Yes, this blog will have sports in it. I can’t help it. After all, I am covering the women’s soccer team right now.
In addition to being the WVUR webmaster, I’m a member of the WVUR Sports staff, broadcasting numerous Crusader sports contests and analyzing them on Your Crusader Sports Source (6-7:00 P.M. every Wednesday). Right now, Peter Berg and I are in Milwaukee to call the women’s soccer team’s action at the Horizon League Championships, and we are having a great time so far…
On the way to Milwaukee, we watched Miracle, a fantastic sports movie about the U.S. Hockey Team’s victory over the Soviet Union in the 1980 Winter Olympics. We are also eating great food, passing Miller Park and the Allen-Bradley Clock Tower (world’s largest four-faced clock) on the way to the field, and we’re now in the championship game. Valpo played a great game against Wright State in the semis, and they will face Milwaukee for the tournament title on Sunday. Because the Wright State match was the WVUR Game of the Week, the Milwaukee match will become WVUR Game of the Week #2! Broadcast starts at 12:40 P.M. on 95.1-FM, WVUR. It should be a great game to follow, but that’s enough of me for tonight. I’ll talk some more about this at another time.
Happy birthday, Sesame Street!
Chris Kleinhans-Schulz, Webmaster
Chris Kleinhans-Schulz Sports, Webmastering Crusaders, Webmaster
This is the link to the blog schedule for WVUR managers. The plan is to have 2 blog entries “each week,” which does contain some overlap when months begin and end. Each manager should have one post per month unless otherwise noted. As General Manager, Cameron can post an entry whenever his little heart pleases.
Every week contains the names of 2 departments and a date. This indicates who needs to blog and what date indicates the start of your “blogging week.” I will also send email notifications to managers to remind you of your posting dates in case you forget or are confused.
These are the “rules” for the special blogging weeks. The last 2 weeks in December have “XMAS” listed. During this time, I’d like to have everyone write a “Christmas post” in addition to your regular assigned monthly post. In spring break, the word “optional” is listed. Naturally, anyone who is scheduled to blog during those weeks does not have to do so, but anyone who wants to post something about their spring break is more than welcome to. Finally, May has “Seniors, TBA” scheduled. Everyone should write a final post about your year whenever you choose to do so. For seniors and any other non-returning managers, this will be more like a “Goodbye” post of some type.
That’s all I have for everyone today. I’ll be back soon for my November post. As always, ask me any questions you have.
Happy birthday, Lutherans! (It’s not just Halloween today)
Chris Kleinhans-Schulz, Webmaster
Chris Kleinhans-Schulz Webmastering Blogging, Webmaster
2 months ago, everything was different. As a management staff, we were preparing for SourceStock 2009 and the school year hadn’t even started yet. Now, I’m just thankful that I finally get a break. Fall Break is a great time for me because I can take some time off, but I can also catch up with my radio and school work.
I really enjoy being here at Valpo, especially at WVUR. I’m the station’s webmaster, a DJ, and a member of sports staff. That, combined with classes, keeps me pretty busy, but it’s fun, too. Over the next few days, I’ll host a volleyball broadcast, call play-by-play for a men’s soccer broadcast, and I’m also preparing to put a new banner on the website’s home page. It’s a new venture called “WVUR Game of the Week” where we promote a special broadcast we’ll be airing over the week, like an important conference match or an instate rivalry game. Plus, the time away from classes gives me an opportunity to catch up on school work. That way, I can feel less overwhelmed by the time classes resume and I’ll have less work to do later. Let’s not forget, I’m going to spend a lot of time doing nothing. It’s well deserved considering how hard we’ve all had to work over the last two months.
Overall, I’m really looking forward to Fall Break. It’ll be a great opportunity for everyone to relax and recharge before returning to the daily grind of work and school. That’s it for Post #1. Hope you all enjoyed.
Happy birthday, Jim Rome!
Chris Kleinhans-Schulz, Webmaster
Chris Kleinhans-Schulz Webmastering Webmaster
Yesterday I started work on upgrading our website from Joomla 1.0 to 1.5.10. This would be like whistling (really easy) for me, except for the fact that our server is not directly writeable. We have to upload to a stage server which then syncs with the live server every even hour.
I got the new version of joomla installed and now the template just needs to be modified to look like the old one.
Training has started with next year’s webmaster, Chris Kleinhans-Schulz. He’s a quick learner and he can come up with some goofy dummy-text — a skill needed by any webmaster.
For now things are going well. Let’s hope the end of this year and next year goes well.
Jeff Lange Webmastering joomla, Webmaster
I went into this weekend with a project on my shoulders. This project is the DJ Challenge which happens to be a rap battle created by the amazing Harry Cassin. I did not know how the previous voting system worked, so this was not good.
Jeremy Wilken, the webmaster before me, was amazing at coding. He was also was very good at training me. However, he couldn’t teach me everything he knew. One of the things that he didn’t teach me was how the DJ Challenge system worked. By my judgement, this is the most complicated thing on the website. Not only does it let people vote for things, but it plays audio and displays little bar graphs, all generated by PHP and MySQL. Before Jeremy left for Germany he gave me all of the files he had on his computer. I had to walk through the thirty-something PHP files to figure out exactly how the system worked. It’s really quite elegant and amazing. There’s a database that holds all of the votes. The voting page is a iFrame (not to be confused with an iPhone) embedded in the Joomla CMS, which allows for it to look nice and run form elements otherwise shunned by CMS.
After I figured out how every file worked, I found a wierd redundancy that brought the voter to a page that looked like the WVUR site, but was on a different server. I decided to get rid of this and just display the voting confirmation/error message in the iFrame.
I never thought I would get out of this project sane, let alone with a better solution. Please let me know how you like the voting process either by email (jeff.lange1@valpo.edu) or in person.
-JL
Jeff Lange Webmastering DJ Challenge, Rap Battle, Webmaster
I finished the blog schedule for the entire year. This is for managers, but I figured that I might as well blog about it as well. I have two posts lined up each week the entire school year, which is ambitious, but you have to aim high.
The schedule is right here, so you have no excuses for knowing when you have to blog. However, if you do have questions about when to blog, please email me. I also got the applications uploaded for the interview process that will soon be upon us. And by us I mean Cameron.
I’m sure I’ll have more work to do after tonight, which is always fun. For now, I’ll see you guys next week or so.
Jeff Lange Webmastering Blogging, Webmaster
Today I had quite a bit of work to do, but I only had one project. Cameron wanted to launch the “corporate” blog today, and I knew that this project could be either very simple or extremely difficult. Luckily, it wasn’t too hard to do.
I started off by downloading the latest version of Wordpress from wordpress.org. I then uploaded the files to our server here at Valpo. Then I had to do the webmaster shuffle and wait until the next even hour (at the time it was 5:50 pm) which was 6 pm. After that, I confirmed that all of my configurations were correct. I then browsed some sweet themes over at wordpress’s theme viewer. I found some nice looking, corporate-esque themes that I liked. I created some usernames and passwords, and called the project a success. Now for the hard part: the content.
Jeff Lange Webmastering Webmaster