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Resources to learn more about uPortal 3 Theme and Skin

In which I share some convenient links to more information about uPortal 3 theming and skinning. read more


Wordle for My Blog

Inspired by Eli Cochran's fluid-talk post, I took a quick look at Wordle and what it says about my blog. read more


Looking forward to PodCampAZ 2008

I look forward to attending PodCampAZ 2008, having enjoyed the event last year while volunteering at the registration desk. read more


Congratulations to Eric Dalquist and uPortal on the release of uPortal 3.0.2

uPortal 3.0.2 is a patch release incorporating significant performance enhancements and numerous other fixes beyond uPortal 3.0.1. Eric Dalquist today announced the general availability of uPortal 3.0.2. read more


Ruby, Builder, and CourseManagementXML Data

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...


Cernunnos 1.0.0 Released

Those of you who have read my previous blogs probably know that I've been working on an open source Java project called Cernunnos for some time now (okay -- in this case "some time" is a bit over two years). I'm happy to report that yesterday The...


California web technologist and instructional designer Sakai job opportunities

I saw Steven Ryan of the Kaiser Permanente Hayward Physical Therapy Fellowship in Advanced Orthopedic Manual Therapy post job descriptions for a web technologist and an instructional designer on the Sakai open forum email list (there posted becaus...


FCKEditor config.js pain

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 an...


A Warning About uPortal 3 and MS SQL Server

Here's something you really should know if you use the MS SQL Server database platform and you're considering an upgrade to uPortal 3: you will need to enable the ALLOW_SNAPSHOT_ISOLATION and READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT options in your portal databas...


Congratulations to the JASIG CAS Project on Release of Version 3.3

I write to congratulate Scott Battaglia of Rutgers University and the other CAS developers on the successful release of JASIG CAS Server 3.3. read more


Recent uPortal Contributions from Johns Hopkins

Over the past few months, I've had the pleasure, once again, of working with Johns Hopkins University on their uPortal system. This effort reinforced my earlier conclusions about the folks at JHU: talented people with great attitudes. read more


Attractive Preferences Presentation uPortal 3

uPortal 3 ships with an attractive UI for adding content to a page, adjusting the layout of a page, and moving portlets around within a defined layout for a page. This blog post walks through these features and presents them with screen shots. re...


Electronic learning leadership opportunity at Oxford

I could not resist Adam Marshall's invitation to post in my blog news of an opening at Oxford University for an electronic learning leader. read more


JASIG Membership and Unicon Cooperative Support Membership

Someone wrote to me asking the difference between JASIG institutional membership and Unicon Cooperative Support membership. I'm hoping it will help awareness and understanding of this to answer here. read more


uPortal Permissions and Error Handling

In which I describe uPortal's support for permissioning, using access control on technical information about error conditions as an example. read more


uPortal as self-service portal platform

Someone asked me recently whether I think uPortal is a good platform for delivering a self-service portal. My answer is that it is, and in this blog post I explain why and give examples of how it has already been used to deliver such experiences....