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Updated Rutgers to Samigo 2.4

So I finished merging in the Samigo 2.4 changes to the Rutgers code base yesterday the [instructions in the wiki](http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/SAM/Running+Samigo+2.4+in+Sakai+2.3) were actually very good — one small mis-merge on my part, but aside from the self-imposed pain the merge went quite smoothly. So far, the defaulting to off of the rich text areas is a ...

Sakai SVN Vendor Branch Outcome

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 ...

uP3 Day 1: Download & Install

Downloading uP3 quickstart was easy enough. Faizan exported RC1 from SVN and imported it into our CVS repository. build.properties seems not to have made it — maybe some kind of .cvsignore filter he had on Eclipse when he did the initial checkin. Tried hooking up to Oracle, ran into problems… Spent 30 min or so ...

GPL Java

http://www.infoq.com/news/2006/11/open-source-java It has finally happened. Sun today announced that Java SE, Java ME, and Glassfish are being open sourced under the GNU General Public License v2 (GPLv2) with Sun today releasing an early build of the Java SE 7 HotSpot JVM, the javac compiler, and JavaHelp in the new OpenJDK project at Java.NET which will be the project ...

Nielson on Computers of 2034

Thirty Years With Computers (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) bq.. We’ll also spend a big percentage of the computer power on defense mechanisms such as self-healing software (to root out bugs and adapt to changing environments) and aggressively defensive virus antibodies. We’ll need such software to protect against “social engineering” attacks, such as email that purports to ...