University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications

It’s infrastructure week here with lots of behind-the-scenes coding going on with several of the sites. One such task was changing the RSS code library, which drives the news items on the home page, from Magpie RSS to SimplePie. Among the reasons for this is that SimplePie provides Plug-ins for Textpattern and WordPress, both of [...]

The ever-excellent web development online magazine A List Apart has published a great article explaining the variety of ways in which one may embed Flash in Web pages. Around here, we have (in the past, at least) mostly used the object/embed method (because that’s what Dreamweaver used to output from the “Insert Flash” command).  For [...]

I have a few pages on the Web site, such as the Administrative Council minutes, that contain lists of links to PDF files. The date sorting comes by virtue of having files the files named like Minutes070122.pdf. The pages were formerly served by an ASP script that read the filenames from the directory, filtered out [...]