Institutional Knowledge

Not long after the Virginia Tech shootings there was an article on the College Web Editor blog asking if Twitter could be used for emergency communications. I argued that this would be a poor use of Twitter and of campus resources in a situation where resources are critical. I still stand by my […]

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Yesterday we were cruising right along in the portal. Things were looking quite good for the first day of the fall term. We were sustaining over 1,500 concurrent users, but let me stop here for just a second and visit what this means. Before we were running uPortal we ran another “monolithic” […]

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The fall term officially starts on Monday, but our portal servers will be very, very busy Sunday night as student and faculty get online to check their schedules and classes. Last year at this time we had well over 1,000 concurrent users in the portal for most of the night, as you can see […]

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As the summer winds down, WEBD has successfully completed the uPortal upgrade that we’ve been diligently working on for the past month. In addition to moving to the uPortal 2.6 framework, and DLM based layouts, we’ve improved the presentation layer quite a bit.

The most exciting element of the upgrade is the move away from table […]

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Note: For those students looking for Alcohol Edu, please login to the portal and go to the Records, Registration, & Finances tab. There will be a link to Alcohol Edu on the right. The reason that it is in the portal is that the portal provides a single sign-on to the service so […]

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We’ve been tinkering with the campus search interface. Recently, we added a list of popular search terms from the previous day. It’s like a daily Zeitgeist right on the search page! Brilliant! Would something like this be helpful? Test out the new interface and let us know what you think! Go Search!

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Yesterday, we updated the CAS interface. It’s now based on the Yahoo YUI CSS library. Working with the YUI library has been a blessing. We’ve converted most of our web applications, as well as any websites we create, and even a few we update, to use the YUI library. Next up to get converted to […]

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I just about went bonkers when I found no easy way to search subfolders in Outlook 2007. First, the Advanced Find box was nowhere to be found (hint: Ctrl+Shift+F). Then, I discovered that my beloved “search all subfolders” checkbox was gone! Oh noes!

Google was no help a month ago when I discovered the problem. Today, […]

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This came up in a discussion between Scott and I today and I realized that it would be good to provide the context in which the statement was uttered.

When that sentence first spewed forth from my frontal lobe, I was attempting to convey the advantages (at least in our heterogeneous university IT environment; unknown for […]

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