TPR1: MediaWiki Fundamentals
A live demonstration of the installation and setup of MediaWiki on a LAMP Server (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP).

PRESENTER: Jonathan Fuller, Colorado Community Colleges Online

TPR2: Getting Started with WordPress Blogs
This is a live demonstration of WordPress installation and setup. The first half will cover the basics of installing the software, adding users, and installing themes and plugins. The second half will dig into the various user roles and how themes work.

PRESENTER: Stephanie Leary, Texas A&M University System

TPR3: Taming the Apache Log File Monster
This presentation will cover logging directly to a MySQL database using mod_log_sql. The data can be indexed and immediately accessible using a Web application, a desktop database query tool such as MS Access, or directly via a SQL command.

PRESENTER: Jeremy Wyatt, University of Rochester

TPR4: Avoiding the javascript:void(‘’): Accommodating 1.0 Users in a Web 2.0 World
As we move to a Web that relies more and more heavily on JavaScript we have to remember that JavaScript is not always a given. A little bit of “old school” creative thinking can go a long way in ensuring that your Web applications will support anyone who needs them, regardless of the browser they use or their accessibility needs.

PRESENTER: Jason Pitoniak, Rochester Institute of Technology

TPR5: Adding Google Maps to Your College Website
This session will present techniques for using the Google Maps API on college websites. The API, released to the public in July 2005, allows developers to integrate these dynamic maps into their own Web pages.

PRESENTER: Paul Dempsey, Dickinson College

TPR6: Adding Interactive Content to Your Website Using JQuery
The JQuery JavaScript library is an easy way for you to add interactive functionality to your site. Even a novice programmer can use JQuery and its plugins to create dynamic navigation menus, FAQs, image galleries, and forms.

PRESENTERS: Jaclyn M. Whitehorn, The University of Alabama
Gina Tinney, The University of Alabama

TPR7: Easy Web Services with Visual Studio 2005
This session is a simple walk-thru showing how to create a Web service that connects to a database and provides images that can be displayed on a website. This is popular with professors and administrators, allowing them to pull class rosters of student images.

PRESENTER: Paula Yandow-Reilly, University of Rochester

TPR8: XML and the College Website — Why the Time is Right
XML combined with XSL is the ideal way to tame the beast of Web management, but is it worth the burden? Come learn more about how to reduce the risks and speed your migration to XML/XSL.

PRESENTER: Lance Merker, OmniUpdate, Inc.

TPR9: Form Processing — The Database Side
In this session we'll examine a method for providing a database form processor that any developer can use but takes a genius to break. We’ll look at methodology and code for processing both simple and complex forms.

PRESENTER: Chad Killingsworth, Missouri State University

TPR10: Improving Web Search at Yale: Implementing and Managing the Google Search Appliance
This presentation is a report on our year of experience in implementing the Google Search Appliance (GSA) for campus-wide search for the roughly 500,000 public pages at Yale.

PRESENTER: Carmine Granucci, Yale University

TPR11: pdPortfolio: A Web-Based System for Managing Professional Development
pdPortfolio was born out of these needs for a searchable database of in-house training opportunities, and a Web-based registration system to accompany them. The program also streamlines reporting for managers, who can view a snapshot of their staff's participation at a glance.

PRESENTER: Christina Dulude, Duke University

TPR12: HTTP 101 — Or, What Exactly IS Under the Hood?
Usually, the details of HTTP are hidden from view: the average user thinks "http" are simply four letters at the beginning of a link. However, to a Web programmer — or even a Web designer in these days of client side XMLHTTPRequest scripting — knowledge of the details of how HTTP messages are constructed and interpreted can be useful.

PRESENTER: Jason Woodward, Cornell University School of Hotel Administration

TPR13: The Life Cycle on A Web Application
The session will discuss of the life cycle of converting a client side Access application into a .Net web application using ASP.NET, SQL Server, CSS, and HTML. We wil also discuss the challenges of customer service, security, and technical issues that we came across during this project.

PRESENTER: Peter Huynh, Temple University