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Behind the Code

Writing about the way things I program came to be, often a rather indirect route

Share Images By Email to SPLOT Collector

March 2, 2015March 5, 2015 cogdog

The SPLOT Image Collector has found resonance as a useful tool to build shared image collections. I’ve modified the admin options so a site owner can decided which of the fields they want on the form (and even designate them […]

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Making of The You Show Web Site

February 25, 2015March 5, 2015 cogdog

At a talk tonight on TRU campus I decided to use my moleskin for notes and was delighted to find my early ideas for the You Show web site; the notes are dated December 8, 2014. According to the Network […]

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A Two Dog Theme Demo

February 25, 2015March 5, 2015 cogdog

Most of the time it’s intentional, but I do not always plan to use a dog metaphor. It just happens. In setting up the trubox multisite as a place for You Show participants to start their blogs, I came up […]

 Behind the Code, Explaining, Favorite Stuff, Portfolio Thinking, Syndicate This, Tips and Howtos, Wordpress  wordpress  1 Comment

On Multisiting

February 23, 2015March 5, 2015 cogdog

These are some notes from my experience here at TRU running two different WordPress sites that are enabled as multisite, or more properly, networks of sites. Among the reasons for doing this include wanting to have a platform to offer […]

 Behind the Code, Syndicate This, Tips and Howtos, Wordpress  multisite, trubox, wordpress  1 Comment

You Show Daily, The Grid View

February 19, 2015March 5, 2015 cogdog

Just noting some small details to add to the You Show Daily site, where we are trying a series of daily creative challenges related to the purposes of the open seminar. Now a nice grid showing all of the responses […]

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Inside the RSS Magic Box

February 11, 2015March 5, 2015 cogdog

Wow, I thought I had written this up somewhere, but because Ken asked, and he is doing cool stuff with his Connected Course… Can anyone share the code for the Magic Box #CCourses http://t.co/lv3QFzS45M @cogdog @mburtis @timmmmyboy ? — Ken […]

 Behind the Code, Explaining, Tips and Howtos, Wordpress, You Show  feedwordpress, syndication  4 Comments

Highs and Lows of Technical Problem Solving

January 31, 2015March 5, 2015 cogdog

There is little like the satisfaction, no that is to tame a word, the exhilaration of solving a problem that you had never addressed before, or thought you could not figure out. That is no great revelation. In the realm […]

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Randomizing the SPLOT

January 30, 2015March 5, 2015 cogdog

The theme I set up for the SPLOT site is a landing page style one called Onsie (free one page responsive theme from Graph Paper Press). There is not much to it, a large welcome page, an image gallery for […]

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Reversing Course Again, Doing it Dudley Right

January 25, 2015March 5, 2015 cogdog

In a post on my approach to building The Daily site am not thinking I was wrong about being wrong… does that make me right? And in a process of working on projects, does, does being right even matter? To […]

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And Thus, Dog Food Shall Be Eaten

January 23, 2015March 5, 2015 cogdog

Sure it’s clichĂ©. And I have a dog house full of metaphors. But it seems a tad hypocritical to be asking participants in the You Show to be creating portfolios and sites and not be doing it myself. It’s one […]

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I’m Doing it Wrong: The Daily ____

January 19, 2015February 25, 2015 cogdog

It’s been one of my long term dream plans to make a generalizable WordPress theme approach to the ds106 Daily Create so people (me included) could create news site to run daily challenges. One of the things I wanted to […]

 Behind the Code, SPLOT, The Daily Blank  dailyblank, splot  13 Comments

Randomly() Yours

December 20, 2014March 5, 2015 cogdog

Do you really know where your next blog post will come from? Mine kind of pop up like… driving down the road with a destination in mind, and an curious road sign appears. How can you not take that turn? […]

 Behind the Code, Web Design  random  2 Comments

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Favorite Stuff

The You Show Videos

Probably the most rewarding thing Brian and I did on the You Show was our series of introductory videos. The ironic thing is that they are not even essential to the “content.” I’ve been thinking about that nearly all of […]

We’re In the First Issue of TRU Learning

The You Show is featured in TRU Learning, the newsletter of the Centre for Student Engagement and Learning Innovation. It’s available as a downloadable PDF An intrepid cohort of the TRU community is in the midst of… something. It is […]

A Two Dog Theme Demo

Most of the time it’s intentional, but I do not always plan to use a dog metaphor. It just happens. In setting up the trubox multisite as a place for You Show participants to start their blogs, I came up […]

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