/

Mobilizer – preview tool for mobile development – http://www.springbox.com/mobilizer/

Making Sites Mobile Friendly (slideshare) – http://www.slideshare.net/dead_arm/making-sites-mobilefriendly

Tutorial: “Flexible Mobile Layouts with CSS3″ – http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/flexible-mobile-first-layouts-with-css3/

Article: Mobile Browser Cache Limits – http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/06/28/mobile-browser-cache-limits/

Article: How Mobile Browser Cache Affects Browsing - http://www.tested.com/news/how-mobile-browser-cache-affects-browsing-on-ios-android-and-more/521/

We’ll meet in 015 Smith Hall at 10:00am on Wednesday, Nov 16.

The topic of this month’s WebDev meeting will be formatting your sites for mobile devices.  Chris Leonard will share a little about responsive page design through CSS and formatting for mobile devices to get the conversation going.

I’m hoping we’ll be able to discuss viable routes forward for targeting mobile platforms such as iPads, tablets, phones, etc. in addition to targeting the desktop browsers.

See you all then.

Doug

The October Web Dev meeting will be held on October 19th in Smith 015 at 10:00am.

Greg Aluise has agreed to discuss the technology and development behind the BlueHenergy site he’s been working on. Greg will be covering:

Building BlueHenergy:

• Combining .NET WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) based web services with HTML5 like User Interface.
• Consuming a .NET WCF JSONP Web Service with ECMAScript (JavaScript) tools like JQuery.
• Building a cross-browser ECMAScript Animated Gauge widget

See you there!

Google+ has finally opened up for everybody – http://plus.google.com

This month we’ll be attempting to create a Google+ Hangout for holding a virtual meeting. Benefits are no travel time to/from the meeting (~4 hrs of my time saved ;?) and the possibility for more flexible and spontaneous meetings without conference room availability constraints.

Instructions have been sent out via the group listserve. Hope to see you online at 10:00am on Sept 21, 2011 or you can come hang out in person at Smith Lab Rm 105 (that’s in Lewes).

Doug