Archive for March, 2011
Is UCLA setting a dangerous precedent with its response to student’s video?
I don’t talk much about social media here – it’s done better and in more volume by other higher ed bloggers and on Twitter, but the UCLA situation of the last few weeks piqued my interest. Alexandra Wallace, a student at UCLA, posted a video on YouTube making fun of Asian students in the UCLA [...]
Using Amazon S3 to Secure Your Wufoo Form
We use Wufoo a ton here at John Carroll – it was one of the first things I signed us up for when I got there a little over a year ago and it’s taken the campus by storm. Where there was previously no good way for people to do forms, registrations and feedback online [...]
Scaling WordPress for high traffic sites video
Matt Herzberger tweeted a link to this presentation by Ryan Allen, talking about how Envato uses WordPress for their sites, which does millions of pageviews a month. It’s not as much about scaling as about a look at some tools which you can use to monitor your hardware and identify bottleneck points in your WordPress [...]
