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Toward Real Extensibility in Sakai

0zach17th Jul 2009Conferences, For Developers, Sakai, Technologies

At the Sakai conference in Boston, I sat on a great panel with other developers and discussed what it would really take to More »

Sakai Permissions In-Depth

0zach12th May 2009For Developers, Sakai

Actions in Sakai are identified by a text label, like “content.read” for ability to read content or “site.add” for the permission to create More »

What if a Hard Drive is Only a Cache?

1zach25th Nov 2008For Developers, Technologies

When computers like the MacBook Air started coming equipped with solid state drives (SSDs), I thought the technology is cool, but it seemed More »

IMS Learning Impact

1zach22nd May 2008Conferences, IMS, Sakai, Technologies

Last week I was at IMS Learning Impact 2008 just up the road in Austin. The Sakai Foundation generously sponsored me to go, More »

The Winding Journey of Java DB

1zach1st May 2008For Developers, Technologies

Java SE 6 has finally arrived on the Mac with a recent update, so I was over on Sun’s website reading about all More »

The Business Value of SOA

2zach28th Apr 2008Found on the Web, Technologies

Having heard about SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) for a long time without having any idea what it is, I was happy to discover More »

Bollywood Blackboard!

0zach21st Apr 2008Found on the Web, Fun Stuff

Oh, this just makes my day. Here’s a small series of humorous episodes related to recent Blackboard and Open Source Learning Management Systems. More »

WordPress 2.5 coming soon

0zach26th Mar 2008Technologies

Matt Mullenweg gives us a preview of the soon-to-be-released WordPress 2.5. http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/wordpress-25-rc2/ They’ve been working with the web geniuses at Happy Cog and More »

New Screencast: the Sakai App Builder Plugin for Eclipse

1zach11th Feb 2008For Developers, Screencasts,

My new eleven-minute screencast is about how to use Aaron Zeckoski’s App Builder plugin for Eclipse to jumpstart your new Sakai tool projects. More »

Getting Started with Sakai: Setting Up Eclipse

2zach1st Feb 2008For Developers, Screencasts,

I have just posted part two of my series of screencasts on how to get started developing for Sakai. This one is all More »