Category Archives: Whipple Hill

Secured Pages Under Public Menus Workaround in WhippleHill Podium

We had a need where we wanted some pages for the Parents’ Association to have public pages in our public navigation but also wanted to limit access to a few of the sibling pages. This is not the default functionality … Continue reading

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Preparing Video for The WhippleHill Brightcove-Based Media Gallery

Starting January 10th, WhippleHill moved the multimedia back-end of their Podium platform to Brightcove for a number of reasons I won’t cover here but all positive in the grand scheme of things. But, this did leave me with the … Continue reading

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Using FFMPEG To Prep Video For Whipple Hill Podium

Even going to Adobe CS5 and switching OS X 10.6.x to 64-bit doesn’t really make the process of taking Quicktime video to Flash in a reasonable timeframe. So, enter FFMPEG command-line tools. I have been playing with many different settings … Continue reading

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My LWHS iPhone App live on Apple App Store

It went live on July 4th. All you need to do is go into the Apple App Store on your iPhone or iPod Touch and do a search for LWHS or Lick-Wilmerding to find it. If you have an iPod … Continue reading

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L-W iPhone App on the way!

Should be getting an iPhone App shortly for my school, Lick-Wilmerding. We are waiting on Apple to clear the application through its crazy approval process. This will be a great way for Lick-Wilmerding Students, Parents, Faculty and Alumni to stay … Continue reading

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