Uh Oh Whitespace

WordPress is installed everything is all dandy but every time I save my post it would come up with a whitespace issue. What happened? Earlier I had edited the functions.php file with code that would leave the admin bar when users were not logged in and provide an easy way to get to the login screen.

So the problem I had was somehow some text or whitespace (spaces, newline) was inserted before the opening PHP tag or after the closing PHP tag in my theme’s functions.php file. There can’t be a single character before or after those tags.

Once I removed the extra whitespace everything was just dandy again!

Where oh where did the admin bar go?

So I found this beautiful theme that reflected the name of my site and had a pixi feeling to it as well. There was a big issue though. When I went to the site my admin bar disappeared. Back to the dashboard and it reappeared. Why wouldn’t it appear when I was on the site view?

So like I usually do I started to attack google with my question. After much searching I found that there was specific code that had to be within the theme. Within the theme, you must have:

<?php wp_footer(); ?>

usually directly before the </body> tag in footer.php

Can Design and Technology Fix America’s Education Problem?

Jon Kolko
Austin Center Design
@jkolko

Dennis Littky
Big Picture Learning
@Dennis_Littky

Steven Tomlinson
Action MBA
@speelunk

1. Sense making thru rapid prototyping
2. Empathy
3. Adductive Reasoning

Action MBA in Entrepreneurship – Action MBA

Created things that engaged by games

Asking the wrong questions?

How do students learn best? What is learning?

Follow your passion and interests and help them follow it.

Call teacher advisor who’s a generalist

College UnBound

– Post From My iPad2

Location:San Jacinto Blvd,Austin,United States

Hacking RSS: Filtering & Processing Obscene Amounts of Information

Hash tag – #hackingRSS

Dawn Foster
http://fastwonderblog.com/

Yahoo Pipes

What is in a Feed? PostRank (Yahoo Pipes View)

• Content in feeds varies wildly depending on site
• Common: title, author, pubDate, link, content, description
• Site-specific: postrank, lat/long, image links, username, twitter source … (most RSS readers don’t show these)
• API: usually has additional data & can output RSS

Example

• Input PostRank Feeds:
  • Engadget
  • CrunchGear
  • Boy Genius
• Filter by content

Reformatting / Modifying RSS Feeds

BackTweets – gives data on links regardless of shortening service

Yahoo Pipes combined with APIs can create a powerful environment for filtering RSS feeds.

How to Personalize Without Being Creepy

Hash tag – #seenocreepy

Mat Harris – @matharris bizgreet
Jen King – @kingjen berkley
Hugo Liu – @dochugo hunch
Vijay Ravindran – @vijayravindran washingtonpost
Noah Weiss – @noahweiss foursquare

Marketers are acting like 17 year old boys trying to see how they can be intimate quickly with their customers. Don’t jump into bed with your users get intimate by building a relationship that will last.

Think of personalization as dialogue with users.

Personalization should be around data users chose to enter, not data or assumptions based on life events.

Audio File

– Post From My iPad2

Jeffery Zeldman’s Awesome Internet Design Panel

Platforms
Have we gone back to the 90s designing to a particular browser and device?

Resources
Treesaver

Print publishers don’t get it they are moving in so many directions. What’s broken is the business model. We can’t fix that they have to fix it themselves. Pricing model is also broken.

The web doesn’t have to be ugly!

Readability

Do we need to curate data?

Audio file

– Post From My iPad2

Location:E Cesar Chavez St,Austin,United States

The Politics Behind HTML5

Video Issues

Is it HTML5′s job or the formats job to do DRM? HTML working group needs to stay out of that kind of politics.

Compuserve gif yes I remember!!!

Block ARIA from HTML5? Why?
Two groups working on HTML5 those that think accessibility is important and those that don’t

Keeping longdesc in HTML5

Accessibility can’t just be a feature it needs to be brought up as a core issue.

– Post From My iPad2

Location:Lady Bird Lake,Austin,United States

One codebase endless possibilities – real HTML5 hacking

Surprising turn out first thing in the morning and after the notorious SXSWi time change, the hashtag for this session is #hack5. Presentation available at http://bitly.com/hack_5

Joe McCann
Creative Technologist
subprint.com
@joemccann
github

To clear up myths HTML5 is just the next version of HTML and it’s all one word HTML5. Also HTML5 will not solve everyone’s issues.

Web Stack Benefits
-Signifactly reduces development costs
- Significantly

A Single Codebase!!

Tools for the Web Stack
- Phonegap
- Sencha Touch
- Appcelerator Titanium
- jQuery Mobile
- YQL
- Node.js

Demo of phonegap, Appcelerator titanium, node.js

Many clients including mac os browsers and mobile browsers. Need clients folder and server folder.

Android users can get a native app at boo no iOS app.

Can’t believe how full this session is more and more people keep coming in!

All the code is open source and available at github

Still getting used to the iPad workflow so it’s inky the second half but here is an audio file of the session.

– Post From My iPad2

Location:Lady Bird Lake,Austin,United States

Cheaper Faster Better

Last session of the day finally got my WordPress blog working again and blogpress on my iPad2 working. That said here are some thoughts on this session.

Large number of casual gamers are female. The big problem is there are not enough teachers. Another issue is the price of textbooks. Solution can be as easy as updating an app. Homework sucks but games can be built to be online collaborative and it will suck less with friends. Smart kids get held back, gaming can provide a way for these students to excel. Games can create simulations of real world situations. Games can solve or aid in a lot of educational issues.

FableVision

Resources:
labyrinth.thinkport.org

BiteClub
financialentertainment.org

Time vs quality vs budget
OR
Faster vs better vs cheaper

MIT Education Arcade
Scot Osterwell

How much is hype in educational hype? We really have to concentrate on the freedom of play. games challenge us to master things that are difficult.

Can Casual Games Save Education?!

– Post From My iPad2