Institutional Knowledge

Wherein DNS bites us.

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So, Java does DNS caching. The Network Operations guys really don’t like that. Luckily, you can tell it not to.

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The old portal is officially dead. Why was there an “old” portal at all you ask? That’s a very good question with some interesting answers. And by “interesting” I mean to me and not so much to you.

But in reality there was one reason and that was the two student information systems. […]

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Wherein we play with using CAS with rails apps.

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And not a drop to drink. Or something like that. So there are a ton of tutorials to get you up to speed on the details of AJAX. But what if you already “get it” and just want to use a higher level library? They are all pretty early in the […]

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But then, I repeat myself.

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If you were a student, would you read your prof’s blog? Would you use the knowledge for good or evil?

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Interllectual has the bullet points of rule from the keynote presentation at HighEdWebDev 2005. I gotta go to some of these things…

Corporate expectations in a non-profit budget

“Yup.”

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Doing virtual hosts on campus can be a bit of a pain, mostly because we need to get entries made to DNS for each host. It’s not a huge deal, but the Net Ops guys have better things to do. We just aren’t setup for ISP/web hosting like places such as Dreamhost and […]

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Wherein we compile php rpms with Oracle support.

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