Dan Milliron

Art Lit 2.0 Websites Are Here!


over 5 years ago by Dan Milliron on Dan Milliron's Blog.
The Art Literacy website program for Uplands Elementary and other Lake Oswego schools is back!  The following websites are "fully operational" (just...

Chronicles of Emarm


almost 6 years ago by Dan Milliron on Dan Milliron's Blog.
Sometime soon, I plan to launch www.emarm.com, a website that uses simple email forms to help parents and teachers work together for the benefit of students...

meantime_filter vs. exception_notification


over 5 years ago by Dan Milliron on Dan Milliron's Blog.
Two very useful Rails plugins that don't play well together are meantime_filter and exception_notification. The first allows controllers to tap into the...

A Great Way to Help Your Student!


almost 6 years ago by Dan Milliron on Dan Milliron's Blog.
Parents and school teachers have an important common interest: the student. But the relationship between parent, teacher, and student can be difficult...

How Rails Creates Web Developers


almost 6 years ago by Dan Milliron on Dan Milliron's Blog.
Take a software engineer geek who knows next-to-nothing about SQL, HTML, or any other web technologies, and tell them that developing a data-driven web...

Multiple Sidebars in Typo


almost 6 years ago by Dan Milliron on Dan Milliron's Blog.
The standard Typo blog framework allows only one sidebar. This became an important issue when my wife decided to start a weblog recently. Since my own blog...

Daily Quotations for Typo


almost 6 years ago by Dan Milliron on Dan Milliron's Blog.
This is chapter two in the story of my wife's new blog, which I have built with Typo.  In chapter one, she commissioned me to create multiple sidebars...

Top 4 Features of the Art Lit Website


almost 6 years ago by Dan Milliron on Dan Milliron's Blog.
After a year of operation at Uplands Elementary, these features of the art lit website seem to be the favorite: Personalized Calendars A volunteer or teacher...

Art Lit is on Hiatus!


almost 6 years ago by Dan Milliron on Dan Milliron's Blog.
Where did the art lit web site go? It is on vacation getting rest and relaxation while Dan Milliron prepares the new 2.0 version. The old site would have...

What's coming in Art Lit 2.0?


almost 6 years ago by Dan Milliron on Dan Milliron's Blog.
The new features in Art Lit 2.0 focus on the following goals: Allow multiple schools to have their own art literacy site. Previously, just one school...