Institutional Knowledge

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Entries from March 2008

The Arrival of Multi-Search

March 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Meriam Library has announced the arrival of Multi-Search. This is an exciting new way to search the catalog as well as several online databases that we have access to like JSTOR and Academic Search. In the past students would have to search each journal database and our catalog separately. Now, everything is handled through a […]

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Tags: Information Design · Search

CAS Strikes Again

March 24th, 2008 · No Comments

In the last two weeks, WEBD has upgraded two of our big services: Confluence and JIRA. As apart of these upgrades we turned over authentication to CAS, our single-sign-on service. Now users will be able to jump back and forth between Confluence and JIRA without having to login a second time. Confluence now becomes a […]

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Tags: Authentication

Automating Website Screen Captures on OS X

March 24th, 2008 · No Comments

We have 23 campuses in the California State University system and I like to know what all of them are doing on their web sites. Sure, I could dig into the Way Back Machine, but I find that can give inconsistent results. Instead, I decided that I wanted to automate getting screenshots of […]

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Tags: Misc.

Tomcat SSL Performance

March 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Wherein we discuss the poor performance of ancient versions of the Java Virtual Machine.

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Tags: Authentication · Recent Projects