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Entries from October 2006

CalState Accessibility Workshops

October 30th, 2006 · 1 Comment

I hope to be providing some updates from the ATI workshops being held today and tomorrow. More when it actually starts…

The opening session pointed out a very scary fact: We’ll be seeing about a 10% increase in students with disabilities due to the war in Iraq. The first large attempt at accessible technology […]

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Tags: Conferences

CAS-ifying Wordpress MU

October 29th, 2006 · 1 Comment

A huge thanks to Andrej Ciho for posting his HOWTO CAS-ify Wordpress MU. This could be a big help for us, and many other institutions that are using CAS.

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Tags: Authentication · HOWTO · Weblogs

Conference Notes

October 24th, 2006 · No Comments

I’ve got 13 “notes” files to process when I get back. I was hoping to do lots of in-session blogging done, but the wireless made that “hard.” I don’t do hard very well, so I’ll just wait until it’s easy. It’s probably better this way as I’ll get to actually process the […]

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Tags: Conferences

HighEdWebDev 2006 First Impressions

October 23rd, 2006 · 2 Comments

Wherein I discover Rochester.

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Tags: Conferences · Web Development

JIRA Guide Update

October 19th, 2006 · No Comments

I’ve posted a small update to our JIRA Guide over on the Developer Network.

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Tags: Uncategorized

Fun with acronyms

October 12th, 2006 · No Comments

Old and busted:

ICR — noun: incremental coolness rollout

New hotness:

IRCS — verb: incrementally rollout cool sh stuff

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Tags: Uncategorized

Google Analytics

October 12th, 2006 · 2 Comments

is soooo passé…

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Tomcat 5 and SSL/HTTPS

October 3rd, 2006 · No Comments

The Apache Group has a fine howto for getting SSL going. But someday you might run into a situation where Tomcat has had the default server.xml trimmed down. At that time you might start running into odd errors, like:

ERROR: tomcat5.CoyoteConnector - Coyote connector has not been started

It would behoove you at this point […]

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Tags: Uncategorized

JIRA - A Moment in Time

October 2nd, 2006 · No Comments

Right now we have 30 projects, 58 users, 22 groups, and 648 issues. I expect that all of these will start growing as the various CMS groups come looking for help dealing with tracking project issues.

I say bring ‘em on!

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Tags: Project Management