Technology Services

Category: Web Services

  • Daylight Savings Time

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    jlencion

    Since the time change for the end of daylight savings last month, our iCalendar files on the college calendar have been using the wrong time. This was caused by our usage of a constant timezone modifier for adding to event start times and end times. As a result, whenever someone had added an event to…

  • Gustavus featured weblogs

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    jlencion

    In an effort to consolidate our various blogs and blogging systems that we have tried out over the last couple of years, we have created a WordPress blog to manage all of the Gustavus featured weblogs. We have imported all of our past blogs into the WordPress system and are currently looking into some more…

  • Athletic Facilities Site

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    rrud

    We recently put live a new athletic facilities website. We’ve created new information pages with pictures and relevant links for each indoor and outdoor facility associated with Gustavus. Thanks go to Joe for starting the project and designing the layout and to Tim Kennedy for providing awesome content and pictures.

  • Wahlstrom Hall demolition webcam

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    jlencion

    Wahlstrom Hall is scheduled to be demolished soon, so it is time for us all to say our goodbyes. If you are having a hard time letting go, or need to check in from another part of the country, we set up a webcam of Wahlstrom Hall. We are planning on running it over the…

  • A new season begins…

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    jlencion

    Gustavus is currently trying to raise a bunch of money for a well-needed new football stadium. With the release of a print brochure, the Marketing and PR office decided they wanted to do a web component. Right now we on have basically what is available in the print brochure, but there are some really cool…

  • Updated Regular Expression for E-Mail

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    rrud

    We discovered a small bug in our old regular expression for checking valid e-mail addresses. When a user tried to use an address with capital letters on a form, it failed to match the regular expression. We updated the regular expression to account for capital letters anywhere in the e-mail address. ^[_a-zA-Z0-9-]+(.[_a-zA-Z0-9-]+)*@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+(.[a-zA-Z0-9-]+)*.(([a-zA-Z]{2,3})|([Aa][Ee][Rr][Oo]|[Aa][Rr][Pp][Aa]|[Cc][Oo][Oo][Pp]|[Ii][Nn][Ff][Oo]|[Mm][Uu][Ss][Ee][Uu][Mm]|[Nn][Aa][Mm][Ee]))$ This new expression…

  • Gustavus Honor Band Registration Site

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    rrud

    We recently finished up work on a new registration page for Gustavus Honor Band 2005. This site allows high school band directors to nominate their especially talented music students for an intensive two-day musical experience at Gustavus. Thanks go to Sharon Stevenson for designing the layout of the site and Douglas Nimmo for providing content…

  • Paul Granlund at Last

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    jlencion

    With the help of Jeremy Braband, a former Web Services member who now works for Atomic Playpen, Justin Haaheim, one of our former student workers, and Ryan Rud, our current office pal, we recently put our new Paul Granlund website live. This new site offers biographical information about Granlund as well as information and photographs…

  • News 2.1.1

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    jlencion

    News 2.1.1 is now live. We identified and fixed a small CSS bug from News 2.1.0 that showed up under IE on my Windows XP machine. The problem was that the links in the menubar had not been given a specific width. The idea behind this technique was that they would automatically stretch to the…

  • News 2.1.0

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    jlencion

    I just finished the news 2.1.0 upgrade and put it live. This is the latest upgrade since I finished 2.0.1 in April. For the most part, visitors to sites that use the news software will see no change as nearly all of the updates deal with the administrative side. The biggest improvements affect the new…