Institutional Knowledge

Web Services is getting a four letter acronym: WEBS

To that I say, w00t.

Top 5 Queries

1. Summer Orientation
2. Housing
3. Transcripts
4. Academic Calendar
5. Financial Aid

June can be characterized as a month where the main users of the CSUC website were incoming freshman. Orientation, housing, and financial aid are all terms that are currently relevant to new students.

In fact, one of the few signs of non-freshman activity was the search for transcripts that were made available mid-June as grades were posted from the spring semester.

Another interesting term which didn’t crack the Top 5 but was a solid 7th was SB 569 which is a Senate Bill that deals with privacy of information. In specific, the Alumni Association was offering alumni a way to decline special offers from insurance or credit card companies.

I should probably be the last person to talk about crazy project names…but Cyrus Murder? Really? Does that scream “transparent back-end mailbox aggregation” to anyone?

Yeah, me either…

Omni presently has no user interface or logic controlling the handling of information. It’s just models, associations, and tests. It’ll be interesting to see how big it will grow over the next couple of weeks.

In an effort to further abstract the CAS Login portion of our Ruby on Rails applications, I’ve taken our CAS Login Module and turned that into a plugin that can be included in any past or present Rails applications and managed separate from the development of the applications themselves. You can read all about how the plugin works and how to use it in your application on the Developer Wiki.

This also marks the beginning of our public Subversion repository allowing other developers to access our code via SVN. Currently, the CASLogin plugin is the only source available and only Web Services has write permissions to the repository.

Links

• http://developer.csuchico.edu/wiki/ruby_on_rails:caslogin_plugin
• http://developer.csuhico.edu/svn

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