Institutional Knowledge

I’m writing up an internal document to help sell the use of our JIRA issue tracking system. Right at the beginning I try and set expectations at a reasonable level for what a good issue tracking system really does.

You work on n projects, each having their own set of issues {x,y,z}. This work […]

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We are quite happy to announce that we will be bringing you live coverage of South by SouthWest 2006 this year. As we type, our corespondent is on his way to Austin to file Earth shattering reports, as they happen.

Developing…

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I logged into my Wildcat Mail today just to see if there was anything of interest. In fact there was, but it wasn’t the mail I’d received, that was all junk. It was the size of my SPAM folder.

23 megabytes! Oy vey! Currently the student email system catches SPAM before it gets to your inbox […]

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Lately we’ve being using a lot of new tools. The big question is how do you know when you are spending time trying out something that will be of genuine use and when you are just playing with the latest shiny thing. The answer, typically, is you don’t. There are no sure […]

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Wherein we all rediscover MVC, for the first time.

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Do:

Routinely clear out old data from databases

Don’t

Let the size of your database get out of control

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We’re running a little experiment over here in MLIB 410. We’ve created a uPortal Development blog as a means for communicating with the uPortal community and anyone else interested, the processes, discoveries, tips, and tricks that we encounter while maintaining our Portal application.

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Wherein we see people search for jobs.

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