Archive for July, 2007

Jim’s Famous! (Jonathan, JA-SIG, and uPortal too..)

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Open Source Portal Project Honored as Catalyst

Campustech did a short piece on JA-SIG uPortal winning EDUCAUSE’s Catalyst Award, where they mentioned the award, and then quoted some bits from Jim H… Jim Helwig, the project manager of the uPortal project at the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s Department of Information Technology, said the project represented the [...]

Fuel for Thought: Financial Page: The New Yorker

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Fuel for Thought: Financial Page: The New Yorker: In calling for a law requiring better gas mileage in our cars, then, voters are really saying that they’re unhappy with the collective result of the choices they make as buyers. This is a neat quote, summing up how competitive pressures can cause every individual to become pressured into [...]

Daddy, I love you…

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Chris’s new favorite before going to bed, or sitting on the couch thinking line

> “Hey, Daddy… I don’t like you, I love you!”

Peeing in the Potty…

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

Well, Chris did for the first time yesterday, anyway. I find this exciting whether the rest of the world thinks it’s TMI.

Sakai SVN Vendor Branch Outcome

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

Soo… yesterday I completed my 2.3.1 Sakai vendor branch merge, and it’s now up on a Rutgers test server. It’s been sanity tested, and is ready for further banging. Speaking of banging… it did take quite a few steps to get to this stage…

Note: 2.3.1 is a small merge, I think it was only about [...]

SVN Vendor Branch Wrangling

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

So… working on doing a relatively small SVN vendor branch upgrade, and so far finding things much more difficult than it seems like they should be.

Problem 1: This was my fault — I checked in a vendor drop using svn_load_dirs.pl which had different line endings from my existing SVN tree. Of course, that resulted in [...]

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