Google recently announced that it is bringing the V8 JavaScript runtime to the Google Apps Script environment, and the community, myself included, reacted with much enthusiasm. This is amazing! https://t.co/Qmbb0MIugx — Jeff Everhart (@J_Everhart383) February 6, 2020 There are a lot of things to be excited about with this new change, but I also realized […]
Read MoreWe’ve been working on a project with some of the folks from the medical campus since I’ve been at VCU. They are developing a large OER site for Histology, which is the study of cells, but we’re approaching a point where this single site has over 1000 pages in a nested menu structure. Since the […]
Read MoreContinuing my exploration of data visualization tools, I circled back to where it all started for me: D3. For those of you involved in developing data-driven apps for the web, you most likely have a love/hate relationship with D3. You look at all of the cool examples and think, “Wow! That looks great,” but then […]
Read MoreAfter a decent amount of foot shuffling, I finally decided to step up and dig into the Gutenberg editor that will ship with WordPress 5.0, whenever that is ready. There has been a lot of chatter in the WP ecosystem over the last year or so about when this update will be ready, how it […]
Read MoreThis post is really just a placeholder for some new JavaScript tricks I’ve learned for WordPress over some of my latest projects. I’m sure these won’t be groundbreaking, but it’s worth it to document them here, at least for myself. Working with REST API on Multisite The first snippet deals with using the REST […]
Read MoreI finally swallowed the Webpack pill, mostly because I wanted to get the most out of single file Vue components for some new projects I’m working on, and Webpack is along for the ride. Overall, it’s been a semi-frustrating but also instructive experience. Before this I never used ESLint or any other type of linting, […]
Read MoreOne of the current projects I’m working on involves building out some analytical tools that sit on top of an application that lets students track attendance at extra curricular events for a living and learning program for the daVinci Center. For most of the visualizations, I used amCharts to build out some nice looking and functional […]
Read MoreOver the last several weeks, I’ve been working on several prototypes to help facilitate different types of annotations. Most educators are already pretty familiar with the typical textual annotation, but as new media becomes more important, we ought to have tools that facilitate annotation on other types of media as well. What is an audiographic? […]
Read MoreGoogle Sheets tends to be my go to whenever I need to build a really lightweight application that has a limited life span. Usually, these things typically involve a short turnaround or some type of very well-defined set of requirements. After Tom did some work demonstrating the utility of silent Google Forms submissions using JS […]
Read MoreI’m not sure the power of visualizing data can be understated in the modern world. After all, we have more data than we’ve every had before, and we at least seem to understand the world we live in less and less. For example, this image below displays population density in Virginia census tracts, but what […]
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