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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


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...


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


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 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....


Millikin University Profiled in JASIG Newsletter

I found the Millikin University community profile in the July 2008 JASIG newsletter to be a worthwhile and heartening read. read more


Introductory uPortal content on www.unicon.net

This is just a roll up of a few links about uPortal on www.unicon.net. read more


Getting started with uPortal: Part 1

Slides and narrative from 04 June 2008 presentation of Getting Started with uPortal (session 1) at the Portal 2008 conference hosted by Gettysburg College. read more


Getting started with uPortal: Part 1

Slides and narrative from 04 June 2008 presentation of Getting Started with uPortal (session 1) at the Portal 2008 conference hosted by Gettysburg College. read more


Illinois State University posts uPortal job

I'm pleased to see Illinois State University post a job description for a Portal Developer to work on their uPortal deployment and I take a moment to draw attention to this opportunity here in this blog post. read more


Congratulations to the Fluid project on release of Infusion 0.3

I write to convey my public congratulations to the Fluid project on the release of Infusion 0.3. read more


Portlets2008 and CampusEAI Annual Conference Recap

So… 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...


On Google’s Malware List

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 m...


How to make wiki markup your default Confluence editing mode

This third post in a series on using Confluence effectively describes how to set wiki markup as your default editing format. read more


Wikis and email lists over conference calls

In which I discuss my dislike of conference calls and preference for email lists and wikis for collaboration on open source projects. read more