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Don’t Stop at Gmail | The Hoya

Dec

3

2008

Don’t Stop at Gmail | The Hoya: “Georgetown has never been on the cutting edge of technology. Changes to our e-mail system and wireless service have come slowly, and the university is still in the process of revamping data security following a major security breach last semester. Here is an opportunity to cut costs without ...

FCKEditor config.js pain

Aug

28

2008

So… I was editing config.js to cut down the option from the default Sakai toolbar configuration for a Sakai build (which makes a huge diffence in being able to see stuff in the richTextAreas). I got burned for a while (well, 10 minutes anyway) due to Firefox and some aggressive JS caching. Did a bunch ...

On Google’s Malware List

May

27

2008

A week or so ago, I got an email from a friend: ????????Just in case you haven’t noticed this yet, Google links to jay.shao.org now include warnings about malware: Jason E. Shao Â» Blog Archive Â» Sakai SVN Vendor Branch Outcome This site may harm your computer. Jul 17, 2007 … Sooâ€¦ yesterday I completed ...

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 ...