High Ed Hangout

We take a trip down memory lane to some old PBS shows and transition to GVSU’s choice to put ColdFusion out to pasture. We look at the positives and negatives to alternatives for them.

• Ken remembers the PBS Zoom intro song (1999 version)
  • Zoom intro (1976)
• Daniel remembers PBS 3-2-1 Contact
• GVSU is changing away from ColdFusion to PHP
  • What frameworks?
• How do we migrate everything over?
• Can GVSU build a custom form builder in some 3rd party CMS?
  • WordPress Gravityforms
• It’s hard to recruit developers in ColdFusion
• Where to host? Locally or cloud?
• Conference options
• Decline in students
• Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education (book)

Daniel has a work emergency and joins us late. We take a look at our top podcast downloads and dig into details about Daniel’s plans for showing/hiding audience content on the UALR website.

We get into our experiences with working remotely and how we like it, GVSU’s new president, our beards, and the Ooopsie Poopsie podcast is finally coming soon!

The conversation starts with different (interesting… disgusting) ways to ingest alcohol. We chat a bit about new MacBooks before transitioning to conference that (Dave is speaking at a few. Daniel talks about his experience at WordCamp National, and we get into the recent WordPress controversy

It’s been a while since we gathered to record, so we reminisce for a bit before talking about poop (in relation to Andre’s upcoming podcast “Oopsie Poopsie”). We hit on recent travels, and then before concluding quickly mention websites.

• Andrea’s podcast (Oopsie Poopsie) is coming soon… and so we talk about poop for a good while.
• Dave and Dan went to Europe
  • Dave had a life-changing Chocolate Souffle
  • “The Chocolate Bomb”
• Daniel is traveling this summer
• Little Rock, AR has some great food!
• Daniel joined a D&D league
• Thank god for the Hazelnut!
• Michigan legalized Marijuana
• Our websites are all doing well.

Two of us have moved into a new house and one of us has returned from a vacation in Greece. We catch up a bit and chat about a WordPress conference and home networking equipment.

It’s our 50th episode (gold is the gift to give us). Only one couple has ever made it to their 90th anniversary.

Daniel went to Greece (for 9 days)

Ken and Dan went to WPCampus Conference

Beer + Yogurt = yuck, a report from WPCampus (project Gutenberg), and a discussion on WWDC updates.

Does yogurt plus beer work?

Is there a git for audio editing?

Daniel and Ken going to WPCampus (schedule)

WWDC

Evernote Sucks! #nevernote

New Zenbook Pro has a screen for a touch screen

Ken is pushing VS Code again

We spend a lot of time going down the wormhole of old Tweets this episode, which leads us to all of our old internet posts (and some embarrassment).

We share some of our favorite web tools again before tornado sirens go off in Iowa

HighedWeb vs. Wp Campus Conference (Ken and maybe Daniel going)

Google IO Extended local conferences

Don’t say dub-dub-dub for “WWW”

The semester is almost over. When does your school start?

What’s your favorite new tool when it comes to your web work? Then explain why you like it so much and how you use it.

The tornado sirens went off in Iowa.

What’s the structure of our university systems? What are our favorite university websites? Academic logos vs athletic logos. Dave’s dog joins in on the conversation.

How are your state universities structured?

Dave is speaking at a conference and they provided some questions.

Talking about university logos.

Athletic mark vs. the academic mark.

Loki the dog