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Ruby, Builder, and CourseManagementXML Data

Sep

15

2008

We needed to populate some training course and class rosters into Sakai to let people play with site creation, roster attachment, and publishing tests to students. While we could have used webservices, we decided to leverage the built-in CmSyncJob and generate an XML file to dump out the data, and then sync it into the ...

Portlets2008 and CampusEAI Annual Conference Recap

Jun

2

2008

>ландшафт. the exhaustion that was the combined CampusEAI Portlets2008 and Annual conference is now behind us, and it seems like time for some reflections and observations. Hopefully some of these items will be items which I expand upon at a future date, but in no particular order, dumped straight from my brain: * JSR-168 is ...

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 ...

Dominos Gets Actionable Intelligence

Mar

14

2008

So I was ordering a pizza today from Dominos (been a while, but being car-less around lunch tends to limit options) and noticed that they have just about the coolest web feedback system for an order I’ve seen: So, not only can I see an estimated delivery time, but if I leave the browser open ...

Blackboard Won. Making the case for open source

Feb

24

2008

Blackboard Won:This just in A Texas jury has found Kitchener software company Desire2Learn Inc. guilty of infringing on an American competitorâ€™s patent.The verdict, announced this afternoon, allows Blackboard Inc. to demand a ban on sales of Desire2Learnâ€™s products in the United States. (Via e-Literate.)Michael F. isn’t the only one who’s speechless at this decision. The ...