Tag Archives: CompSci

Code reuse blockers

Posted on June 4, 2011 by sean

Software code reuse has always been seen as one of those religious dividing concepts. Some claim it is heaven, while many, even if subconsciously, believe it won’t work. But surely we must fight this tendency to improve our efficiency, and … Continue reading →

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Errors arising from faulty approaches

Posted on June 4, 2011 by sean

Yes, we all get them, foibles of the human condition. Faulty reasoning that traps us in the hell of our errors. But this quote from George Polya is like a little prayer and should be incanted when anyone forgets, or … Continue reading →

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Where forward for UHI VC From HD 1080p?

Posted on October 17, 2010 by sean

So, here at UHI we are just finishing installing a refresh of our entire VC infrastructure, which we depend upon in a critical fashion. We have the highest number of 1080p capable codecs deployed in any HEI in Britain, if … Continue reading →

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10 dying IT Skills

Posted on June 29, 2009 by sean

Here is an article from Jody Gilbert outlining 10 IT sills areas that are currently fading into obscurity. Laughingly, UHI employs 2 of them as core architectural components in its service provision, namely items 1 and 2! Tweet

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HTTP 1.1 10 years old

Posted on June 14, 2009 by sean

By dereferencing http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt, one finds the Last-Modified date was Fri, 11 Jun 1999 18:46:53 GMT. Tweet

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OR09: Fedora Repo Technical Update

Posted on May 20, 2009 by sean

Chris (now Technical Lead for Fedora Repo in DuraSpace) gave a brief overview of technical work and developments in Fedora 3.2.x Tweet

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OR09: First Duraspace Meeting

Posted on May 20, 2009 by sean

So, Michele Kimpton and Sandy Payette gave their first joint show together, as Executive Directors for Duraspace. Tweet

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OR09: Reusing Open-Access Content Using Authoring Tools

Posted on May 19, 2009 by sean

Lieven Droogmans (@mire) spoke about some work to leverage a DR against Word and PPT from Office 2007. Tweet

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High-resolution Web Friendly Images Using DJakota

Posted on May 19, 2009 by sean

There is an interesting project on the go, started out of Los Alamos, called DJakota (pronounced jay-2-kay) that is OSS Java software that builds upon a rich set of APIs and libraries to provide a service framework for the dynamic … Continue reading →

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OR09: Enabling Inter-Repository Access Management between iRODS and Fedora

Posted on May 19, 2009 by sean

Carrying on from the last talk, Bing Zhu (UCSD) continued to speak about iRods, specifically about its integration with Fedora. Tweet

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