http://jay.shao.org Thoughts and Ruminations, where I write about personal things, Rutgers, eLearning, JA-SIG, uPortal, Sakai, and other topics or commentary as it takes my fancy. Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:12:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en » [Safari 4] PubSubAgent wants access to KeyChain Tim’s Weblog: "" A bunch of support forum posts seem to confirm it too - that Safari 4 (possibly 4beta -> 4.0 upgrade) breaks the Keychain linkage -- hopefully there'll be a fix soon. http://jay.shao.org/2009/06/20/safari-4-0-mac-breaks-keychain/ According to Safari 4 this blog is back on the Google malware list, though the Google Website Owner tools (which look neat) don't appear to flag any warnings, and it's not clear why that would be the case. The report sounds pretty innocuous, though oddly it shows up as being ... http://jay.shao.org/2009/06/17/more-google-malware-woes/ Blackboard buys Angel Learning - Washington Business Journal "Education software maker Blackboard Inc., which was losing money a year ago, reported a break-even quarter and announced plans to acquire fellow education software maker Angel Learning Inc. for $95 million in cash and stock." Another one bites the dust... http://jay.shao.org/2009/05/06/blackboard-buys-angel-learning-washington-business-journal/ Some interesting sakai-ux discussion tied in with thoughts I've been having recently related to native vs. integrated services and content in portal-type environments... where do the lines get drawn, and how do you handle horizontal services? From a functionality/architecture point of view, the idea of loosly coupled integrations with external services ... http://jay.shao.org/2009/04/04/sakai-tools-insideoutside-the-box/ Miss the little buggers (at grandma & grandpas) already... http://jay.shao.org/2009/03/31/kids-helping-out/ Just updated their Safari plugin - seems to work great in Safari 4.0 Beta. Also added a nifty embedded flash viewer that has lots of the same visualizations and whatnot. ... http://jay.shao.org/2009/03/22/cooliris-nee-piclens/ Loading the kids in the car The front yard http://jay.shao.org/2009/03/21/friday-snowfall/ Its a bit creepy when Facebook shows you the birthday of a friend who has passed away. The FB kids weren't thinking about death and divorce. http://twitter.com/gwachob http://jay.shao.org/2009/03/10/from-twitter-facebook-meets-life-realities/ Listening to Scott talk about CAS4 work and effort. Core items he's mentioned look to be: Redesigned to better support non-CAS protocols (e.g. SAML, etc.) Increased emphasis on SAML as a product Better admin tools (service administration, workflow for registering services) Eased configuration (w/o needing to edit deployerContext.xml) Better extension points: captcha, "password expired" messages Governance ... http://jay.shao.org/2009/03/02/jasig-cas4/ In Dallas at the Jasig Conference, getting ready for the Board meeting where we'll be looking at licensing, incubation, and some other strategic concerns related to open-source in HigherEd. Already had some great conversations about CAS & credential replay, Peoplesoft integration, and open-source economics & dynamics. P.S. Ian Dolphin clarified over ... http://jay.shao.org/2009/03/01/at-jasig-dallas/