Institutional Knowledge

Wherein we tie ruby to Oracle.

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There have been many comments about how LTO it is that the “login form” is not on the [first portal](https://newportal.csuchico.edu/uPortal/render.userLayoutRootNode.uP) page you hit. There are multiple reasons for this.

1. Authentication to the portal is not actually handled by the portal, but by our Central Authentication Service.
2. CAS will not allow credentials to be based […]

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I just picked up the latest “Beta Book” from those prolific Pragmatic Programmers, Enterprise Ruby. I’m also a beta reader of Pragmatic Ajax, along with dead tree versions of Programming Ruby 2nd Edition and Agile Web Development with Rails. All of them are excellent books. These guys are like the new O’Reilly.

That […]

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That magic moment is almost upon us. The moment when there will be but a single portal on campus. No more Old Portal. No more New Portal. Just “Portal.” The last bit of work to extract student information from the old system has been done. Now all that remains […]

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