Institutional Knowledge

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

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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 flipped the switch on our web server migration project. We migrated the campus web server from SunONE to Apache. We had a number of issues to deal with. The big ones were:

User names were going from an old 8-character limited shellid to our user friendly LDAP uids.
Going from Solaris to […]

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ProjectLines of CodeLines of Test CodeEquipment Disposal297160System Status430328Room Reservations379293Omni (In Progress)273346

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.

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