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Moving on

18-Mar-10

This week I resigned my position as instructional technologist at Queens College. May 27 will be my last day. My main reason for leaving is my dissertation, or rather my lack of dissertation. I’ve been done with graduate classes for longer than I care to admit, with nothing between me and the degree but the [...]

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New BuddyPress plugin: Invite Anyone

18-Dec-09

Some members of the still-young CUNY Academic Commons, eager to start groups in support of various projects, have been getting hung up on the process of putting a group together: first, each person has to sign up for the Commons; second, each person has to become friends with the group admin; third, each person has [...]

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Upgrading from BuddyPress 1.0 to 1.1

06-Dec-09

The upgrade from BuddyPress 1.0.x to BuddyPress 1.1 on the CUNY Academic Commons posed a number of challenges. Between the big changes to theme structure, the one-click installation of bbPress forums, and ongoing plugin compatibility issues, a lot of planning and testing was required. This week, I and the rest of the CAC development team [...]

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Sitewide Tag Suggestion, Part II, Sort of

15-Sep-09

If you are interested in the Sitewide Tag Suggestion plugin that I blogged about a few weeks ago, you might like to know that I have finally found some time to write up some proper instructions and implement the changes on the CUNY Academic Commons. If you’re interested, you can download the bugger from the [...]

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New version of BuddyPressActivity for MediaWiki

24-Aug-09

Ding ding ding. Soup’s on. And by soup I mean version 0.2 of BuddyPressActivity, a MediaWiki extension I wrote. Read more about it, and get the code, over at the CUNY Academic Commons dev blog.

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Sitewide Tag Suggestion in Wordpress MU 2.8+

21-Aug-09

A recent project of mine has been to improve the “Choose from the most popular tags” button that’s built into the Wordpress edit post screen. The default behavior is to find the most frequently used tags from the current blog. My goal is to add a link that lets you select from frequently used tags [...]

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Empowering through openness – my application for the OpenEd 2009 travel scholarship

30-Jun-09

This blog post is my application for one of the travel scholarships to OpenEd 2009. Here’s how the prompt goes: What you would “bring” to the conference? What can you contribute, be it a willingness to volunteer to moderate a session, some special expertise or project, an already accepted proposal… What you see as the [...]

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Custom Profile Filters for BuddyPress

16-May-09

I just posted at the CUNY Academic Commons Development Blog about a plugin that I wrote for BuddyPress. Check it out if you are interested: http://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2009/05/16/new-plugin-custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress/

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