gps10's blog - February 2006 Archives

February 2006

Roundcube Updated (03:08) - I have upgraded RoundCube, a web-based e-mail client, to the latest and greatest version and am salivating. The new version... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

University Budget Made Available (14:33) - The university budget has been made available to faculty and staff at http://www.cwru.edu/provost/budget/. However, being a lowly student, I cannot... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
The Current State of the Information Portal (02:22) - The subject of portals has been brought up in many of my previous posts. Once again, portals are at the... | 0 Trackbacks | 6 Comments

Basic Expectations of Enterprise Software (18:46) - In a few of my previous posts, I vented some steam about my disappointment with so-called "enterprise" software. To prove... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
I Really Hate Blackboard (13:14) - In my never-ending pursuit to provide better services to students and other members of the campus community, I was looking... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments
The EECS Department and Horde are Providing What Oracle Can't (01:20) - I have known about Horde for a while now. For those not in the know, Horde is an application framework... | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments

Another Social Networking Site (21:05) - grou.ps has the goal to "provide a sharing platform for social groups." They have abstracted services such as photo and... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Mr. Belafonte, Where Were You? (13:35) - Harry Belafonte canceled his scheduled talk so he could attend Coretta Scott King's funeral. This is all fine, except he... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Case Wiki Hits 1000 Users (01:24) - I just noticed that the [[Main Page|Case Wiki]] has hit the 1000 users mark! Since the wiki can log you... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

SIS Launches New Case Forums (01:51) - [[Student Internet Services]], or [[SIS]], the group behind home.cwru.edu is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the new Case... | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Student Affairs Now Using CAS (11:41) - Joel Kraft has informed that Student Affairs and all of its daughter sites (Career Center, Housing, etc) are now using... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments
Blackboard Now Using CAS (11:10) - I woke up this morning and saw that [[Blackboard]] is now using [[CAS]] for authentication. W00t. It's not even noon... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Alternatives to Using Case Web Mail (12:26) - Many people complain about the user interface to Case's web mail. Did you know there are at least three other... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Greek Life Web Site Given Facelift (11:25) - I visited greeklife.case.edu this morning and was relieved to see it had been converted to http://studentaffairs.case.edu/greek/. It now features the... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

phpClasses Becomes Case Classes, New PHP CAS Module (20:10) - Brian Beck wanted to share his Python skills with everybody. One thing led to another, and he was posting code... | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments

FIRE Gives Case Red Light Concerning Speech Code (22:45) - FIRE, whose mission is "to defend and sustain individual rights at America's increasingly repressive and partisan colleges and universities" has... | 0 Trackbacks | 3 Comments

Fostering PHP Development at Case (23:50) - I love programming in PHP. Despire what your opinions of PHP might be (there are a LOT of people out... | 2 Trackbacks | 11 Comments
Case Wiki Named "Wiki of the Weekee" (12:41) - Wiki That! has named the [[Main Page|Case Wiki]] it's 17th "Wiki of the Weekee." In their announcement, they rate the... | 0 Trackbacks | 3 Comments

Case Single Sign-On Service Upgraded (18:22) - If you have been to login.case.edu lately, you will notice it has changed from when you last saw it. [[CAS]],... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Gotta Love the Editorial Cartoon (00:43) - One thing I am instantly in love with is that The Observer's new website updates with Friday's stories at 12:00... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Stopping Referral Spam With Apache (11:39) - I hate referral spam. It is pointless. If you run Apache, there is a an easy way to curb it... | 0 Trackbacks | 1251 Comments
My War Against Spammers (01:25) - 216.195.35.13 is the biggest fan of the [[Main Page|Case Wiki]]. In the last three months, he has sent 135695 HTTP... | 1 Trackbacks | 31 Comments