We are very excited to announce that Corey Selover has accepted a position as a Software Engineer for the Web Technologies and Services Team. Corey will start her new role effective November 6.

Corey graduated from Middlebury in 2010 and, after a brief stint away, returned to teach at the Red Cedar School in Bristol for four years.  She currently resides in Seattle, WA, where she practices Aikido daily.  She developed and released the video game Zorbit’s Orbits in her free time over the past six years and still loves to program games in her spare time.  She is very excited to rejoin the Middlebury College community!

Several of us will be in Baltimore this week attending DrupalCon 2017. The keynote sessions are typically streamed live and videos of the session talks are usually posted by the end of the day.

Updates

• Drupal references 7.x-2.2
• WordPress 4.7.4
• WordPress Appointments 2.1.0.1
• WordPress MailPoet Newsletters 2.7.10
• WordPress RSS Includes Pages 3.7

Fixes and Tweaks

• Reference fields on the Museum of Art site were migrated to Drupal’s entityreference module. The old references module was uninstalled from the Course Hub and Drupal forms sites, removing the ability to add tags to images on those sites.
• Fixed an issue where the “click to expand” links on the top right of news story images weren’t working in the Middlebury Drupal site.
• A few additional fixes to ensure that HTML in excerpts on the MiddSTART and MiddGOAL sites is not corrupted when loaded in the WYSIWYG editor.
• The Panopto Embed plugin is now enabled by default on sites.miis.edu.

Ongoing Work

• Creating a new website for the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
• Building out the configuration of our  CAS servers in Chef, which is a configuration management system. We have already completed this work for our Drupal, WordPress, MediaWiki, GO, Omeka, and the Course Catalog services.
• Upgrading the Drupal sites for the Davis programs, Dining Menus, and Museum of Art to Drupal 8.
• Integrating Panopto (streaming videos) and Canvas (LMS).

There is a SiteImprove extension for Chrome that can help editors catch broken links in their Drupal sites. We are reviewing a module to add this directly into Drupal for people who use other browsers.

Updates

• Drupal date 7.x-2.10
• Drupal media 7.x-2.0
• Drupal webform 7.x-4.15
• WordPress Academica theme 2.0.3
• WordPress BE Subpages Widget 1.7
• WordPress CM Tooltip Glossary 3.5.4
• WordPress Disqus Comment System 2.87
• WordPress Hueman theme 3.3.9
• WordPress Jetpack 4.8.2
• WordPress OSM 3.9.1
• WordPress Responsive theme 2.5
• WordPress Sydney theme 1.38
• WordPress WPtouch 4.3.15

Fixes and Tweaks

• Staff who take summer courses in the Language Schools will now display with their staff contact information during the both the summer and academic year on the Online Directory.
• Pages in Drupal with multiple sidebar sub-pages will now show the “[Edit]” and “[Edit hidden]” links at the top of the sidebar region so that extra sidebar page can be removed.
• Fixed an issue with HTML excerpts on the MiddSTART site.

Ongoing Work

• Creating a new website for the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
• Building out the configuration of our  CAS servers in Chef, which is a configuration management system. We have already completed this work for our Drupal, WordPress, MediaWiki, GO, Omeka, and the Course Catalog services.
• Upgrading the Drupal sites for the Davis programs, Dining Menus, and Museum of Art to Drupal 8.
• Integrating Panopto (streaming videos) and Canvas (LMS).

Updates

• Drupal colorbox 7.x-2.13
• Drupal views 7.x-3.16
• Drupal views_data_export 7.x-3.2
• WordPress Co-Authors Plus 3.2.2
• WordPress Duplicate Post 3.2
• WordPress Hueman theme 3.3.8
• WordPress Jetpack 4.7.1
• WordPress NextGEN Gallery 2.2.3
• WordPress Search Everything 8.1.9
• WordPress WP Custom Fields Search 0.3.28

Fixes and Tweaks

• The Classifieds site was taking too long to sync accounts, causing some people to be dropped from the site. We’ve changed the process so that it moves in users one group at a time, allowing the full list of accounts to get added.

Ongoing Work

• Creating a new website for the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
• Building out the configuration of our  CAS servers in Chef, which is a configuration management system. We have already completed this work for our Drupal, WordPress, MediaWiki, GO, Omeka, and the Course Catalog services.
• Upgrading the Drupal sites for the Davis programs, Dining Menus, and Museum of Art to Drupal 8.
• Integrating Panopto (streaming videos) and Canvas (LMS).

The embed code on MiddMedia no longer includes a Flash player option. We will be retiring the Adobe Flash Media Server and moving to strictly HTML5 video, which works on all modern browsers, mobile browsers, and Internet Explorer 9+.

Updates

• WordPress Accelerate theme 1.3.0
• WordPress Auto Post Thumbnail 3.4.1
• WordPress Parabola theme 2.1.3
• WordPress WP Postviews 1.75
• WordPress Responsive theme 2.3
• WordPress RokoPhoto Lite theme 1.1.9
• WordPress Search Everything 8.1.8
• WordPress Sydney theme 1.37

Fixes and Tweaks

• The event content type on the Middlebury Drupal site now has an “anchor” field allowing direct links to events when they are shown in a list view.
• Several minor updates to the inquiry form on the Language Schools site, including addition of fields for collecting current university and degree sought.

Ongoing Work

• Creating a new website for the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
• Building out the configuration of our  CAS servers in Chef, which is a configuration management system. We have already completed this work for our Drupal, WordPress, MediaWiki, GO, Omeka, and the Course Catalog services.
• Upgrading the Drupal sites for the Davis programs, Dining Menus, and Museum of Art to Drupal 8.
• Integrating Panopto (streaming videos) and Canvas (LMS).