uPortal 4 is now available. It is a flexible framework for developing your institution's portal. This is the most flexible version of uPortal yet, overcoming the limitations of coding to particular APIs and adopting particular libraries to deliver maximum options to the implementor. Continuing with the best practice of using external libraries rather than inventing new code, uPortal 4 has less custom code than any prior version. In keeping with the best practice of loose coupling, no uPortal-specific code in uPortal 4 is coded to concrete classes.
For a powerful, loosely coupled, infinitely flexible portal framework, look no further than uPortal 4.
(Happy April Fool's).
Friday, March 31, 2006
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Yale Technology & Planning Jobs
Yale University ITS Technology & Planning has two -- count 'em two! -- openings listed. Technology & Planning is a great place to work -- awesome coworkers, good working environment, neat projects. Be interested in these jobs.
Systems Programmer I Requisition #: CCRF33463
Posting Date: 3/15/06
Department: ITS Technology & Planning Work Site: 175 Whitney Avenue
Salary Grade: 24 Duration: REGULAR - 12 MONTHS
Schedule/shift: Full Time - 37.5 HRS; Weekdays 8:30-5:00
Internal applicants send bids to: Corey Rossman, 155 Whitney Avenue
Job Description:
General Purpose
Work with a small focused senior ITS professionals that develop strategic technical directions for the University and explore emerging technologies.
Essential Duties of Position
1. Work in a collaborative fashion with a broad range of IT professionals to establish both needs and opportunities for emerging technologies.
2. Participate in large scale multi-University development efforts that utilize a fluid mix of both new and legacy development methodologies and technologies.
3. Track and evaluate emerging technologies in fields that include (but are not limited to) software development languages and environments, network, information security and telephony.
4. Produce technical white papers and presentations for consumption within Yale's ITS organization and at national conferences.
Education and Experience
1. Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience as well as a minimum of two years experience developing software in Java programming language.
2. Experience developing middle-tier applications utilizing Java Servlet/JSP technology. This experience should include familiarity with current design and coding approaches and methodologies.
3. Documented record of software development experience in either a corporate or university setting is necessary. Code samples may be requested and reviewed with the candidate.
Skills and Abilities
1. Demonstrated track record of inquisitive self-direction and the ability to learn new things rapidly and completely.
2. Familiarity with the basic principles of relational database design.
3. Experience with at least one other high level programming language is desireable but not required.
4. Technical familiarity with one of the following operations systems is additionally desireable: Unix/Linux, Microsoft NT/XP, Mac OSX
5. Excellent written and verbal abilities.
Systems Programmer III Requisition #: CCRF33464
Posting Date: 3/15/06
Department: ITS Technology & Planning Work Site: 175 Whitney Avenue
Salary Grade: 26 Duration: REGULAR - 12 MONTHS
Schedule/shift: Full Time - 37.5 HRS; Weekdays 8:30-5:00
Internal applicants send bids to: Corey Rossman, 155 Whitney Avenue
Job Description:
General Purpose
Take a technical leadership position working with a small focused staff of senior ITS professionals that develop strategic technical directions for the University and explore emerging technologies.
Essential Duties
1. Facilitate and lead in collaborative fashion projects involving a broad range of requirements as well as customers.
2. Participate in large scale multi-University development efforts that utilize a fluid mix of both new and legacy development methodologies and technologies.
3. Work with the University IT leadership to establish goals and directions for foundation technology that serve us into the future.
4. Track and evaluate emerging technologies in fields that include (but are not limited to) software development languages and environments, network, information security and telephony.
5. Produce technical white papers and presentations for consumption both within Yale's ITS organization and at national conferences.
Experience and Training
1. Bachelors degree or equivalent experience as well as a minimum of 6 years experience developing software in the Java programming language.
2. Experience developing middle-tier applications utilizing Java Servlet/JSP technology. This experience should include familiarity with current design and coding approaches and methodologies as well as a concrete and demonstrated ability to evaluate, adopt and fully understand complex software frameworks and architectures.
3. Experience with at least one other high level programming language
4. Experience with the management, performance characteristics and basic principles of operation either Unix/Linux or Microsoft's NP or XP operating environment.
5. Familiarity and practical experience with project planning approaches and the ability to budget both temporal and fiscal resources.
6. A documented record of software development experience in either a corporate or university setting is necessary. Code samples may be requested and reviewed with the candidate.
Skills and Abilities
1. Demonstrated ability to lead a technical team effectively.
2. Complete understanding of relational database principles and design.
3. Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
4 Demonstrated track record of successfully identifying, promoting and deploying products and services that represent long term value to their employer as well as providing bedrock technology upon which additional services are built.
Systems Programmer I Requisition #: CCRF33463
Posting Date: 3/15/06
Department: ITS Technology & Planning Work Site: 175 Whitney Avenue
Salary Grade: 24 Duration: REGULAR - 12 MONTHS
Schedule/shift: Full Time - 37.5 HRS; Weekdays 8:30-5:00
Internal applicants send bids to: Corey Rossman, 155 Whitney Avenue
Job Description:
General Purpose
Work with a small focused senior ITS professionals that develop strategic technical directions for the University and explore emerging technologies.
Essential Duties of Position
1. Work in a collaborative fashion with a broad range of IT professionals to establish both needs and opportunities for emerging technologies.
2. Participate in large scale multi-University development efforts that utilize a fluid mix of both new and legacy development methodologies and technologies.
3. Track and evaluate emerging technologies in fields that include (but are not limited to) software development languages and environments, network, information security and telephony.
4. Produce technical white papers and presentations for consumption within Yale's ITS organization and at national conferences.
Education and Experience
1. Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience as well as a minimum of two years experience developing software in Java programming language.
2. Experience developing middle-tier applications utilizing Java Servlet/JSP technology. This experience should include familiarity with current design and coding approaches and methodologies.
3. Documented record of software development experience in either a corporate or university setting is necessary. Code samples may be requested and reviewed with the candidate.
Skills and Abilities
1. Demonstrated track record of inquisitive self-direction and the ability to learn new things rapidly and completely.
2. Familiarity with the basic principles of relational database design.
3. Experience with at least one other high level programming language is desireable but not required.
4. Technical familiarity with one of the following operations systems is additionally desireable: Unix/Linux, Microsoft NT/XP, Mac OSX
5. Excellent written and verbal abilities.
Systems Programmer III Requisition #: CCRF33464
Posting Date: 3/15/06
Department: ITS Technology & Planning Work Site: 175 Whitney Avenue
Salary Grade: 26 Duration: REGULAR - 12 MONTHS
Schedule/shift: Full Time - 37.5 HRS; Weekdays 8:30-5:00
Internal applicants send bids to: Corey Rossman, 155 Whitney Avenue
Job Description:
General Purpose
Take a technical leadership position working with a small focused staff of senior ITS professionals that develop strategic technical directions for the University and explore emerging technologies.
Essential Duties
1. Facilitate and lead in collaborative fashion projects involving a broad range of requirements as well as customers.
2. Participate in large scale multi-University development efforts that utilize a fluid mix of both new and legacy development methodologies and technologies.
3. Work with the University IT leadership to establish goals and directions for foundation technology that serve us into the future.
4. Track and evaluate emerging technologies in fields that include (but are not limited to) software development languages and environments, network, information security and telephony.
5. Produce technical white papers and presentations for consumption both within Yale's ITS organization and at national conferences.
Experience and Training
1. Bachelors degree or equivalent experience as well as a minimum of 6 years experience developing software in the Java programming language.
2. Experience developing middle-tier applications utilizing Java Servlet/JSP technology. This experience should include familiarity with current design and coding approaches and methodologies as well as a concrete and demonstrated ability to evaluate, adopt and fully understand complex software frameworks and architectures.
3. Experience with at least one other high level programming language
4. Experience with the management, performance characteristics and basic principles of operation either Unix/Linux or Microsoft's NP or XP operating environment.
5. Familiarity and practical experience with project planning approaches and the ability to budget both temporal and fiscal resources.
6. A documented record of software development experience in either a corporate or university setting is necessary. Code samples may be requested and reviewed with the candidate.
Skills and Abilities
1. Demonstrated ability to lead a technical team effectively.
2. Complete understanding of relational database principles and design.
3. Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
4 Demonstrated track record of successfully identifying, promoting and deploying products and services that represent long term value to their employer as well as providing bedrock technology upon which additional services are built.
Friday, March 03, 2006
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
On Walled Gardens
The first issue is whether there is justification to try to reimplement an “educational” version of software when a perfectly good and popular generic version already exists.
It's important to be cautious of walled gardens. On the one hand there is the value of building a component in a tighter knit community where it can be more easily steered to meet very specific needs of the community and where the bandwidth of collaboration is limited to a manageable level. On the other hand there is the value of wider collaboration and thereby drawing a larger pool of contributions and interest.
As Michael Feldstein notes in his blog, there are times when higher education has unique needs and something to contribute by going after a need in a by, for, and about higher education way.
I worry too much. Lately, I've been worrying about two things in JA-SIG and uPortal. One of them is going after non-higher-ed-specific concerns in the context of JA-SIG. Yes, uPortal should have an awesome syndicated feed reader JSR-168 portlet. However, every other JSR-168-supporting portal on the planet has exactly this same need. There's nothing higher-education-specific about a syndicated feed reader. Therefore, the way to get the most participation, mindshare, involvement, etc., for such a portlet is outside the context of JA-SIG, is it not? Would it not be best to fork a SourceForge, Java.NET, JavaForge, etc. project wherein interested uPortal, LifeRay, JetSpeed 2, StringBeans, and other portal deployers with this need can collaborate on a single excellent syndicated feed reader portlet for use in all these portals? Or on several of them. There may be be room for several syndicated feed readers with different feature sets, but I don't think their adopters will be neatly partitioned by portal platform or even by higher ed vs. commercial. There are opportunities here.
Another worry is not going after higher-education-specific concerns in the context of JA-SIG. Java really is an architecture that can be used effectively in the administration of higher education. We've got to have some shared needs that are higher-education-administration but not pedogogical tools (teaching tools intended for use in the context of particular courses are likely most appropriately implemented as Sakai tools). What are they, and how to can we effectively pursue them in the context of JA-SIG to everyone's benefit?
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