http://ucanr.org/blogs/wat/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed What's new with the ANRCS Web Action Team en-us UC ANR http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/ Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:04:11 PST Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:04:11 PST We've added some new features to the ANR Blogs. The first feature you may or may not notice right away depending on who's blog you visit. In keeping with the ANR Strategic Vision we have added a brand new style for the ANR Blogs. Part of this addition is giving you blog owners the option of choosing what style you want to use. If you use the new style you can upload your own custom header. This was added due to popular request and also due to the fact that not everyone can use the UC logo. Some......
]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:04:10 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1959&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed bjnoel@ucdavis.edu(Bryon J. Noel) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1959 Can you remember back to Kindergarden when you were taught to share toys? Well, today we are having a similar lesson only this one is about sharing the web. A recent popular trend is to share news articles, web pages, blog posts, and most anything interesting you can find on the web with friends, family, or co-workers. There are a few sites that specialize in this type of sharing. A new feature we've added to the Blogs is to easily share pages with these social networking websites. Dave......
]]> Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:03:18 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1937&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed bjnoel@ucdavis.edu(Bryon J. Noel) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1937 We get a lot of questions about social media here at the Web Action Team headquarters, and not all of it comes from Bryon. The conversation usually revolves around someone in the division wondering if they should be on Facebook/Twitter/Blog/Delicious and other social networking sites. Most of the time, the answer depends on how much content the inquisitor produces and who the intended audience is. Even though we may not always encourage users to jump on every new bandwagon, we are......
]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:07:49 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1897&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed djkrause@ucdavis.edu(Dave Krause) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1897 Every day our little server here at ANR Communication Services performs hundreds of "little" tasks automatically and without complaint. These are different from the usual tasks of a web server. These tasks range from simple items like sending out e-mails to more complex tasks like gathering data and processing it for immediate publication to a website. All of which work flawlessly except on rare occasions where a little intervention is needed.Some of the data we gather every day comes from the......
]]> Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:36:51 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1762&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed bjnoel@ucdavis.edu(Bryon J. Noel) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1762 Well, it's County Fair season...and since Cooperative Extension is involved with County Fairs I figured that it would be a good idea for the Web Action Team to go out to the fairgrounds and see what the heck it is that we support!We started our trip to the fair with a quick awards ceremony.Bryon was deemed a 'Super-Hero' because of some work he did programming the ANR Portal recently.  The Super-Hero award trophy was a jumbo corn dog.  Congrats Bryon. (Bryon- if you can explain what you did to......
]]> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:18:51 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1653&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed kakrist@ucdavis.edu(Karl Krist) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1653 A few weeks ago some of you may have noticed a little addition to the Meeting Calendar in the ANR Portal. This addition is a little link in the top-left corner of the Meeting Calendar which says "Resource Calendar". Clicking on this link reveals another calendar all in pink colors. Some may be asking how do I use the Resource Calendar? What does the Resource Calendar do? Or even why is it pink?I am glad you asked! The Resource Calendar was designed as a way for anyone in ANR to see which......
]]> Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:14:35 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1581&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed bjnoel@ucdavis.edu(Bryon J. Noel) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1581 We are testing a new WYSIWYG editor on the Blogs! Please let us know how you like it compared to the old one. We hope that this one will not only be much better looking but also much easier and better to use. Go ahead and copy and paste from Word this editor should clean out all the garbage! So go ahead and try to break it, but please let us know if you do run into any issues, or even better let us know if you like it more than the previous editor....
]]> Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:05:17 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1065&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed bjnoel@ucdavis.edu(Bryon J. Noel) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1065 We just added the ability to track your Site Builder site with Google Analytics. To enable Google Analytics, you'll first need an account, which you can get here. You will receive a code, as seen in the image. Go to Site Builder and click "Edit Site Information" under the Administration section. You will see the field available to place your newly minted code. Save the information and republish your site when prompted. That's it! A couple of warnings about Google Analytics.......
]]> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:48:24 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1478&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed djkrause@ucdavis.edu(Dave Krause) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1478 Earlier this week, the Web Action Team received honorable mention from the prestigious Larry L. Sautter Award Program, which highlights innovations and achievements in UC information technology. To celebrate, we may give ourselves an extra 21 days off next fiscal year! In other news, we've made one upgrade to a system that warrants some announcement and explanation. We have a universal file handler that we use in many places like Collaborative Tools, Site Builder's Calendar, the Master......
]]> Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:16:01 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1411&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed djkrause@ucdavis.edu(Dave Krause) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1411 In recent weeks there has been some updates to the Blog system that should be noted. While these are minor, they can be very helpful and help make more content available to those of you who frequently post on the ANR Blogs. First, change goes out to those wo make comments on posts. Now if you leave a comment and someone else comments on the same post, you should recieve an e-mail letting you know that someone else has commented on the post. We added this because many times people will reply to......
]]> Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:43:56 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1143&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed bjnoel@ucdavis.edu(Bryon J. Noel) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1143 Tennis isn't the only thing that the Web Action Team is awesome at doing. Due to overwhelming demand, we have formed a band, a RockBand™. Here's the line up from this session (which moved me to tears): Bryon Noel on drums, Blaine Sullivan on guitar, Karl Krist on vocals and Jim Coats on Co-op canvas bag holding. If you think you've got the chops to rock as hard as us, drop in at lunch sometime. Warning: all newcomers must sing first. We're lacking a bit in quality singing. Sorry......
]]> Thu, 28 May 2009 12:29:40 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1333&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed djkrause@ucdavis.edu(Dave Krause) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1333 If you read my last post, you probably know that the Web Action Team has a penchant for gooey piles of cheese and beef. Well folks- that's all changed. We're on the path to righteousness now, and we've changed our ways. We've seen the light, and now we know that having our cholesterol score match our SAT scores is NOT a good thing. So we're playing tennis. The large fellow on the right is the current cholesterol leader Yep- we've decided to hit the courts. And we want you to join......
]]> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:11:11 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1286&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed kakrist@ucdavis.edu(Karl Krist) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1286 Dave Krause's birthday is April 27th, I think he turned 32 this year. In the Web Action Team, we make an attempt to do something for everyone's birthday- usually we go together to get a lunch. Nothing fancy, but usually entertaining and relaxing. So on Dave's birthday we ended up going to In-N-Out Burger. We ended up at In-n-Out because last week I told Bryon that I would gladly buy his lunch anytime (every day in fact)- if it consisted of a 3x3 burger, fries and a shake at In-n-Out. No,......
]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:42:58 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1220&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed kakrist@ucdavis.edu(Karl Krist) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1220 While the title is seemingly normal and boring, the reality is this update may change your life as we know it today. Or not... That depends on how important the ANR Blogs are to your sitebuilder site. Previously, anyone with a sitebuilder site could integrate ANR Blog posts into the right column of the home page. Now, this integration includes a choice to pick the center column as well. Part of the change also includes an RSS Feed link at the bottom of the Blog posting section. The RSS Feed......
]]> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:16:54 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=874&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed bjnoel@ucdavis.edu(Bryon J. Noel) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=874 Two new Portal-related items were released this morning to deafening applause. First, we now have a "Portal Options" page allowing you to make some modifications to what you see on your Portal. Second, there is a new ANR Quick Access menu! The Portal Options page controls the following four options right now: Module Activation - You can now remove modules from your portal. Click on a module you want removed, and it will disappear from your Portal after you reload the page! Of......
]]> Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:59:21 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=869&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed djkrause@ucdavis.edu(Dave Krause) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=869 A few minor improvements have been made to the Blogs RSS feed and Podcast feed. The changes relate to keeping up with RSS technology and providing a way to tracking RSS feed usage. You may never see any of these changes. However if you like statistics, then you will probably be looking for your blogs RSS feed usage. Let's take a closer look at how to see your RSS feed's usage. First, your Blog must be gathering statistics using Google Analytics. To find out more about that read my previous......
]]> Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:09:50 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=845&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed bjnoel@ucdavis.edu(Bryon J. Noel) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=845 The magic word of the day is "Statistics", more specifically Blog Statistics. Yes you heard me right. Blog Statistics! Now your asking me what is this picture of Google Analytics for? I'm glad you asked! Typically we have a program called Smarter Stats for statistics. Unfortunately, for this program will not work properly for the ANR Blogs. So we decided that it would be better to use Google Analytics for gathering stats. Google Analytics is a free, easy, and very powerful website......
]]> Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:32:56 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=603&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed bjnoel@ucdavis.edu(Bryon J. Noel) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=603 Today we released the latest version of Collaborative Tools, dubbed three point oh! Collaborative Tools is quickly becoming a vital aspect of communication within ANR. With recent cutbacks in travel, meeting online is going to be the Modus operandi rather than the techie alternative. Some of the new features include: Improved file management Bulk upload of documents Ability to break out discussions into categories Easy roster creation and management Full-text......
]]> Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:57:07 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=750&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed djkrause@ucdavis.edu(Dave Krause) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=750 The Blogs are under new administration! This sounds as if a big leadership change has occurred, or a new President of the Blogs was voted into office. Yet the administration has changed (if there was such thing). Just not in the way some may think. I am still the programmer / developer, the Master Administrator, the President, or Lord of the Blogs (if I can use such terms...). So nothing has changed there. But the change is to the Administration area of the ANR Blogs. Hopefully this change......
]]> Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:29:02 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=553&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed bjnoel@ucdavis.edu(Bryon J. Noel) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=553 Debugging a website can be a difficult thing, especially if it is complicated in layout and function. Fortunately, there are tools that help greatly with this. Firefox is an excellent web browser, included in it are the options for "Add-ons". These add-ons are written by other users to be able to do things that the web browser does not do by itself. Today I will show off a web development Add-on called "Firebug". Firebug is designed to help web developers and designers......
]]> Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:29:49 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=545&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed bjnoel@ucdavis.edu(Bryon J. Noel) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=545 I would like to announce a New Feature! Not a new feature some of us grew used to going to the drive-in or movie theater to see the latest and greatest horror or sci-fi movie. No this new feature (we hope) will blow your socks off and is what everyone has been waiting for. At least all those with Sitebuilder sites! Oooh, the first clue! Now that your fingers are all tingling with the excitement of anticipation. I would like to take a moment to say this would not be possible without Dave and......
]]> Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:37:54 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=394&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed bjnoel@ucdavis.edu(Bryon J. Noel) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=394 Well, yesterday we ran some security scans...with varied results. One result was that we found some more vulnerabilities- the new scanner is thorough! But unfortunately, we also sent out some email from the Portal, due to the scanner being pretty darn aggressive. My goal for next week is to run the scan against a few 'private' sites: http://nursing-home.info and http://simplestuff.info/mpg . The goal is to run stress tests, and try to crash the sites. I would like to compare the ANR...... Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:38:38 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=503&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed kakrist@ucdavis.edu(Karl Krist) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=503 Well folks it's 4:00pm on a Friday afternoon and the office is eerily silent. Come to find out there is only three of us left from Communications Services in the Office. Dave is at some trainings, Karl is out on vacation, Alex is being artistic somewhere, and the 3 of us from the IT group are slaving away at our jobs. Or are we??? We could be playing games or goofing around. But why would we stay here and do that? This is ludicrous to think about. As for me I've been working away at a new grant......
]]> Fri, 23 May 2008 16:32:08 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=432&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed bjnoel@ucdavis.edu(Bryon J. Noel) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=432 Tomorrow, the ANR Web Action Team will attend a unit retreat for staff of Communication Services. The theme of the retreat is "green." Not green as in great big piles of money. Green as in taking care of our environment. We decided to conduct some case studies on how converting to web-based systems impacts the environment. Bryon and Karl came up with solid data for their studies. I pulled some numbers out of a bag for mine. We then created a flyer with our case studies. Realizing......
]]> Thu, 08 May 2008 16:52:10 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=396&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed djkrause@ucdavis.edu(Dave Krause) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=396 It seems the ANR Blogs are making a big splash. With much interest in blogging, I finally had some time to make some finishing touches (for now) on the Blog system which some have been asking about. I've pulled out all the stops and put into the system a nice Archive list and the ability to add tags to posts. Right away I discovered that the "Post Archive" is great for seeing how active a blog may be. For some it is painful to see last updated over a year ago! Ouch! For others it is......
]]> Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:17:18 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=374&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed bjnoel@ucdavis.edu(Bryon J. Noel) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=374 Every year (well, most years) Communication Services has a 'unit retreat'. This is a day when we all get together, have a nice lunch, and talk about what we did in the past year, as well as what we will do in the future. This year we have been tasked with ways to make our different sections 'green'. So the Web Action Team had a quick brainstorming session, and this is what we have come up with: First, some of Bryon's ideas. I had to take out a lot of his ideas, because they had to do with......
]]> Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:34:50 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=344&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed kakrist@ucdavis.edu(Karl Krist) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=344 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......
]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:34:09 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=336&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed djkrause@ucdavis.edu(Dave Krause) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=336 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......
]]> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:52:27 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=295&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed djkrause@ucdavis.edu(Dave Krause) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=295 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......
]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:52:57 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=290&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed bjnoel@ucdavis.edu(Bryon J. Noel) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=290 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......
]]> Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:03:49 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=216&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed bjnoel@ucdavis.edu(Bryon J. Noel) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=216 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......
]]> Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:47:18 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=217&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed djkrause@ucdavis.edu(Dave Krause) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=217 I too am in Alex's class.... Yesterday we had a training where Dave and I had a contest to see who would have the better presentation. During the presentations we asked the audience to give us a score. "Plus one!" "Minus two!" In the end, Dave was victorious, with a final score of NEGATIVE .5 points. Sad that the 'winner' ended up with a negative score overall. My biggest downfall was mentioning that I would like to see a new style on the Portal that utilizes Kittens.......
]]> Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:33:54 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=213&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed kakrist@ucdavis.edu(Karl Krist) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=213 Right now, I'm sitting in our effective use of web tools workshop, and Alex Azam is dazzling the audience with Site Builder's design tools.There is a giant bowl of candy on the table in front of me. Pam Geisel brought it in. A very nice gesture, I think. One of the delicious candies included has a sour apple flavor. This flavor has permeated the rest of the candies, giving the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups a lovely sourness and the Kit-Kats a memorable funk. Not so much a taint as a bonus, in my......
]]> Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:23:45 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=201&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed djkrause@ucdavis.edu(Dave Krause) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=201 The Web Action Team is going to leave the Action Cave next week and actually get out to talk to people! We are conducting a training for the North Coast and Mountain Region on 'Advanced SiteBulder-ing'. We want to show people how to take their site beyond where most County sites are sitting now. This is not a standard SiteBuilder training, this is a full-featured 'SiteBuilder All-Stars' extravaganza! Day 1 A.M. - Dave is on the mike with a SiteBuilder training. Everyone in the audience......
]]> Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:19:59 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=208&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed kakrist@ucdavis.edu(Karl Krist) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=208 There are two significant changes to Site Builder that may delight, puzzle or frustrate you, depending on whether or not they break something on your site. I kid, I kid. They probably won't break anything. One of the changes was extremely simple, in concept. Instead of storing your files inside of your site's folder, we used to store them in a separate location. Disk space and file flexibility were the driving factors in making this decision, and file statistics weren't on anyone's radar......
]]> Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:53:47 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=197&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed djkrause@ucdavis.edu(Dave Krause) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=197 The other day Dave walked into my office to show me how if someone used a "%" sign in the blogs the text after the percent sign was mangled and not right. This weird anomaly puzzled me as everything else came out correctly. After looking into this a little while I found one of our security filters was mangling the text and needed to be fixed. You may be asking yourself, "A security filter on a blog why is that needed?" Programmers can be mischievous and enjoy a good......
]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:58:35 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=194&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed bjnoel@ucdavis.edu(Bryon J. Noel) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=194 Now that the Simple Grant System (SGS) is complete, I'm back on task with the Grant Tracking System (GTS). The GTS is to the SGS as Physics is to Psychics. Simplicity and transparency are replaced with detailed questions about every aspect of the grant proposal. This data is then run through a gauntlet of reviewers from various levels within the administrative structure. The proposal can be promoted or returned at each level, making the entire tracking process extremely complex.......
]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:16:16 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=193&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed djkrause@ucdavis.edu(Dave Krause) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=193 Yesterday, Karl and I finished up the Simple Grant System and moved it to our real Web server. This qualifies as a bona fide launch. Of course, the system is totally unknown to 99.9 percent of the division (yes, dear readers, you make up the meager .1 percent of the division that is "in the know"). One of the people who's needs we considered while designing the system was contacted and is excited to use it... next year. Oh well, that'll give us time to put bugs in that we can then......
]]> Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:30:20 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=191&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed djkrause@ucdavis.edu(Dave Krause) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=191 It's Friday, our deadline for completing the beta version of the new ANR Simple Grant System. Of course, our beta versions just happen to also be final versions, so I expect we'll roll this out to the masses next week. We'll be moving the site to production today, meaning it'll be off our test server and onto the live, everyone uses it, server. What chaos will come of such a transition? I eagerly wait to see. Karl and I will be congratulating ourselves tonight with a round of chest......
]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:46:37 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=189&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed djkrause@ucdavis.edu(Dave Krause) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=189 The Web Action Team is workin on something new this week- we are building a 'Simple Grant System.' The idea is to allow different units in the division to run a SIMPLE grant submission/review process that is better than what is possible with the surveys. Initially we are targeting RREA and REC RACs. Also- we're trying a new buddy system with this project. Dave and Karl are both working on this from different starting points. We hope to meet in the middle by Friday. (Possible logos......
]]> Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:13:52 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=183&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed kakrist@ucdavis.edu(Karl Krist) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=183