Over the past few weeks, I started working on a jQuery Mobile based application that would tie together some of my work with campus maps and campus events. My use case was getting a user information about departments, buildings, campus and local events. I've gotten to an alpha version that is deployed to my iPhone and iPad.
I wanted to spend some time learning the following technologies:
I was thinking about what I could might be able to offer as a talk at the upcoming BADCamp. It got me thinking about my current Drupal portfolio which currently includes:
I've been working with Fusion Charts and Drupal with varying levels of success on our campus sustainability site. Here's what we we're doing to make things. work.
Update - 06/09/2011 Today I made a change the events manager system that will now correctly capture and display First, Last, Unit, Phone, Affiliation information. If you have events that do not have complete information, you can click the Edit button in the Signup List to add information about individual signups.
I've been working with a small team to adapt our new campus template for use in Drupal. While the general direction of campus web presence is to move existing sites towards the Web Content Management System (WCMS), there are a number of use cases where current Drupal sites can't be migrated. These include sites with dynamic dependencies and web applications.
This error was resolved by going in and resetting the filter for each node. Not sure why it didn't come across in the node export:import properly. Probably a mistake on my part.
Here's what I'm testing on breadcrumbs for use with the campus template.
I've been working with the custom_breadcrumb and menu_breadcrumb modules. I've also done some Views hacking to get a dynamic breadcrumb generated.
On the maps site, I've been using a view and some URL overriding to provide a breadcrumb for pages that land on node/nid/map_detail. These are pages that you'd get to by selecting a building or department. I'll probably scrap this at some point and just land on the nodes.
http://www.linnovate.net/blog/drupal-openlayers-display-your-content-map
http://drupal.org/project/openlayers http://drupal.org/node/627816 (getting started)
http://drupal.org/node/911028 (using mapbox)
http://drupal.org/node/904898 (zoom to place with GeoTaxonomy)
Design Questions for Discussion
Click the Home link to demo.
We did a soft launch of the new map site today. http://interactivemap.ucsc.edu We timed it to help visiting families and the spring rush. I've written some other articles about this project if you'd like to get more info.