Tom Hapgood

The Rome Group

Here is the Art in Rome group in front of the Colosseo. Mi manca Roma tantissimo e spero di tornare qualché giorno. Sono proprio geloso!

Students Blogging in Rome

Twelve students are leaving today for Italy for about six weeks with Professor Jacqueline Golden. They’ll be blogging their experiences with photos, shots of their sketches and writings about the encounter of the cultures with which they’ll be presented. I set them up with the simple Flickr and Blogger connection, and you can watch them here.

It’s 2007 and I finally got a mobile phone

There’s a special little Nokia N75 coming my way so that I can do everything but talk on it. I want to get more sites working on mobiles and explore the world of mobile web, especially in terms of the whole “barcode” thing (semacode, Kaywa, ShotCode, Active Print). I’m very much interested in the providing of mobile content at specific locations and have a few lined up here in NW Arkansas with which to start testing. ShotCode and ActivePrint (Glass) seem to be EU-only right now, tho.

I’ve had students attempt to text my home landline to tell me they’d be late for class, so now they can actually text me or call me at any time of the day or night. Here’s my new number. Well, maybe I’ll keep it a secret…

Web 2 Final Projects

The projects are in from Bertha Gutierrez, Sean Borsodi, Ali Williams, Tony Williams, Billy Pope and Anna Vernon. View them here (bottom of page).

Coda Needs list

I’ve been trying out the new product by Panic, Coda. In my attempt to switch over to it from Dreamweaver, I’ve run up against some issues that I think need addressing, or I’d be happy to be clued-in.

When changing file type from php to html midstream, so that i didn’t have to wait to preview on a slow server, it lost track of my changes and knocked my files back about three hours

Aren’t there any keyboard shortcuts, even for the much-used br and p tags?

When I upload a file, Coda decides not to maintain the path within the folder structure. If I upload a graphic from the images directory, I have to then go into the Remote tab and manually move it from the root to the images folder.

When I go from Edit to Preview, it doesn’t show me the right file. Working on the sub-page “Editorial,” I hit Preview (or Command-3) and it shows me the home page, “index.php” one directory up. Scary.

I’m happy to be wrong on any of these, but so far the coding has been slower than using Dreamweaver.

[ update: received a response to my inquiry at Coda from Tim Coulter that they'd look into the .ste file import for setting up sites in Coda ]

Blog post [to] Twitter test

Attempting to further integrate Twitter into the mix.

Twitter update

I promised my esteemed colleagues that I would try Twitter. So far I’ve only posted a few things, but I’ve been using iChat (AIM) to send and receive messages, as well as Twitterific, which I greatly prefer now. So at this point, my Twitterings have gone through the Web site, the chat world and the Twitterific world, not to mention if any of my poor Friends are receiving my tweets through their mobiles. I’m still uncertain at this point what to think: I like the connection to my friends and colleagues, while most of the time (no offense) the entries are just passing thoughts. I do still wonder if my workflow performance will take a major hit by reading and posting tweets. Seems like it would, doesn’t it? Ironically, what I thought was the silliest use of Twitter, from a mobile phone, I now see as the way of wasting the least amount of time. I can envision sitting in traffic or in line and sending out tweets, as there’s nothing else to accomplish at the moment.

[update 5/8/07] I think I’m failing. I just can’t afford to keep typing into the box what I’m doing at the moment, as I multitask. Twittering becomes another task in the load. Using iChat, Twitterific, the WordPress blog-to-Twitter plug-in and Firefox twitbin plug-in. It has been fun to keep tabs on what my colleagues (”Friends” in twitter) are doing, but even that has been hard to keep reading. The more time I spend in the browser (Firefox), though, grading, blogging, and other things, the twitbin sidebar has been the most valuable so far.