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Sakai: Powered by uPortal?

Jun

7

2007

[Single Mind Consulting – Summary of Sakai](href=”http://www.singlemindconsulting.com/files/white_sakai_described_v1.pdf) > Furthermore, Sakai is designed as a series of independent tools built upon a robust, standards-based framework (uPortal). > `` > Sakai’s uPortal is a powerful portal environment that utilizes the portlet specification to ensure interoperability. This particular perception – that Sakai contains an embedded uPortal instance which ...

Power Blip

May

27

2007

Just lost power for about 20 seconds… it’s kind of strange when the lights go out, but the laptop stays on. Really, the biggest problem was that the net connection went down. Otherwise — the battery is supposed to be good for 3 hours or so… Heh. Tried to post this before the network came ...

Facebook Platform – In-road to HE Legitimacy?

May

25

2007

http://developers.facebook.com/index.php Facebook has once again made it the coolest platform ever by opening their API further, and most importantly supporting sessions that don’t expire every 24 hours. There’s been a lot of talk on the web about this helping them to monetize Facebook’s user base through commerce partnerships. I think that’s true, but I also ...

JRuby on Rails WARs

May

23

2007

At Portlets2007 I was talking with Greg from St. Thomas about Rails, and he showed me a Rails app he had deployed out using JDeveloper and OC4J — basically Rails inside a WAR file. Very cool — and apparently easy enough to do that he got it working *during* my session on PortletMVC. Not sure ...

Windley Post w/Microforomat vevent in NNW

May

22

2007

This was so cool: Phil Windley’s publishing event references as microformats (hevent) in his blog posts, and NNW picked them up and created a little “add to iCal” button. This was so cool I had to ping Phil about it: I’m excited that it worked! I’m playing with it. I just wrote an Emacs function ...