By Michael Horn at MHProfessional.com…
Let’s revisit the topic of disruption in higher education, but from a different angle. In the past, I’ve written about community colleges and online universities targeting non-consumption, but there is a policy dimension to this as well.
via Another disruption in higher education: the teaching university | Clayton Christensen.
I’ve relocated to Atlanta to work as an IT Director for Emory University School of Medicine. The housing market looks grim so I’m renting a modest apartment. I miss my friends in West Virginia but my daughter and other relatives live here so that’s great! I’m also engaged to be married to Rhonda Smith of Nitro, WV fame. LOL.
Good reading prior to my assuming a new position where I have a sizable team of application developers.
By Joe Olson at MSDN Blogs…
Although you may not find many references to dev, test, staging, environments, these are critical to large deployments. Even in the commodity type space where you are simply hosting the out of the box SharePoint code, it still very important if not critical to have a “test” environment where you can validate that the service pack installs, and the steps you follow work, and most important of all it works with your environment. If there’s a user error in the install how much better is it that you learn it on a non critical environment. There are slight differences to all these various stages to deployment. Some more critical than others. Let me provide some insight into the differences. For the record I’m not saying every environment needs all of these, all the time, but they should be considered and incorporated into your planning at various stages. Much of these deployments can be served by virtual environments, but when it comes to perf and figuring out load balancing and some elements to clustering it is helpful to have hardware you can use. I’ve been in some environments where this is a check out process where hardware or virtual images can be allocated temporarily during that phase of the project. More and more I do expect to see environments to move to virtual, but as with anything testing is a major element and even when doing things virtually you’ll find that RAM and CPU are still important elements, so you can’t scrimp.
I’m working on a presentation of the Microsoft Shared Computer Toolkit for Windows XP to The West Virginia Statewide Technology Conference. The presentation is scheduled for Tuesday, August 8, 2006. The PowerPoint presentation slides, still in development until then, are here.
My Toolkit web page dedicated to the subject is here.
My first post. My name is Chuck (make the checks payable to Charles, please). I have recently moved to the family-friendly city of Huntington, West Virginia. I work at Marshall University in the Computing Services department. I’m a 2002 graduate of The George Washington University School of Business and Public Management where I earned a Master of Science in Information Systems Technology.
Okay, here we are on Tuesday morning. My beloved October baseball is over and I’m looking forward to getting back to work. Sticking to my intended theme…
Information Technology: I want to share one of the more helpful articles I’ve read in a while: “Make Windows Work Better.” As Windows XP celebrates its 1st birthday, PC Magazine provides 104 tips that contain something for everyone.
Today I finally got around to spending some quality time at TechRepublic. This is a great resource for anyone in the IT field. Check out their free electronic newsletters!
In response to an inquiry from one of our departments about purchasing a mid-range color printer, our recommended standard is the HP LaserJet 4600. The department was considering the Xerox Phaser 8200, but the Phaser 6200 gets a better rating than the 8200.
Higher Education: The West Virginia Governor’s Office of Technology has requested we review their 1300 page Information Technology Plan and submit any updates for Marshall. My colleagues and I are working on this since Friday and need our inputs ready by the end of this week.
Politics AND Humor: As I write this, a memorial service is being held in Minnesota for Democrat U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone, family, and staff who died in a plane crash. I know that many Americans pray for the Wellstone family. Democrats are there in force, including the Clintons…so also getting my attention tonight is the TV commercial featuring Sir Edmund Hillary who was the first man to reach the peak of Mount Everest. The commercial looks fresh, and the man doesn’t look that old to me, and that made me recall a controversy around another Hillary Clinton lie: that she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary. She was born six years before the event!
