I my Fall '11 and Spring '12 Grand Tour o' computer programming I have now done the following: 1. Introduction to php (Lynda.com) 2.Introduction to Javascript and JQuery (Codecademy.com) 3. Light dabblin' with R and Python (Coursera.org) 4. Introduction to processing xml with xslt (UNL Profs. Amanda Gailey and Brian Pytlik-Zillig) 5. Several lessons on C and Objective-C (mostly iTunes ...
Boston: A Skunk of a Town
This won't be much of a blog post, but I recently traveled to New York City to do research on book designer and graphic artist Elmer Adler, and then I popped over to Boston to attend MLA13. I'm back in Lincoln, NE after a few more stops, and I'm now going back through my Adler ...
How .JSON Files Work (Esp w Data Visualization)
I'm spending some time this week increasing my understanding of and facility with .json files, jQuery, and html 5 animation. A quick Google search for JSON will tell you that it stands for JavaScript Object Notation. It's is a "lightweight data interchange format" that allows you to enter data with a text editor that you'll ...
Upcoding XML with XSLT (and why you might care)
About ten days ago, I wrote a post about using a web form with PHP to create an XML file. At that time, I mentioned that this was just phase one of a two part project I had undertaken as part of an independent study on XSLT with UNL Assistant Professor Amanda Gailey. Stage two ...
Confessions of a Coursera lurker
I signed up for two Coursera courses this Fall, partly out of a genuine interest in the subject matter and partly to check out how Coursera functions as a Massive Online Open Courses or MOOC web service. I signed up for "Learn to Program: The Fundamentals" and "Computing for Data Analysis" but failed to complete ...
Using a web form and PHP to create an XML file
This semester, I've been participating in an independent study on XSL/XML with UNL Assistant Professor Amanda Gailey. For my end of the year project, I chose to learn about the process of converting web form data to schema-compliant XML files using a combination of PHP (to power the form) and XSL (to make the resulting ...
Book History at the MLA in Boston
This is a mostly re-post of information sent out to SHARP-L by Greg Barnhisel, who is presiding over SHARP's official affiliate-organization panel. I'm gratified to be one of the presenters for this session, which is titled "Printing Science." I will plan to share any appendices for my paper, as well as the full text, as the ...
Full draft of my Western Literature Association Paper
As promised, I'm posting the full draft of my paper for the upcoming Western Literature Association annual meeting in Lubbock November 7-10. I'm also including the proposal I wrote for this paper. Since starting as a digital humanities postdoctoral fellow, I've become increasingly aware of the importance of open access to libraries and academia in ...
WLA Paper Appendices
A page from Voltaire's Candide, illustrations by Rockwell Kent, book design by Elmer Adler of Pynson Printers, published by The Literary Guild (1929) My Western Literature Association paper has two appendices that I'm hoping to point people toward if they are interested in what I present in a couple of weeks. The first is a list ...
My Western Literature Association Paper
On November 7, I'm heading to the Western Literature Association's annual meeting, which is being held in Lubbock, Texas this year. Because the WLA usually has a stalwart gathering of Willa Cather scholars, I'm excited to be giving a paper on Cather's connections to The Colophon: A Book Collector's Quarterly. For those of you unfamiliar ...