Ingeniux Upgraded to Version 6 SR6

by Michael Santoroski on March 3, 2010

Today I attended a webinar held by the Ingeniux Corporation, where the presented the latest version of their software dubbed “SR6.” The highlights of the new feature list are 1) full Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8 compatibility and 2) dramatically increased page rendering times. Here are the notes from them:

Ingeniux CMS 6.0 SR6 Highlights:

  • Windows Server 2008 and Server 2008 R2 support for CMS Design-Time and Run-Time Server applications
  • Windows 7 support for both the Admin client and Universal client
  • 64-bit operating system support for both the CMS Design-Time and Run-Time server applications as well as the Admin and Universal clients
  • Redesigned Ingeniux Run-Time Server offers dramatically faster page delivery for large sites with improved error handling
  • TinyMCE WYSIWYG Editor upgrade improves support for cross browser Flash as well as many usability enhancements
  • Improvements to cookie handling to improve Google Analytics compatibility
  • More than 40 other updates

– From the Ingeniux.com website.

I also picked up one tip at the Webinar, when using the Asset browser, select View then Details. This will stop Ingeniux from trying to show thumbnails of all the images, and will remember this setting for next time. It makes Assets usable!

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Form Validation with jQuery

by Caleb Pierce on March 1, 2010

Because of jQuery’s powerful selector, it’s very easy to write form validation scripts for many different scenarios. We’ll begin by defining a class to add to form elements that can’t be left blank (including check boxes and radio buttons). I’ll use the class “notBlank” in this example. Additionally, we can define other classes such as “email” or “url” to validate for specific patterns of text, but we won’t cover that in this example.

(Optional): Insert asterisks before each required field. Notice that the span wrapping the asterisk has a class of “required”, allowing you to style it accordingly in your CSS.

$(".notBlank").before('<span class="required">*</span> ');

Next, we write the code to check the fields themselves:

$(".check").submit(function(){

$("form").submit(function(){
var thisForm = $(this); //preserve the form scope
var errors = 0; //error tracking. If it goes about 0, we know to abort form submission
var submitForm = false;

$(".notBlank",this).each(function(){
   var thisInput = $(this); //preserve the scope for inner DOM searching
   if ($(thisInput).is(":radio")){ //handle the radio buttons
      var name = $(thisInput).attr("name");
      if ($(thisForm).find(":radio[name='"+ name + "']").add(thisInput).filter(":checked").length == 0){
         errors++;
      } //if
   }
   else if ($(thisInput).is(":checkbox")){ //handle the checkboxes
      var name = $(thisInput).attr("name");
      if ($(thisForm).find(":checkbox[name='"+ name + "']").add(thisInput).filter(":checked").length == 0){
         errors++;
      }
   }
   else { //note: for a select field, the value attribute is what's checked
      if($.trim($(thisInput).val()) == '') errors++;
   }
});

if (errors > 0) {
   alert('Please check the form for empty required fields');
} //if
else submitForm = true;

return submitForm;
});

In summary, this code checks the input fields with a class “notBlank” and throws an alert and aborts form submission if a required field was left blank.

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jQuery and Mobile Web Development

February 25, 2010

We use jQuery in most of our web applications for form validation, showing/hiding content, and the like. With the release of our new mobile site, we were faced with a set of challenges specific to mobile applications, and we used jQuery to address a number of them.
Heavy Content
When developing for the the limited bandwidth mobile devices [...]

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Sharepoint 2010 Sneakpeek

February 23, 2010

Mark Dunkel from Microsoft came to Washington & Lee University to give some of the CICV (Council of Independent Colleges in Virginia) schools a demo of Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 from a Higher Ed perspective.
The timeline for release is June of 2010 for general availability. SP 2010 will focus much more on hosted solutions, and [...]

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New Maroons Online Mockup

February 18, 2010

We are hard at work coming up with great new ideas for Maroons Online. Our concept is to make user profiles the centerpiece, and allow users to search and view other Alumni’s profiles. We are also planning to use Facebook Connect for login, so users can post information from Maroons Online back to Facebook.

Connections
We would [...]

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New Mobile Site Launched!

February 17, 2010

We officially launched the new mobile website that is optimized for webkit based mobile devices like the iPhone/iPod Touch, Android and Palm Pre/Pixi.
Access the site by going to:  i.roanoke.edu
New City from Blacksburg, Virginia designed the site and my team of crack student programmers hooked up the backend with some coldfusion and javascript code. Also, we [...]

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Social Media on a College or University Home Page?

February 16, 2010

I have been thinking about when it will be time to put social media on the home page for Roanoke College. This is a big change for me, since for a long time it was “if,” now it is “when.” I have followed University of Richmond’s and Washington & Lee’s use of Twitter and Facebook [...]

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2010 Mobile Strategy

February 15, 2010

2010 is going to be a big year for the Roanoke College mobile strategy. Right now we have four initiatives for the year.
#1 – New iPhone/Android Home Page
Now in “preview” at i.roanoke.edu, our new home page was designed by New City in Blacksburg, Va, who also designed our home page and sports page. We plan [...]

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Active Campus Portal – Screenshots

October 30, 2009

Here is a screenshot of the upcoming replacement for MyRC with the Roanoke College branding in place. The new portal will be released on January 5, 20105.

Features include:

Integrated view of Outlook calendar and class schedule
Blackboard
Webadvisor
My ToDo list
Weather
Password Change
Daily Announcements
Team Sites
College News, Sports News & Dining Menu
Personal & College bookmarks

Much information is coming soon!

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Web Announcer gets a new name and a new look: Introducing the Daily e-mail

August 19, 2009

We have just launched a new look for Web Announcer, which is now being called the “Daily e-mail.” This look is a continuation of the redesign of enews and now there is now a consistent look between the two. It contains all of the same information, just with a different layout. We will also have [...]

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