Jason E. Shao

Just got off the plane and am at the hotel for the Sakai Conference (explains the flurry of blogging — no distracting internet, so time to write )

I’ll be out in Newport Beach, CA from Fri 11/30 - Fri 12/6. If you’re around (esp. Fri night) and looking for something to do give me [...]

The Ed Techie: What Mailbox limits reveal:

Grainne posted recently about the frustration of continually getting the ‘Your mailbox is over its size limit’ in our OU email accounts. I can’t tell you how annoying this - sometimes I am just trying to send a quick response to someone before I have to dash out of [...]

While working on merging 2.5 into our local trunk, I was doing a bunch of svn merge –dry-run, svn merge statements, and thought “wouldn’t it be nice if subversion could color-code the status output for me.”

svn help didn’t produce a –color or –colorize option, so some googling lead first to a handy sed recipe: sed [...]

Eric posted the video from uPortal’s EDUCAUSE Catalyst award onto Youtube:

So, the JA-SIG un-conference (even the working sessions) is over, giving me a chance to do some thinking and reflection about the event and its aftermath.

Overall, the attendance, interest, and excitement demonstrated by all of the participants was pretty overwhelming. We had both more individuals, institutions, and organizations represented than we ever would have [...]

Blackboard Is Losing Customers, but What Does It Mean? at e-Literate

“The big loss appears to be unambiguously in Blackboard Basic licenses. One factor that theoretically might have contributed to this loss is consolidation of Basic licenses under a consortial Enterprise license. In this case, the loss of a license wouldn’t equal the loss of a [...]

After taking out a while to do introductions and handle the administrativa (even unconfs can’t seem to get away from it) we’re into the lightning talks which I’m trying to keep up with to podcast. They’re going pretty fast, we’ve gone through something like 6 so far, and they’re coming up fast.

Update: I was reminded [...]

Now on Google Earth: Map where Congress spends your tax dollars | Tech news blog - CNET News.com

“The Sunlight Foundation on Tuesday released a downloadable Google Earth layer that plots what it says are some 1,500 earmarks attached to a proposed U.S. House of Representatives defense spending bill. The Washington-based group describes its mission as [...]

Fourth Annual NJEDge.Net Conference | A Hard Eye on What IT Buys: Re-thinking IT Service Organizations:

“ad-hoc-cracy” and a a mention that only 2 industries (IT and Illicit drugs) refer to their customers as users highlighted this presentation. Overall the presentation was good, though I think at the end of the day, the audience question was [...]