Indiana has built a database structure that has triggers (in Oracle) to copy changes to db tables into backup schemas (per table/schema). This allows them to recover deleted, or other data, by retrieving it and copying it back into the appropriate table. Resources on the file system are handled via snapshots (on a NetApp?)
Some caveats [...]
Chuck Sev. is doing a demo of some of the new features that have been ported into Charon Portal in trunk. Additional hooks in Ian’s new portal Impl support multiple Velocity
Features
Hierarchy - sub sites, NO INHERITED AUTHORIZATION, velocity templated Single Tool View - edit Page order, and the toolbar/nav disappears so that you’re focused on only [...]
Ian’s talking about plug-able back-end implementations for ContentHosting and the Resources tool. Looks like a VFS type layer that should support adding arbitrary backing stores - the example he gave was DSpace, but people are talking about other stores like AFS, iTunes, etc.
One of the comments that’s come up during the discussion is how do [...]
Caught the last half of U-Camp at Sakai — mostly a presentation on RSF, from a designer’s perspective. There are pieces of RSF that do look attractive — plain (X)HTML templates, Spring integration, etc. I still wonder if the world needs yet another component framework — especially one that’s essentially proprietary to Sakai/Higher Education. Tapestry? [...]
The flight into Amsterdam from Newark was about an hour late, unsurprisingly. Once here things were pretty smooth — the train to Amsterdam Central Station was very nice. Once I got to Central station, I spent a few minutes trying to sort out the right tram to take to the Movenpick for the Sakai conference, [...]
(at the last minute) I’m going to be in Amsterdam next week at the Sakai conference. I’d love to link up with anyone there — IM jayshao or drop me email through the contact form and let’s pick a time to get together.
Single Mind Consulting - Summary of Sakai
Furthermore, Sakai is designed as a series of independent tools built upon a robust, standards-based framework (uPortal). <snip /> Sakai’s uPortal is a powerful portal environment that utilizes the portlet specification to ensure interoperability.
This particular perception - that Sakai [...]
Dutch Sakai News & Opinions: New Executive Director for Sakai Foundation “Sakai Foundation Board of Directors, has announced today that we have a new Executive Director: ‘After a thorough search I am pleased to announce, on behalf of the Board of Directors, that Michael Korcuska has been named Executive Director of the Sakai Foundation, effective July [...]
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