Portals | Jason E. Shao

Portals and LMSs (and Collaboration, SIS, Library, and other Suites)

Mar

31

2008

Clay from Georgia Tech shot me an email recently which spurred me to try and put to words how my thinking has evolved about the relationship of an enterprise portal and Sakai, and where these technologies and communities are heading. In general I think the focus of “enterprise portals” has always been one of integration ...

JSR-286 is Official – Does it matter?

Mar

10

2008

JSR-286 (the next generation Portlet specification) was approved last week. The major new features of version 2.0 include: * Events â€“ enabling a portlet to send and receive events and perform state changes or send further events as a result of processing an event * Public render parameters â€“ allowing portlets to share parameters with ...

Jason’s Employment 2.0

Feb

17

2008

Well the questions are pouring in (mostly due to my tardiness in writing this kind of announcement) and so, without farther ado… ## What Happened? While it still feels a little strange to say it, as of 2 Fridays ago (2/8) I am no longer employed at Rutgers University. Over the last 9 years as ...

The Ed Techie: What Mailbox limits reveal

Nov

30

2007

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 ...

uPortal Catalyst Award Video

Nov

19

2007

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