Archive for January, 2009

Obama: Build a Higher Education Cloud

In a blog post at InfoWorld, William Hurley writes an open letter to President Barack Obama. In it, he asks for a cloud computing platform for higher education.
He argues that in a time of budget shortfalls and cutbacks, faculty, staff and students have the ideas but lack the resources to gain access to the technology [...]

Amazon AWS

Fellowship of the Ring

I’m excited to announce I’ve been named a Technology Fellow with the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education. I’ll be doing research and teaching in the area of cloud computing. Needless to say, I’m very excited about this opportunity to learn even more about the cloud and share that knowledge with other liberal arts [...]

Cloud, NITLE

Page Validation The Easy Way

Since we redesigned our site a few years ago, I’ve done my best to ensure that pages validate as best as possible. We designed with XHTML 1.0 strict in mind, and at launch, at least, we met that goal on many pages.
The challenge is that we have many different people working on pages across several [...]

Web App, XHTML