Despite whatever I might have said in previous blog posts, coding was quite a challenge for me and not something I could see myself devoting sustained attention to, so I was pleased to find some inkling of intuition about graphic design. My days of designing my high school newspaper on antiquated Adobe software suddenly became…. More.
Teasing the Blogosphere
Describing visual work in a blog without being able to reveal the images is more than challenging: it’s boring. After we discussed this issue in our most recent Praxis meeting, the group suggested I post a Prism striptease. Linked below is a teasingly cropped and subtly altered image of the logo we decided on last…. More.
seeking a Senior Research Specialist for SCI
I’m pleased to share a formal job posting for an 18-month research-and-writing position with the Scholarly Communication Institute. The posting is limited to current employees of the Unversity of Virginia for four business days, after which it will open to all qualified candidates. It’s a short-term position, but an excellent opportunity to work with SCI…. More.
Building and Texts
Alex and I finally have something to show for all our work! We built the document model for Prism that allows us to add new texts to the database! It even passes the tests we built! We’re putting the finishing touches on it now, but we should easily make our deadline of this afternoon, so…. More.
Why I love project management
Last week Brooke and I celebrated our new roles as co-project managers by running our very first Praxis meeting. We had a fairly ambitious agenda, and I must admit that I was a little bit concerned about whether our enthusiastic (debate-loving) group would be able to get through everything we wanted to do, but thanks…. More.
Praxis, MLA 2012 and timeliness
I’m finally settling back into my C’ville routine. My last stop this winter break was the MLA convention in Seattle. Like many of my colleagues, I also felt that “the MLA’s heart (like a post-holiday Grinch) grew at least three sizes over the four days of the 2012 conference.” While last year echoed a prominent…. More.
Project Management and Graduate Training
As if on cue, right after I posted last week to call for clear, concrete goals for Prism this semester, Bethany began last week’s meeting by asking for a Project Manager. Sarah Storti and I quickly volunteered for the job, probably because we share a love of deadlines, self-imposed or otherwise, and work at similar…. More.
Mapping the Catalogue of Ships
I’m very pleased to share a guest post by UVa Classics professor Jenny Strauss Clay, describing a new project we’ve undertaken at the Scholars’ Lab. We’re excited not only at the opportunity to use GIS techniques to test Professor Clay’s theories about the relation of ancient geography to mnemonic devices and poetic form, but also…. More.
Looking forward to Prism
With the end of the semester and year, and all of the accompanying hullabaloo (to use a polite term for it), I wasn’t able to write my final blog post of the semester, which was going to be a retrospective of my Praxis experience so far. But now it’s the new year and the new…. More.
Generating HTML fixtures using Zend, Omeka, PHPUnit, and Jasmine
One of the reasons that testing JavaScript can be so pesky (and perhaps one of the reasons that so little JavaScript is tested…) is the fact that you have to maintain a library of HTML “fixtures” for the tests to run on. What’s a fixture? Basically, just a little chunk of markup that provides a…. More.