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Re: Every university should host an open source development project

Jeremy Felt — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 18:45:37 -0000

Completely agree, especially when it comes to public universities.

Devoting resources to the creation of open source projects, contributing to existing open source projects, and talking publicly about the work being done are all synonymous with the overall purpose of a public university.

We're in the younger stages of a project at Washington State University and will be showing the beginnings of our work within the next couple of weeks. Our first objective is to build a platform as an extension of WordPress that can solve the large scale publishing needs of a university and its various schools, departments, and people. The hope is that by open sourcing every thing that do, we can make it easier for others to follow suit *and* receive feedback and contributions from experts outside of our WSU circle.

I'm beyond excited for the support that we have in making this happen so far and I love seeing things like Dave's post out in the wild as an indicator that we're on the right path. :)

Re: Modern WordPress Workflow for Professionals: Rationale

Jeremy Felt — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 00:40:05 -0000

Totally agree with you here. It'd be great to have much more documentation available for new users.

There is some stuff in the VVV wiki (https://github.com/10up/var... that isn't always obvious to find. I do think the best documentation we have so far is found inline. All of the provisioning and configs are pretty heavily documented.

Re: Scripting News: The bigger question Path raises

Jeremy Felt — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:12:06 -0000

The 'technical' security of the data storage isn't always enough. Examples include, among others, Yahoo providing user data to China in 2003, resulting in a Chinese dissident being jailed and the subpoena of Wikileaks tweets last year by the US government.

Would Path (or another service) risk being shut down and/or jail time to protect a user's information?

Re: Holiday Spice Flax Seed Crackers | A Shanty of a Raw Gingerbread House

Jeremy Felt — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:36:44 -0000

That's one awesome picture of a gingerbread shack. :)

Re: Moroccan Cauliflower Salad

Jeremy Felt — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:04:13 -0000

So delicious on day 1, then day 2, and then especially day 3. I love how it marinates as it goes. :)

Also - fantastic post!

Re: Banana Orange Collard Green Smoothie

Jeremy Felt — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:54:18 -0000

Love! that blender picture! Perfect!

Re: Scripting News: Why I stand up for Stallman

Jeremy Felt — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:58:41 -0000

Not to detract from anybody's overall point, but the M&Ms in Van Halen's rider were used to establish that the venue had paid attention to detail. If the venue missed on the M&Ms, they may have also cut corners on the maximum weight supported by the stage or grounding the electrical wiring properly.

I think people can show up to the party hoping to 'just make good music', but a rider could grow over time to cover all the annoying things they didn't want to have to deal with.

Re: How to Make Your Celery Crisp Again

Jeremy Felt — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:10:35 -0000

I think this is one of the first tricks I learned from Michelle that has come in handy time and time again. Put any kind of green into ice cold water and it comes back to life. :)

Re: Scripting News: Tapping into the "occupy" news flow

Jeremy Felt — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 20:22:02 -0000

Thanks for the flow, Dave! Added to feedriverwire.com, fits nicely. :)

Re: Apple Spaghetti with Banana Flax Coconut Balls

Jeremy Felt — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 02:33:11 -0000

Way delicious and the honey crisp was perfect for this. So light and crunchy. We should have had apple spaghetti rather than cupcakes at the wedding. Or!!! Put a spirooli with the apples as the centerpiece for every table, and everyone could make their own. ;)

Re: Good Citizenry

Jeremy Felt — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 18:26:53 -0000

Exactly. I got a pleasant (?) surprise today in being able to see the discussion develop as a developer first, then experiencing a similar event on a completely unrelated site as a user later. I totally take the blame as a developer for trusting in the first place, but I shouldn't have to.

All I can hope is that developers do a better job of understanding processes as a user. It's too easy to get caught up in the IF/THEN parts that we program in.

And hey, thanks for taking the moment out to go more than 140 on this. :)

Re: Mr. Bitters: A Way to Use Up Your Stems

Jeremy Felt — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:09:17 -0000

Nice! I'm going to vote +1 on that idea. Though every pineapple I've seen in Portland seems twice as expensive as I remember.

Re: Scripting News: Google-Plus is going to be your bank account

Jeremy Felt — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:52:09 -0000

Believable scenario. Seems they've already started with their AdWords credit card - http://www.businessweek.com...

Re: Scripting News: A hackathon I'd like to be part of

Jeremy Felt — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:31:42 -0000

And the group narrates their work as they go. :)

Sounds good to me.

Re: Scripting News: Feedhose -- a firehose for feeds

Jeremy Felt — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 23:59:03 -0000

Have what I'm calling a Feed River Wire up and running based on your server. Fun playing around with, looking forward to additional feeds if you have them. Thanks again.

First draft here - http://mystatuscloud.com/fe...
Longer comment / blog post here - http://www.educer.org/2010/...

Re: Scripting News: Feedhose -- a firehose for feeds

Jeremy Felt — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:59:05 -0000

Cool stuff, Dave!

Playing around with the URL now, will script around with it soon.

Is there a max timeout you have set or would like respected for server sanity sake?

Re: Scripting News: Paradoxes bother me, a lot!

Jeremy Felt — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:57:17 -0000

I got North in my head, but South when I drew it out. Weird.

Re: Scripting News: Why I like comments

Jeremy Felt — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:07:34 -0000

I wonder if a comment system based on crowd sourced moderation would be plausible.

The 30k feet view--

The author has ultimate authority and can assign different levels of authority to commenters. Depending on the configuration, individual commenters may also have an impact on the authority of others. This authority allows users to (1) mark comments as relevant/irrelevant, (2) edit comments for clarity, and (3) respond directly to others comments (i.e. the "debate flag").

Optionally, this is combined with a character limit on the comment or comment limit on the post. Whichever content is edited and ranked higher will be what shows up long term. If somebody types a bunch of nonsense, but has one concise idea deemed important by the community, this is all that will show up.

Quick example-- from my comment, the community may decide that the explanation wasn't necessary or was too brief. They could then edit the content to show just:

"I wonder if a comment system based on crowd source moderation would be plausible."

Or even mark the comment as "long form requested" indicating that a separate blog post may be a better way to get the point across.

Future visitors would miss some of the extra nonsense and may feel more inclined to contribute constructively.

One could imagine many other possibilities, but comments probably shouldn't be this long to begin with. :)

Re: Scripting News: Getting started with Firebug

Jeremy Felt — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:17:20 -0000

H4 is probably the right thing to use in that context, as it is a headline. You'll just need to pick and choose when/where to use that style headline.

This was mentioned in another comment below, but you may really want to consider using one of the CSS reset tools out there. Browsers have so much default styling that can make it hard to get things how you want and to troubleshoot once the're almost there.

Things will go out of whack when you first apply the reset style, but then you'll find yourself with much more (and easier) control.

I've used Yahoo's YUI 2 before - http://developer.yahoo.com/...

Another popular one was mentioned earlier - http://meyerweb.com/eric/to...

Re: Scripting News: Need help with CSS-based outlines

Jeremy Felt — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:37:31 -0000

I'm no CSS expert, but I've had enough trouble in the past myself to take a guess. The experts can slap me if I'm wrong. :)

I think the concept of nested paragraphs is outside the scope of what a CSS "paragraph" is really meant to be. Whether it is *possible* or not, it may be a better idea to head down the road of using nested DIVs as the element of choice, if not a list element. This may make any rework easier in the future as well.

I played around with some sample code just to see if I could do it with nested Ps, but it wasn't cooperating. The moment I switched from P to DIV, the nesting magically appeared.

Hope that makes sense. ;)

Re: My instant review of the LOST finale. (Scripting News)

Jeremy Felt — Mon, 24 May 2010 21:04:53 -0000

I was amazed at how completely satisfied I was with the finale.

"make friends and be happy cause it all works out in the end." - Exactly!

Re: Coming sooon: The Bluetooth Watch. (Scripting News)

Jeremy Felt — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:09:28 -0000

And call it the Wrist River. :)

Re: Marrying RSS and Twitter. (Scripting News)

Jeremy Felt — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:33:19 -0000

Same here. I started using it a bunch once I made that change. Became my most used Twitter client for a while. :)

Re: OPML for Twitter lists (Scripting News)

Jeremy Felt — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:27:35 -0000

Nicely done! I can't wait to see how smoothly this ends up including other pieces of a distributed 140 character system... and more! Then the fun really happens. :)

Re: On pubsubhubbub (Part 2) – Get with it, PuSH, you’re supposed to be realtime.

Jeremy Felt — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:02:25 -0000

Hi Brett, thanks for stopping by.

This comment stream aside, the original post was written more as my perception than science. Rereading, it's a pretty unorganized perception. Ahh, late nights. There's more too the rambling, but if you come away with one thing from the above, it's that I don't see the FeedBurner stuff being real time as I thought it would.

I'll be grinding through the data more closely as the week goes on. The initial conclusions are based on a snapshot look at the initial 24 hours or so of use.

I can't answer to the latency yet, but I also can't imagine it being too high. Not a perfect answer, I know, but the server is on Amazon's EC2 and overall latency (network and system) seems low. Almost the only traffic coming in is from rssCloud and PubSubHubBub notifications. From watching Dave's rssCloud log (light pings), the time posted is usually less than .300 seconds.

The feeds that I've noticed the most issues with are from FeedBurner. My guess is that the delay and re-pushes are due to the ping scheduling between publisher->FeedBurner->PuSH. Once publishers start pinging directly to the hub instead of relying on a middle man, I would think that these issues clear up. See previous post directed at publishers.

The feeds that I've noticed the best response with are from Google Reader shared items. Again, perception, but things seem to run pretty smoothly here.

My generated twitter-link feeds seem to be sporadic when done in quick succession. @mmastrac pointed out after I posted last night that this could be a "race" between the feed writing and the hub reading if things are happening quickly enough. I still need to explore that.

You've given me a bunch of stuff to look at. I'll do what I can to start logging and parsing all of it and then provide the results. Hopefully I find a few problems with my code to fix along the way. :)