http://panitzco.com/Mike Some tech, some teaching, and some other stuff Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:00:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When I started teaching, way back in 2001, we didn't have the new-fangled, high-tech Learning Management System (LMS) web applications that we teachers have today, and my approach to grading my students' programming assignments reflected that.  Nonetheless I made my students submit electronic copies of their homework even back then, ... http://panitzco.com/Mike/tech/consolidated-interfaces-for-efficient-education-web-apps/ An overview of your jQuery options, by Mike Panitz As the summer winds down here in beautiful, increasingly overcast Washington state, I have to face certain facts.  Fact: if I don't get that stationary trainer set up, I'm not going to ride my bicycle this winter.  Fact: I really, ... http://panitzco.com/Mike/tech/jquery/using-jquery-based-datetime-picker-controls-in-cakephp/ Upgrading to 1.2.4.8284 stable from the 1.2.0.6311 beta. Recently, CakePHP.org released their 1.2 'stable' build (specifically, 1.2.4.8424), and appear to have moved on to working on version 1.3.  Since it's still a couple of weeks till my school starts up again, it seemed like a good time to move ... http://panitzco.com/Mike/misc/upgrading-to-cake-1-2/ An adventure in PHP's include, eval, and JavaScript! I am looking at using jQuery and AJAX as a means of making some of my forms in my StudentTracker© web app more streamlined.  Currently, I'm dynamically creating forms so that all the students' assignments are listed on a single page, ... http://panitzco.com/Mike/tech/generating-jquery-code-from-your-cakephp-controllerview/ First steps towards a drag-and-drop, calendar-based interface for assigning due dates in my StudentTracker web app. It's summer time, which means I finally have large(-ish) blocks of free time again.  Of course, with great time comes a great desire to accomplish something satisfying, so naturally I'm thinking about sprucing up my ... http://panitzco.com/Mike/tech/jquery/using-jquery-with-cakephp-the-basics/ My name is Mike Panitz, and I've been teaching computer programming (and occassionally math) at Cascadia Community College since 2001.  I put this blog together mostly for fun, but also as a platform to talk about (computer) technology, teaching, and how to apply one to the other. My homepage is at http://faculty.cascadia.edu/mpanitz/ http://panitzco.com/Mike/misc/hello-world/