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Monday 25 June

Obligatory Post on the iPhone (09:00) - First off, congratulations to Apple and Steve Jobs for creating such a frenzy over a device that only few have... | 0 Trackbacks | 8 Comments
Obligatory Post on the iPhone (09:00) - First off, congratulations to Apple and Steve Jobs for creating such a frenzy over a device that only few have... | 0 Trackbacks | 8 Comments

Sunday 15 October

Songbird Media Player (19:02) - I just discovered Songbird, a cross-playform (Windows, Mac, Linux) media player/iTunes clone. It is still in pre-release, but it looks... | 0 Trackbacks | 3 Comments

Thursday 12 January

Why I Love KDE (14:10) - After a long hard day of working on house improvement and computer projects yesterday, I decided to poke around KDE... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 27 October

Squirrelmail (22:46) - I have set up a SquirrelMail installation for Case users at https://opensource.case.edu/squirrelmail/. Enjoy the highly customizable webmail interface. IMO, it... | 0 Trackbacks | 3 Comments
Squirrelmail (22:46) - I have set up a SquirrelMail installation for Case users at https://opensource.case.edu/squirrelmail/. Enjoy the highly customizable webmail interface. IMO, it... | 0 Trackbacks | 3 Comments
It's Time to Emancipate Computer Help Documentation (17:13) - This post is spurred by the latest sigmac-talk mailing list thread about printing to Wade. For months now, Apple users... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 26 September

Google Blog Search Makes Searching Public Opinion Easy (16:13) - Google released Blog Search a few weeks ago. In short, it is a search performed on [[syndicated feeds]] on the... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Google Blog Search Makes Searching Public Opinion Easy (16:13) - Google released Blog Search a few weeks ago. In short, it is a search performed on [[syndicated feeds]] on the... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 22 September

Running a LAMPS Server (13:10) - If anyone out there is interested in an easy way to bring up a [[LAMPS]] server that is already optimized... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 15 September

Case Needs Course Data in LDAP (16:37) - Have you ever stopped to think about what could happen if Case's course offerings and course enrollment information were stored... | 0 Trackbacks | 4 Comments

Wednesday 14 September

Are Wiki Engines the Future of Content Management? (15:09) - Wiki software such as MediaWiki, the package that powers WikiPedia and the [[Main Page|Case Wiki]], is very robust and has... | 0 Trackbacks | 3 Comments

Monday 15 August

Google Sitemaps Significantly Help Spidering (14:10) - A week ago, I registered the [[Main Page|Case Wiki]] with Google Sitemaps (1). Today, I looked at the Case Wiki... | 0 Trackbacks | 13 Comments

Tuesday 9 August

Evaluating Single Sign-On Alternatives (11:09) - In a previous post, I raised the need for a replacement single sign-on service for the university and investigated the... | 0 Trackbacks | 9 Comments
Evaluating Oracle Single Sign-On (10:46) - Many of you know about login.case.edu. It makes your lives much easier because now you only have to enter your... | 1 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Friday 5 August

Java is Not a Web Application Language (09:48) - It seems that everyone is on the Java bandwagon nowadays. Along with XML, it is something that every project coordinator... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 3 August

my.case.edu Versus Open Content (11:36) - The Case Portal (my.case.edu) is always a hot topic for discussion. It has previously been mentioned on Blog@Case for [[IPTV]]... | 0 Trackbacks | 3 Comments

Wednesday 20 July

Replacing SOLAR (14:04) - If you are familar with SOLAR, you know one thing: it sucks. Here Case is, a leading university, stuck with... | 0 Trackbacks | 9 Comments

Monday 18 July

Storing XML in the Case Wiki (14:34) - In a previous post I outlined a basic plan for using a wiki to store information in such a way... | 0 Trackbacks | 6 Comments

Thursday 14 July

Wikis Used for Data Storage (10:04) - I have been thinking a lot lately about using wikis as a storage backend for data-- not text for an... | 1 Trackbacks | 7 Comments
My Daily Act of Kindness (09:59) - For those who were swamped with spam trackbacks (probably about Texas Holdem), I took the liberty of manually deleting every... | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments

Thursday 7 July

Why Are pear.php.net and www.php.net So Slow? (09:50) - Anyone else experience a long delay when trying to download a file on either php.net or pear.php.net? You click on... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Thursday 30 June

GPS on the Case Wiki (19:25) - The [[Main Page|Case Wiki]] now has the ability to associate a geographic coordinate with an entry. Now, when do the... | 1 Trackbacks | 4 Comments

Wednesday 29 June

Podcasting Raises Questions of Authority (09:16) - With the release of iTunes 4.9 yesterday, Apple gave millions of computer users the ability to easily join the podcast... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 28 June

Caving In: IT Lists (09:39) - Everyone else is doing it, so here it goes...... | 1 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Friday 24 June

The VOIP Phones Aren't Just a Paperweight (15:36) - The other day I was told to investigate the possibilities for interfacing with the new VOIP phones appearing all around... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Thursday 23 June

New Wiki Skin Issues (10:51) - After deploying a new skin on Wiki@Case I am once again reminded of how much I loathe designing web site... | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments

Wednesday 15 June

Local Linux Mirrors (22:44) - Does anybody know how much bandwidth is wasted every day because people are downloading the same files from the same... | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments

Tuesday 14 June

Announcing wiki.case.edu (16:30) - I am proud to announce the immediate availability of the official Case Western Reserve University wiki at http://wiki.case.edu. A wiki... | 3 Trackbacks | 5 Comments

Monday 13 June

Why I Haven't Made the Permanent Switch to Blog@Case (18:53) - I have been playing around with Blog@Case for a while now. I love the interface. I love the templates. It... | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments

Thursday 9 June

Developing the Case Wiki (12:20) - The cat has already been let out of the bag that ITS is readying to deploy a wiki for the... | 0 Trackbacks | 10 Comments

Wednesday 8 June

Download Your Oracle Calendar From the Web (18:37) - I put up a script that allows you to download your Oracle Corporate Time calendar (.ics file) to your local... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Wednesday 1 June

Help Desk RSS Feed (19:22) - When something breaks, people often turn to the Help Desk looking for answers. Their web site is usually pretty up-to-date.... | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 31 May

XML Course Reviews Output (21:35) - Due to popular demand, I have added XML output to the Case course reviews interface. Instructions are on the page... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 30 May

What is a Programming Language? (01:00) - Debates occassionally break out on this blog and other forms of media about the superiority of one programming language over... | 0 Trackbacks | 8 Comments

Thursday 26 May

Deciphering Computer Woes (20:29) - It is the time of the year when my PC running Linux decides to go on the fritz. Strangely, the... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Graphical Course Reviews Update (11:03) - I made some minor modifications to the graphical course reviews last night. I updated the individual course pages so the... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 24 May

Centralized Information Repository @ Case (23:43) - Are you ever left scratching your head after trying to find information on the university network? Do you ever set... | 0 Trackbacks | 6 Comments
Graphical Output of Course Reviews (00:21) - I have created a page which can give graphical output of course ratings. Log in with your Case username and... | 2 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Sunday 22 May

Benchmarking Academics at Case (13:00) - In a previous entry I described the procedures to parse all 14000+ course reviews from the Registrar's web site. Since... | 1 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Friday 20 May

Google... Backwards (10:08) - Google Backwards.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Better Course Reviews Interface (00:38) - The course review pages accessed through the Course Search contain information that students frequently take into consideration when planning their... | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 18 May

My Mac Never Ceases to Amaze Me (23:21) - Surfing around the net, I came across a gem of an article at Engaget. Apparently Tiger comes with a program... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 27 April

USG Calendar System Deployed (21:00) - The first version of the online calendar has been deployed on the Undergraduate Student Government web site. Neil Vaidya did... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 15 April

Oracle + SOAP = Cool Project (16:14) - I just found a draft of the Oracle Calendar Web Services SOAP specification. After playing around with PHP5's SOAP functions,... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments
When DNS Goes Bad (14:11) - The University's DNS servers appeared to have an issue earlier today. Of all services to go, this has to be... | 0 Trackbacks | 3 Comments

Wednesday 16 March

Syncronize from b2Evolution to Blog@Case (02:37) - I have added a script to my subversion repository that will allow users to automatically import entries in b2evolution to... | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 15 March

Export From Movable Type Using XML-RPC (19:03) - After discovering that you could use XML-RPC to interface with MovableType, I wasted no time working on syncronizing my blogs.... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments
Finally, A Free PHP5 Cache That Works (14:52) - I don't know why I didn't find this sooner (and I had been looking), but I finally stumbled upon a... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Thoughts About WEBDAV and XML-RPC (14:38) - I was playing around with WEBDAV on my blog last night. I replaced the index file with the source output... | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments

Monday 14 March

SSH Without Passwords (02:56) - Users who go between multiple Linux and UNIX machines are often retarded by annoying password prompts.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 23 February

Linux: One Year After I Made the Switch (13:33) - It was about a year ago that I first installed Linux on my desktop system. I had used Linux extensively... | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments